O novo Apple Watch acabou de sair — e continua a perder para o Garmin nestas três coisas
Fiquei entusiasmado durante cinco minutos com o novo Apple Watch. Depois lembrei-me porque continuo a usar um Garmin: bateria, botões e uma bracelete que resiste todas as manhãs.
New Apple Watch, same problems
Apple's latest watch just launched, and I got excited for about five minutes. Then I remembered why I still reach for a Garmin every morning. Three things haven't changed.
1. Battery life
Apple's headline number keeps creeping up — Series 11 pushed to roughly 24 hours, up from the 18-hour ceiling Apple lived with for a decade. That's real progress. It's also still a number measured in hours.
A watch you charge every night is a watch that isn't on your wrist while you sleep. My Garmin runs for days to weeks depending on the model, which means it's still there at 3 AM recording HRV, sleep stages and resting heart rate — every single night, without me thinking about it once. That's the whole point of a health tracker, and it's the one thing an overnight charging habit quietly breaks.
2. Buttons
Apple has one physical shortcut worth mentioning — the Action button — and it's still Ultra-only. Every other Apple Watch, the ones most people actually buy, is touchscreen-first.
That's a real problem mid-run. A small touchscreen with sweaty fingers, rain on the glass, or gloves on in winter is genuinely hard to use reliably. My Garmin has physical buttons for lap, start/stop and back on every model that matters for training — you can operate it by feel, without looking, without a dry finger.
3. The default watch band
Brand new watch, same small annoyance. Apple's standard bands still don't use a normal clasp — you're wrestling with a loop-through-loop system that's fiddly one-handed, first thing in the morning, half awake. Maybe it's just me, but I've never once thought "this is a good idea" while putting one on.
Garmin's quick-release pins and standard buckles are a five-second job, and most bands are swappable without tools.
None of this means Apple is bad
It's an excellent smartwatch, and if notifications, apps and a beautiful screen matter more to you than training data, it's a completely reasonable choice. But if you actually train, or you want your sleep tracked every night rather than most nights, these three things haven't moved.
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