Marco Arment

So if I'm feeling like I'm really pushing myself in a workout,

I can just quickly glance at the watch and I can see it does this nice like ring around the outside of like heart rate zones.

And you can customize those zones, which I found very nice.

So I was able to set like, you know, the of like the four or five zones that go around the face of the watch.

You know, they're color coded, you know, like red, yellow, green.

And I was able to set like where the boundaries are to match kind of, you know, what I want those to mean.

So I can tell, am I pushing myself, you know, as hard as I expect to be or want to be?

And I can adjust in response to that.

That was very nice.

And when doing these workouts, that's when I realized, oh, round is the right shape for fitness watches.

I get it now.

But I still maintain that round is not the right shape for smartwatches, where you need to be reading text frequently, like from notifications.

But now I understand round was nice for a lot of these things.

It isn't always ideal, but it was nice for a lot of these things, including that kind of radial display of the workout.

The way the screen is designed... And I felt this way about the Garmin, too, to an extent, although I didn't get too much into customization of the Garmin.

But the way the screen is designed...

it makes it obvious that like these watches are designed by people for sports and activities and,

Whereas the Apple Watch, even like Apple's workout app, it's designed by graphic designers to make it look pretty.

But a lot of times the functionality is not quite there.

Like with Apple's workout app, I often have trouble like distinguishing what the different numbers are.