Marco Arment

Again, because it's so light...

and it did a perfectly good job of tracking the things I needed to track on that walk, I was really very impressed by it.

As a smartwatch,

It's terrible.

All of these devices are terrible as smartwatches for iPhone users.

I mean, maybe it's better on Android, but for iPhone users, I wouldn't recommend anything except an Apple Watch for a smartwatch.

If you want general purpose smartwatchiness, you want notifications to pop up on your wrist, maybe you want to have like a nice watch face that has a lot of complications, maybe that tells you useful things throughout the day.

You want to see your calendar.

You want to do all that stuff.

The Apple Watch is the one you should get.

If you want kind of the best generalist, you want maybe music features, you want cellular, for all of those kind of like, if any of those edge case or if any of those use cases are important to you, you want an Apple Watch.

If you only want to have one watch in your life, you want an Apple Watch.

If you want easy charging on trips, there's so many things.

The Apple Watch is the best answer to so many of those things.

If you want Siri, if you want to be able to remotely unlock your Mac or your phone with it, so many advantages to the Apple Watch.

But if you want a watch for workouts and taking on long treks like this or similar kind of extreme sporting uses...

I think the Suunto is better.

But that's a huge amount of ifs.

It is a much more primitive device in all those other ways that allows it to be a better sports watch in a lot of ways.

Again, it's also half the price and very light.