Apple Watch vs Garmin: Why I Switched. — Transcript

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1. 0:00okay let's be real if you are an iPhone
2. 0:02user if you're in the Apple ecosystem
3. 0:04and you're maybe looking to get a
4. 0:05smartwatch do some activity tracking
5. 0:07Health tracking and possibly get some
6. 0:09notifications on your wrist you're
7. 0:11probably going with the Apple watch
8. 0:14which makes sense Apple's ecosystem is
9. 0:16pretty great and when you fall into
10. 0:18Apple's Walled Garden Of Products it
11. 0:20becomes kind of out of the ordinary to
12. 0:22consider anything other than the Apple
13. 0:24watch but what if I told you that for
14. 0:26the past couple of months not only have
15. 0:27I been testing a thirdparty alternative
16. 0:30but in the end actually endend up
17. 0:32preferring it and completely switching
18. 0:34over to it leaving my Apple watch Ultra
19. 0:36to sit in the drawer collecting dust
20. 0:38these are five reasons why I switched
21. 0:40over to Garmin despite being an Apple
22. 0:41user and why you might want to consider
23. 0:44doing so as well let's get into it now
24. 0:46the watch I have here is called the
25. 0:47Garmin epics Pro Gen 2 it's one of
26. 0:49garmin's Flagship do everything watches
27. 0:51and pretty much directly competes with
28. 0:53the Apple watch Ultra they both feature
29. 0:55bright OLED displays are built with
30. 0:57titanium and sapphire crystal glass and
31. 1:00this year with the updated Phoenix 8
32. 1:02which replaces this watch you'll even
33. 1:03get die functionality and some other
34. 1:05smart features which the Apple watch
35. 1:07Ultra also has so with so many things in
36. 1:10common why did I go with the Garmin over
37. 1:12the Apple watch the first reason is
38. 1:14going to be user experience now on the
39. 1:16Garmin even though it does have a
40. 1:18perfectly functioning touchcreen you can
41. 1:19actually use this watch completely with
42. 1:22the buttons sort of acts like a TV
43. 1:24remote so you have your up and down as
44. 1:26you can see I'm sort of cycling through
45. 1:28these menus you have your select
46. 1:30and then you have your back button right
47. 1:32here now the real world benefit of using
48. 1:35buttons as opposed to a touch screen
49. 1:37like on the Apple watch Ultra is let's
50. 1:39say you're in water like if you're
51. 1:41swimming or you're around water like
52. 1:43doing dishes probably something that's a
53. 1:45little bit more common is you're doing a
54. 1:47workout maybe you're running and your
55. 1:49hands are sweaty in all of those
56. 1:50scenarios you can still do exactly what
57. 1:53you would want to do on this watch
58. 1:55whereas on the Apple watch Ultra if you
59. 1:57have gloves on if your hands are wet
60. 1:59good luck trying to do anything on that
61. 2:01watch because the way that it's set up
62. 2:03you really have to use the touchscreen
63. 2:05something else I really love about this
64. 2:07watch is the customizability with
65. 2:09shortcuts so if I press and hold the top
66. 2:12right button I actually get to my alarms
67. 2:15I've also set up the top right and the
68. 2:16left middle button to a stopwatch and
69. 2:20then if I want to get to Spotify I can
70. 2:22just press and hold this button and it
71. 2:24opens up my
72. 2:26playlists now the second reason why I
73. 2:28switch to a Garmin is is because of the
74. 2:30routes and map support this Garmin comes
75. 2:34straight out of the box with offline
76. 2:36worldwide maps with Road information
77. 2:39Trail information even ski resort
78. 2:41information golf courses and it's just
79. 2:44all available as soon as you take it out
80. 2:46of the box I truly mean it when I say
81. 2:48that if you have this watch on your
82. 2:50wrist you will not get lost and this
83. 2:51doesn't just benefit those hardcore
84. 2:53adventurers who are doing their own
85. 2:55thing like going off the beaten path
86. 2:57this also benefits you if you're running
87. 2:59cycling or doing any activity where you
88. 3:01might want to follow a certain route one
89. 3:03of my favorite things about the Garmin
90. 3:05is that it supports the universal GPX
91. 3:08file which you can download from all
92. 3:10Trails stva or literally any other
93. 3:12popular routing app or website and then
94. 3:15load it onto this watch through Garmin
95. 3:17Connect and then you'll get turn BYT
96. 3:19turn navigation to make sure you're
97. 3:21staying on that route if you go off path
98. 3:23the watch will actually reroute you and
99. 3:26the GPX file also contains elevation
100. 3:28data giving you a visual elevation
101. 3:30profile of your entire routee and some
102. 3:32really meaningful stats like how much
103. 3:34climbing you have left so you can better
104. 3:36adjust your effort levels depending on
105. 3:38what's coming up Garmin also has a
106. 3:40really comprehensive mapping software
107. 3:42allowing you to create different courses
108. 3:44and routes and also gives you heat maps
109. 3:46of the most traveled roads and realtime
110. 3:48elevation data now Apple did release a
111. 3:50very basic routing tool with watch OS 11
112. 3:54and iOS 18 however the difference
113. 3:56between these two systems is night and
114. 3:58day and there's a lot that Apple has to
115. 4:00catch up on before it can even get close
116. 4:02to what Garmin has
117. 4:05currently now reason number three is
118. 4:07going to be the personal training and
119. 4:08the coaching that you get for free with
120. 4:11this watch so every morning your watch
121. 4:13will give you a summary of your day
122. 4:15including upcoming events weather how
123. 4:18you slept and how your body is
124. 4:19recovering from potential workouts but
125. 4:22what's really cool here is that it'll
126. 4:23actually recommend you a workout based
127. 4:26off of how you're doing and actually if
128. 4:28I go into my my calendar glance anything
129. 4:31that's in yellow is actually going to be
130. 4:33a suggested workout so I can actually
131. 4:35click in here and on Monday I can either
132. 4:38do 30 minutes of running or an hour of
133. 4:42cycling you can see after that 1H hour
134. 4:44training on Tuesday it's actually a rest
135. 4:47day like how cool is that just to have a
136. 4:50personal trainer built into your wrist
137. 4:52to recommend you workouts based off of
138. 4:55how your body is doing I think that is
139. 4:58just a really cool feature that they
140. 4:59include for free that the Apple watch
141. 5:02doesn't really have an answer to now
142. 5:04I've already talked a bit about the
143. 5:05Garmin Connect app but if we just hop
144. 5:07into here go to training and planning
145. 5:10and then tap on workouts and find a
146. 5:13workout you'll see that there are also a
147. 5:15ton of built-in workouts that you can
148. 5:18explore here so let's just say we wanted
149. 5:20to do leg day um this is for people who
150. 5:23are also into strength training or
151. 5:25lifting if I save this to my workouts
152. 5:27and then right here in the top right
153. 5:29you'll see this send to device button if
154. 5:30I click my epics Pro watch it'll
155. 5:33actually send that workout to my watch
156. 5:35um we can actually scroll down here to
157. 5:38leg day and we'll get a really detailed
158. 5:40view of what exactly we need to do here
159. 5:43as well as a diagram of how to do that
160. 5:47actual workout like look at this guy
161. 5:49he's getting deep he has good form let's
162. 5:52go to another one so barbell straight
163. 5:54leg deadlift 10 reps this is how you do
164. 5:58it he's going down and he's going up
165. 6:00fast also I think that it's cool that
166. 6:02it's not just for strength training like
167. 6:04if you wanted to do some stretching like
168. 6:06a full body recovery flow or if you
169. 6:08wanted to do some yoga um there's
170. 6:11something for everyone here and again
171. 6:14it's all built in there's no
172. 6:15subscription just this is just included
173. 6:18with the watch now by the way if you are
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209. 7:29now we're getting into the last two
210. 7:31reasons of why I switched to this watch
211. 7:32and the fourth reason it's probably one
212. 7:35of the biggest it's going to be battery
213. 7:37life now with this specific watch I'm
214. 7:39getting 6 days of battery life and so
215. 7:41you're getting 6 days with the always on
216. 7:44display on but if I actually turn the
217. 7:46always on display off now we're getting
218. 7:4917 days of battery life which is insane
219. 7:53uh the Apple watch Ultra gets 2 days
220. 7:55like I don't know how Apple's on the
221. 7:5610th Generation of the Apple watch and
222. 7:59still
223. 8:00they're stuck on an all day battery life
224. 8:02so what can you do with a 6-day battery
225. 8:05life well you can take it on a weekend
226. 8:06trip without even bring the charger
227. 8:08that's been great if you do a really
228. 8:10long activity you're not worried about
229. 8:12the watch dying also just on the
230. 8:14day-to-day stuff if you want to use your
231. 8:16watch for sleep tracking you don't have
232. 8:19to throw it on the charger before you go
233. 8:20to bed just to make sure you have enough
234. 8:22juice to last throughout the night there
235. 8:24is zero battery anxiety with this watch
236. 8:27and you can even go longer if you get
237. 8:28one of the other ones with solar so yeah
238. 8:31definitely that is one of the biggest
239. 8:32reasons why I moved away from the Apple
240. 8:34watch but then the fifth and final
241. 8:36reason of why I switched to the Garmin
242. 8:38is because of the built-in flashlight so
243. 8:42that's right built into the top of this
244. 8:44watch is an LED and you can even change
245. 8:48that to a red LED if you wanted to be
246. 8:50more Stealth at night or if you're out
247. 8:52camping I've definitely been using this
248. 8:54flashlight way more than I thought I
249. 8:55would just for finding things at night
250. 8:58or if I get out of bed and I want to go
251. 8:59to the restroom can simply just double
252. 9:01tap on my wrist and also one thing that
253. 9:03I love is all the different effects that
254. 9:05you can add on here so there's blink and
255. 9:07probably my favorite is the blitz one
256. 9:10which I've actually used at night if I'm
257. 9:12caught out after dark and going on a run
258. 9:14uh just allows for cars to see me way
259. 9:16easier is it Overkill to have a
260. 9:18flashlight on a watch probably do I use
261. 9:21it all the time yes but yeah those are
262. 9:24the five reasons of why I switched from
263. 9:27my Apple watch to the Garin but should
264. 9:30you switch I think that all comes down
265. 9:32to what you prioritize and value in a
266. 9:34watch for people who simply view the
267. 9:36watch as a tool who want to take their
268. 9:38fitness journey a little bit more
269. 9:40seriously the longer battery life the
270. 9:42routing and mapping software as well as
271. 9:43the more robust user experience really
272. 9:46makes this watch the ultimate tool that
273. 9:48you can rely on 24/7 you might not be
274. 9:50able to take calls or reply to messages
275. 9:52or control your smart home but it still
276. 9:54is smart enough to connect to your
277. 9:57calendar to let you know of your
278. 9:58upcoming events send notifications to
279. 10:00your watch and I think one of my
280. 10:02favorite features is you can still ping
281. 10:04your smartphone from your watch let's
282. 10:06say if you lost your smartphone uh you
283. 10:08can still ping it with the Bluetooth
284. 10:10connection if it's within
285. 10:12[Music]
286. 10:14range so yeah personally the fact that
287. 10:16this isn't as smart as my Apple watch
288. 10:18Ultra doesn't really bother me I think
289. 10:20those trade-offs are well worth it and
290. 10:22at least for me this is the better
291. 10:25Smartwatch but what do you think did I
292. 10:27make some good points about the Garmin
293. 10:29and what do you prioritize when it comes
294. 10:31to having a good Smartwatch let me know
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