Watching WWDC in realtime but looks like WatchOS 10 will have the ability to estimate FTP and connect to power meters for the cycling activity.

I’ve never used them (as I don’t really care for those features) but Garmin already has contactless on some (maybe even most?) of their watches - and they have music (spotify and others) on most of their watches these days. Admittedly it Garmin Pay support is pretty limited, depending on your count…

[image] colin_n: Admittedly it Garmin Pay support is pretty limited, depending on your country I think this is a good example of a regulatory challenge. I don’t think it is hard, but you need to scale to a lot of countries. Even Google falls way short of Apple, and Apple isn’t great either: r…

Yeah the payment problem is also that they need to go to every financial services provider individually to get them on board. Garmin have a lot of supported banks in the USA, but relatively few outside of that. They’ll never be able to compete with Apple in that space, simply because the brand recog…

Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried this FTP estimate on WatchOs 10 and compared that with TR AI FTP ? I saw a YouTube video (DesFit was the YouTuber) and his data were like 70W lower with Apple Watch FTP https://youtu.be/2Ficbhrt_hg?si=guekBM8CVxx9knbH (around 7:50 he compares FTPs with Garmi…

I 100% agree with this. I use an Apple watch 8 for Stryd running workouts either outdoors, or on a treadmill. Once planned workouts are pre loaded to my calendar, I just put my shoes on, touch the app on the watch and away I go, zero faff! Somethings like this for trainerroad workouts would be very…

Does this solve your concern? [image] Push TrainerRoad workouts to Apple Watch TrainerRoad Software Anyone else seen that post WatchOS 10 release today you can now push TrainerRoad workouts to an Apple Watch? Haven’t tried it yet but couldn’t see any mention of it in the …

I see the same as Des. TR has me around 305w, and Garmin around 290ish or so. Apple has me at 240w.

Someone should record a ramp test on the Apple Watch and report back.

And in this article a big difference like yours and Des is mentioned [image] The Pros and Cons of the New Cycling Updates on Apple WatchOS 10 What we learned over the past few weeks of testing Apple’s advanced data points and new cycling workout features. Plus, how the updates can inform…

I’ve done a Ramp test and Recorded it on the Apple Watch (I was 3 weeks ago and was using the Beta version of the software) and it came out 40 watts lower, my experience seems the same as others, well out

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