The Apple Watch Extremely simply grew to become somewhat bit extra tempting for the scuba diving neighborhood because of the brand new Oceanic+ app (opens in new tab) from Huish Outdoor. The app unlocks the scuba diving potential of the Apple Watch Extremely, turning it into a private dive laptop in your wrist and making use of its depth gauge and water temperature sensors.
Sure, I do know what you’re considering – lastly! In case you’re an Apple Watch Extremely proprietor I guess day-after-day you’ve been trying on the clunky but feature-packed hunk of pricey steel in your wrist, with its just about unscratchable sapphire crystal face, and considering, ‘Gee, when will I be capable of go scuba diving with this factor, Apple?’
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Let’s be sincere, like most individuals who personal an Apple Watch Extremely, you utilize about 10% of its performance. To procure it just because it was the largest, baddest, costliest Apple Watch you would get, and also you simply wished to indicate off. That’s OK, I’m positive that’s why everyone else obtained one, too.
However actually this new app is simply additional proof for why an Apple Watch Extremely can be fully wasted on me. I don’t go scuba diving, I don’t climb mountains or trek throughout deserts. I’m not an endurance athlete, outside adventurer or an ocean explorer. The truth is, I’m nonetheless making do with a Sequence 5 Apple Watch from just a few years in the past that I haven’t felt the necessity to improve.
The sixth era iPod Nano
Excited about the Apple Watch and the way far it’s come from its humble beginnings jogged my memory concerning the time when individuals used to promote watch straps that fitted the outdated 2010 iPod Nano (sixth era) — the one which appeared a bit like an Apple Watch display screen, however was very sq. compared. The 2010 iPod Nano may play music by some related headphones, and had 18 totally different watch faces. When you hooked up a watch strap to it, it grew to become the de facto first ever Apple Watch, lengthy earlier than Apple truly launched a watch.
I keep in mind seeing an iPod Nano on a wrist strap for the primary time and considering it appeared fairly cool, whereas now it seems like a little bit of a joke. Who would have thought that 13 years on from the iPod Nano we’d have, principally, a cool-looking Apple laptop on our wrists that can be utilized 40 metres beneath sea degree as a diving laptop. It makes me marvel the place the Apple Watch goes to take us within the subsequent 13 years, and can it make at present’s Apple Watches look as old-fashioned as a sixth gen iPod Nano hooked up to a watch strap?
Who is aware of, however to these about to go scuba diving with their Apple Watch Extremely, I salute you. I simply gained’t be becoming a member of you.
