Apple unveils watch that has a button that takes splits and announces it will only cost $799. Apple Watch Ultra is here!!!

Hahahaha this is funny. If you can’t get thru a long run (including a marathon) with an Apple Watch then you’re just running too slow. It has plenty of battery (with room to spare) to run long distances up to and beyond a full marathon.

If you want a cellular connection for emergencies, you could use the Forerunner 945 LTE. It doesn't have full two-way messaging capability, but you can share a livetrack link with your contacts automatically, and they can send you text messages. You can also call emergency services from it.

Setting aside the Apple Watch's ability to send texts and make calls, it's a vastly inferior device for training. There isn't even a good livetracking option similar to Garmin's version.

The thing that disappointed me the most about the Apple Watch (I owned an LTE version of the previous one) was how little software there is for it, and how even less of the software made decent use of the LTE connection. Developers don't bother making apps that can leverage the LTE connection because very few users are ever away from their phone.

I know a lot of people at Apple (Cupertino, not your local store), and they always tell me how astonishing the engineering of the Apple Watch is. The thing is, I totally believe them. But the problem is that nobody has really figured out what to do with all that capability. Ask the average Apple Watch user what they do with their watch, and your Garmin will probably do it all. Notifications, time, weather, payments, activity tracking? That's basically the list for most people.

Pockets? Don't you have hands? I have two, I only need one of them to carry my phone - on the rare occasion I carry a focking phone on a run.