The Week #87: jamesvandyne.com

@pimoore My thought on this is Fitness+ is a nice throw in for everything else I get for the Premier plan. News+ falls in the same category.

@pimoore @skoobz yeah, this is the bummer part – you need the Apple Watch to use it. :(

@pimoore @skoobz well, good luck with that. I highly doubt that that will happen - unless the Apple Watch can be tethered to a portable battery to last the entire day with all those phone functions. :)

@pimoore I wanted to do cellular watch + ipad…but you have to pair/activate with a phone instead of ipad.

@JMaxB Apple Watch is a reasonable facsimile.

@pimoore I use Apple Fitness+ without an Apple Watch nearly every day. Works fine. You just don’t see your real-time metrics on screen.

@agilelisa @pimoore I think you might need the watch to activate Fitness+? My daughter uses it frequently without a watch, but the app only showed up when she briefly paired with an old watch we had lying around

@mroutley @pimoore Wow, that’s so strange! (that you need an Apple watch at least once to get Fitness+ to work) But it could be true as I used to wear an Awatch and I know I did Apple Fitness from this iPad then. I wear a Fitbit Sense currently because I participate in a COVID study and they gave it to me!