Apple Watch Ultra 3

If you’re really into fitness and/or min-maxing your own stats. Honestly, it can create a bit of an obsessive loop once you get deep into it.

Whoop is more accurate though.

Is it? Across what metric?

And most likely still junk

No, the Apple Watch is basically best of breed in terms of sleep and heart rate accuracy.

The Whoop is like 90% accurate compared to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SzUDTBK-i0

It's just trade-offs: if you're using the Whoop, you don't want a screen and you like two weeks battery life.

Not really. Also if I’m going to wear something on my wrist all day I want it to do more than just record some stats.

> min-maxing your own stats

So many people fall in this category, but a lot of them seem to min-max their gear more than anything. I know casual runners with $400 carbon plate performance shoes, I run with them, in my $7 decathlon shoes, unless you're paid to run or aim for a record I really don't see the point, especially since these thing barely last a few month of serious running. Same for hikers with $3k of ultralight gear, they spend more time reading reviews and flexing their 0.1g hacks than actually hiking.

There is a huge overlap between tech nerds and "gear hobbyists", I assume because they have too much money for their own good.

There’s a study that pitted different devices against each other. The whoop was more accurate. At least a few years ago it was