Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs. Apple Watch Ultra 3: Tracking Everything All the Time
THE SO WHAT
Incremental sensor and chip upgrades on the Watch Ultra line keep pushing continuous monitoring as the default—health, fitness, and safety apps can now assume denser, more reliable streams. If you build in this ecosystem, the opportunity is in higher-frequency, longitudinal use cases, not one-off metrics.
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