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I found it puzzling when Apple announced this partnership at their last keynote. I can’t think of any other examples of third party companies being entrusted with core functionality for the Apple Watch (or any other Apple device). To add insult to injury, that functionality is locked away behind a subscription-based paywall. The developer absolutely deserves to be compensated for their work, but this is a perfect example of an app that should be a one-time purchase. It has become virtually impossible to buy software on the App Store. I find this trend deeply worrisome and I find it absolutely abhorrent that we are being asked to pay a subscription fee for what should be core Apple Watch functionality.

Installed the app, signed up for an account and completed the setup. Then successfully synced with the watch. First time starting the watch app it showed me the application for about a second before it displayed “Sign up on iPhone”. The iPhone app is signed in, says it’s synced with the watch, manual syncs does nothing to get the watch app to work. Restarted the watch and then it again shows the application for about a second before getting back to “Sign up on iPhone”. This is not a great first impression for something as critical as a dive watch app, wouldn’t want this to happen underwater when my health might depend on this.

Let me preface this by saying the app is great. It has all the functionality you need from a dive computer, without the air integration. If you’re willing to pay the monthly or annual fee it’s a fantastic app. But the fee is the issue. If you want to scuba dive with it you don’t have any option but to purchase a membership. You can only snorkel on the free version. It’s disappointing to see that there’s not an option for diving for free, even if it was a basic interface. Looks like I won’t be replacing my EON Core any time soon.