Apple's Beddit 3 Sleep Monitor 'Sold Out,' Suggesting It's Been Discontinued

I guess they put it to bed.

Sleep tracking is a farce because you already know if you slept well or not, and these things do not improve sleep.

I had undiagnosed sleep apnea for quite a few years. I went to bed on time, got up on time, and was still dragging during the day, for a then-unknown reason.

Tell me again that a device that measures quality of sleep is a farce.

Sleep tracking is a farce because you already know if you slept well or not, and these things do not improve sleep. It's not like they offer recommendations that will improve the quality of sleep other then the standard do not drink caffeine, or go to bed on time or the other usual cliches. The idea that someone needs an app or device that measures sleep "performance" is ridiculous. If it could be used to improve sleep, sure, like step counts get people motivated more to exercise and move around that improves health, but a device or app telling you you didn't sleep well when you are struggling to get out of bed in the morning is just dumb and in many cases the "anxiety" of ensuring the device will properly report your sleep is enough to keep people restless at night. I think in this case Apple is right in not building sleep tracking into Apple Watch. I have had sleep tracking on two products already and the result was a completely lack of any useful information other then to know what I already know, when I wake up feeling like ****, or wake up feeling great, I don't need an app to tell me the obvious. Sleep tracking is another "smart hairbrush" kind of health device that sound cool until you waste money on them and realize they are completely useless.

It's pretty arrogant to just say sleep tracking is a farce "because you already know if you slept well." The entire post is just an uneducated opinion disguised as fact. This product is very useful if you need to monitor your sleep, see how caffeine or certain noise levels may affect you, see what times of the night you tend to fall out of (or fall into) deep sleep, and so on. Once you have data (i.e. via quality sleep tracking), you can make correlations with particular habits or environmental factors. There may be useless sleep tracking products, but sleep tracking in and of itself can be very important as it relates to managing certain health conditions.

I'm getting so tired of huge companies buying smaller ones with cool products, then killing those products and not creating anything similar or better.

My most heartbreaking example is Sparrow. I STILL miss that E-mail client. It was amazing. And Google bought the company and murdered the app in cold blood.

Sleep tracking is a farce because you already know if you slept well or not, and these things do not improve sleep. It's not like they offer recommendations that will improve the quality of sleep other then the standard do not drink caffeine, or go to bed on time or the other usual cliches.

The idea that someone needs an app or device that measures sleep "performance" is ridiculous. If it could be used to improve sleep, sure, like step counts get people motivated more to exercise and move around that improves health, but a device or app telling you you didn't sleep well when you are struggling to get out of bed in the morning is just dumb and in many cases the "anxiety" of ensuring the device will properly report your sleep is enough to keep people restless at night.

I think in this case Apple is right in not building sleep tracking into Apple Watch. I have had sleep tracking on two products already and the result was a completely lack of any useful information other then to know what I already know, when I wake up feeling like ****, or wake up feeling great, I don't need an app to tell me the obvious.

Sleep tracking is another "smart hairbrush" kind of health device that sound cool until you waste money on them and realize they are completely useless.

Says the person that doesn’t have sleep problems.

Sleep tracking is a farce because you already know if you slept well or not, and these things do not improve sleep. .

Seriously, you don't know what you're talking about.

One simple application of this technology improved my sleep without any advice or input from my part. It simply tracked my REM cycles while I slept and woke me up in the morning gradually at the end of a sleep cycle, rather than abruptly inside of it. That alone is worth the price of admission.

Whether you wake up groggy and/or disoriented depends entirely on when in your sleep cycle you were awaken. If you awaken inside of a REM cycle, you are in the deepest of sleep and it takes your brain some time to adjust. If you've finished a cycle and are awaken gradually after that, and before you go into REM, then you will wake up refreshed. You cannot manually control your REM cycle or calculate it to land on when you set your alarm. But a machine with knowledge of your REM cycle can.

Further, while I didn't care to find out the data about my sleep, that data can be useful to feed to machine learning to identify patterns in your sleep and build a personalized sleep profile that can give you timed advice on exactly when to go to sleep and can autonomously control things like temperature through HomeKit to give you ideal sleeping conditions.

No reason to assume that an Apple Watch couldn't receive data from a sleep monitor while in nightstand mode.

This is my bet too. Apple is developing accessories for AppleWatch. Now that LTE is out of the way, that's their next big play. When the next AppleWatch is announced, it'll be announced with an official accessory program and Apple will be launching with a glucose bracelet and a sleep monitor alongside a screen full of third party partners.