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All-Glass Apple Watch – A First Step Toward Jony Ive's Dream iPhone?
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I've never had a crown fail, or know anyone that has had one fail, but I have absolutely trashed the sides (and screen) of my watch with scratches and deep nicks. Additionally, the crown works with gloves and wet/sweaty hands. The touchscreen is completely useless when wet, so I doubt the sides would be any different.
No thank you.
Why was Apple allowed to get a patent on a non-existent product / technology? Can I patent a cancer cure and get royalties in the future?
I don’t know…. An all glass iPhone may be more fragile than current ones, and in the other hand, I don’t see a practical use further than aesthetics. I’d rather prefer Apple to focus in develop the best quality foldables of the market instead of wasting its time on this.
That’s the thing with Jony Ive. He probably should have just been an artist rather than trying to make functional objects. He needed Steve Jobs to temper him a little and say “yeah that’s beautiful but how am I supposed to hold it?” Etc.
Even then he clearly didn’t say that enough but since then it only got worse.
I also don’t find aluminum to be a premium material. I mean I am disappointed to read the rumors about Apple saving money to go with aluminum on new iPhones and eliminating the titanium which has been amazing in my experience. Dropped my iPhone without a case at least ten to fifteen times and never a scratch. Dropped my nothing phone once and it has a scratch on the side. My stainless and aluminum iPhones were always that way. Always had dings from drops. Steel was far better than aluminum.
So glass is a big reason not to buy an Apple Watch. If you can’t afford the sapphire crystal versions, not worth the risk. The last one I bought was a S7 but never again. Wearing it on my ankle was pointless. Didn’t like notifications. Wear Swiss and Japanese made watches on my wrist.
Only feature I like is the tracking of health data. I wanted an Apple Ring but instead we got failed Siri, failed AI, ridiculous Vision Pro, CarPlay that isn’t happening and an Apple Car. All wastes of money by a CEO with no vision other than making the top 1% of the shareholders wealthier.
Sorta; such an idea is too broad, though. You don't have to produce a product to patent it, but you do have to have specific details, methods and/or designs.
What's next? An article explaining how wonderfully Jony Ive's ideal could be achieved if only Apple were to release an Apple Watch made of unobtanium?
Honestly, if Apple would come out with a competitor to the Fitbit Inspire I would jump on it. I like wearing a mechanical watch on my left wrist and a basic tracker on my right. Just give my notifications, health tracking and multiple days on a charge I would be a happy man.
Oh and don't make it out of glass.
Oh and don't make it out of glass.
Touch interaction screens are fine for iPads.
I get the whole no moving parts thing, but I prefer my watch with physical buttons.
Frustrating when accidental touches mess up your workouts. And new Lock Screen makes it more cumbersome.
I get the whole no moving parts thing, but I prefer my watch with physical buttons.
Frustrating when accidental touches mess up your workouts. And new Lock Screen makes it more cumbersome.
This rumor is dubious, at best. However, I sure hope Apple is more focused on new health tracking features such as: more accurate heart rate during exercise, blood pressure, glucose monitoring and increasing the efficiency slightly by adding an hour or two to battery life.
I wish we could just charge it with USB-C since everything else is lol
I'd rather see Apple figure out how to bring microLED displays to the watch. Forget "all glass".
Me neither, but that is just anecdotal. If Apple ever pursues this, it would certainly be because they see enough cases of mechanical failure to make it worthwhile to eliminate.
I would assume the sides would be sapphire crystal, which is very scratch-resistant.
Personally I find the crown generally too small/fiddly to engage with gloves (the Ultra crown is a little bigger, though). Also, the double-tap gesture together with a (presumably) pressure-sensitive Watch side would cover 100% of crown actions and also work with gloves and wet hands.
I don't think there's room for a port on a device this small though.
Uh, that's actually a fairly easy "problem" to solve and design for. Dead pixels have been used on touch devices since touch devices have been a thing. You simply let the display fully wrap the device, maximizing the overall visual footprint, while also designating specific pixels around said perimeter as dead to touch sensitivity. Still 'see', but can't 'touch'. Easy cheesy ....
Apple support options for iPhone glass repairs:
- Cracked screen (front only)
- Back glass damage
- Cracked screen and back glass damage
Apple Watch:
- Apple Watch
