Okay, sure, watches are bumped and scraped sometimes, but who constantly drops their watch? It's literally strapped to your wrist.Watches are constantly bumped, scraped, and dropped in daily wear, ...
Hopefully something with high thermal conductivity, otherwise it's going to always feel cold. Both titanium and sapphire crystal have pretty great thermal conductivity and quickly match your skin temp. Glass has terrible thermal conductivity.There is precedent for an "all-glass" design, with MB&F and Richard Mille for example. However, those are using machined sapphire and cost somewhere deep in the six figures, if not seven. Curious to see what material Apple would actually go with to make this cost-effective. The economies of scale will be different, sure, but there's no getting around the difficulty of such a thing.
There is precedent for an "all-glass" design, with MB&F and Richard Mille for example. However, those are using machined sapphire and cost somewhere deep in the six figures, if not seven. Curious to see what material Apple would actually go with to make this cost-effective. The economies of scale will be different, sure, but there's no getting around the difficulty of such a thing.
That’s the ticket, laddie. 😊“Apple would need to develop a type of glass that's much stronger than what we're used to”
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Me too. My favourite iPhones were the ones that didn’t have glass backs: the OG, the 3G, the 5C and the beautiful jet black iPhone 7.Am I the only one who doesn’t find glass to be a particularly pleasant material? I never understood the desire for phones to be “a slab of glass”.
For me it’s the 5/5S/SE1. They do have a bit of glass at the top and bottom, but the main part is aluminum. I wouldn’t mind plastic or rubber either, although those may be more problematic with heat dissipation nowadays.Me too. My favourite iPhones were the ones that didn’t have glass backs: the OG, the 3G, the 5C and the beautiful jet black iPhone 7.
I think you have that the other way around: better thermal conductivity allows a touched object to conduct your body heat away from the point of contact, which is why room-temperature carpet feels warmer than a hard floor when you first step out of bed in the morning. Sensation in steady-state skin contact is probably a tad more complicated, but there's still a limited amount of heat-sinking in action, and anecdotally metal watch bands usually feel cooler than polymer ones.Hopefully something with high thermal conductivity, otherwise it's going to always feel cold. Both titanium and sapphire crystal have pretty great thermal conductivity and quickly match your skin temp. Glass has terrible thermal conductivity.