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Alleged First Look at Apple Watch X / Series 10 With 2-Inch Display
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It's totally ridiculous to use inches as a measurement on a watch, but I guess it's an American site...
For those of us that are competition athletes, there’s very little Apple can add, with current tech, to make a new device more compelling. Can we use better and more accurate heart rate monitor? Sure, but you’ll need a chest strap, barring some new tech.
What would take it to the next level for both endurance athletes and bodybuilders is accurate glucose monitoring. That would be a game changer. However, that is probably years away. For now, we use CGM patches.
“Never” is something really short sighted to say. Maybe your life expectancy is not much longer, but Apple Glasses has the opportunity to be transformational, along with improvements to the Apple Watch (see above). We won’t get there this decade, but Apple has done many great things lately from the M series, to the advances in software, in many product lines, they are at the top of their game with an exciting pipeline over the next 2-4 years.
I was recently having drinks with a SVP at a major semiconductor manufacturer, he was explaining that the pipeline of what will be possible in less than 5 years, will change the world. The power and efficiency will make possible things we only dreamed, by the end of the decade, and Apple is (for now), leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. So incredible is the pipeline, that they’re worried about the future of UX designers who are unprepared!
Yeah they would need to make bezels smaller etc. on the Ultra 3 so it's still the biggest
I want it. Gimme. It’s gotta have an old CRT television screen in it tooMore like
It's the international standard for screen sizes. You don't call a 24" screen a 61cm screen do you?
The dimensions are listed in millimetres, and that's on an American site
Apple sensors have been very accurate for me. Most of the metrics (along with new ones coming) are probably enough for my running needs.
For me, it's all about the UI. There's just something about tactile buttons that just make it easier to navigate when sweaty and moving quickly during a run/race.
I'm hopeful with rumours of more buttons on the iPhone 16, that this will carry over to the Apple Watch. Until then, it's Garmin/Coros and maybe the new Suunto Race S.
But they’re not. Technology still isn’t advancing fast enough for the new products to have a substantial technological advance every single year. These days they really just do external design changes to make the previous models feel old fashioned and outdated (planned obsolescence, triggers some additional sales) and basic ‘improvements’ on the software every year.
„Substantial“ is very subjective. Fact is that there were hardware changes in the Watch every single year. Another fact is that people, for obvious psychological reasons, don‘t like to buy „outdated“ tech products, so a refresh, however big or small, will trigger sales. Third fact is that it is extremely hard to cram so much tech into such a tiny device, so give Apple a f‘ing break.
Hardware changes are NOT technological improvements, and the power of the processor hardly improves from one year to the other (at least not enough to be noticeable to end users such as the fanboys who get hyped and buy every year). Changing from round edges to flat edges -like they did from the iphone 11 to the iphone 12- or making the screen slightly larger (AW series 4 to 5), which are the most visible changes every year, are only intended to make previous models look old fashioned and use that psychological effect to trigger sales to idiotic non-tech savvy fanboys. Apple is more a fashion company that a technology company these days. From a technology standpoint, they definitely don’t need a yearly update cycle for any of their hardware and software. And they’ve shown us that it’s possible to live without it, as they now have longer upgrade cycles for ipads and macs.
let's wait and see... this isn't 100% certain its a CAD drawing of the new watch. apple has ALWAYS changed the physical design slightly every 3 years since the very first Apple Watch was released... its due to do so again this year and being the Series 10 it makes sense to do it as an anniversary. now there are limits to how radical it can look, apple will never ditch the iconic square shape, but when its all said and done it should look at least a bit different from the Series 7-9 which have been the same.
So?
People who want the latest and greatest can buy the latest and greatest.
People who purchase a product and hold it can purchase the latest product with newest updates and hold it.
The only people who seem to lose out here are the people who are obsessed with buying the newest gear no matter what. That's a problem of their own, it's not reasonable to expect Apple to hold their hand and say "No, this product isn't for you".
I am so weird out by this claim of a delayed release. The same thing was talked about last year already and it dos not seem to make any sense for Apple to break what has worked for them to match some kind of nostalgia date which they are very outspoken about to not focusing On in their company. „Industry expert“.
Man I'm glad you posted this. I'm on a series 6 and mulling over whether to upgrade this year or replace my battery as its at 80% and strugglign with my workouts and active days. I just don't know about the size of the ultra, but I need that battery life, hopefully they can reduce the bezels and keep the screen size and I think I'll get it.
Yes, most of the time they actually are. Watch 2 got a faster chip, a brighter screen, GPS and became more water proof. Watch 3 got a faster chip and a cellular modem. Watch 4 got a faster chip, a much higher screen-to-body ratio and fall detection. Watch 5 got an always-on display and a compass. Watch 6 got a faster chip and blood oxygen measuring. Watch 7 got a higher screen-to-body ratio, fast charging and became more dust and shatter proof. Watch 8 got body temperature measuring and crash detection (in the same year, Ultra 1 got dual GPS and water depth measuring). Watch 9 got a faster chip (which enabled double tap and on-device Siri) and a brighter screen (while Ultra 2 got an even brighter screen than S9).
So: Hardware changes, every year, that improved the functionality of the Watch. Not every new function will be equally important to every porential buyer, but no-one forces you (or even expects you) to buy a new Watch every year, either.
This is what is actually awesome about Apple hardware compared to, say, Google. Once they said yes to a device category (which they rarely do), they do the hard work and iterate; incrementally, of course (because that is just the nature of tech 99% of the time), but also relentlessly. Google just loses focus/interest and scraps the whole thing after 2 or 3 versions.
The Apple Watch is just a bulbous rounded slab which makes it look like… a bulbous rounded slab. It makes it appear even bigger than it is. What real watches have are cases that incorporate different design elements to break things up visually. Lugs, bezels, curves, tapering, multiple materials, etc.
(…and it is a large watch to begin with. The current small size is now about the same as the original large size.)
Looks at Apple Watch, notoriously devoid of bezels, curves, tapers, and other design elements.
“Real watch” people are a bit fussy aren’t they?