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Apple Announces New Apple Watch Sport Loop Bands Representing 22 Countries
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The team is officially known as the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team.
BOA decide to use the branding of Team GB, which is wholly inappropriate, and typical of english colonialism mentality.
No doubt they'd call it Team England if they thought they would get away with it.
Same goes with the Mexican band. I as an Italian like the Mexican band more than the actual Italian one. Even for the Italians it’s WAY too much blue
Um I know don’t people don‘t do this any more but you’re supposed to click through. The answer you see is not wrong it is “incomplete”. If you click you see they do say the Dutch royal family is the House of Orange and that’s where it all started. The top most results is for people who want the most easily understood answer. Literally dumbed down for children
True. But if some Wish seller tosses all of these in one collection for $100 I’m in. I will probably only wear each one once and put them back in my collection.
How many times do people need to say these are based on the Olympics? Jamaica dominates one of the top 3 Olympic sports. I don’t know if you’re aware but Apple is in the business of selling things. When Track and Field takes over the later part of the Olympics and the Jamaican and US flags are flying down the field in under ten seconds Apple wants to cash in. Its clear you’re not in marketing if you think they should have been based on raw population and GDP. There are hundreds of countries with a greater population than Jamaica. None of them will win medals.
Did yours come like this:
I’m sure all bands with a separate connector do, but I can’t seem to get it off.
I am curious if the bands that are currently sold out will see another refresh to the online store, or do you think that that was all Apple intended to make?
Do you have a link and do they connect to the watch as well as Apple's bands? And do AliExpress ship to Europe?
I am looking to get a sport-loop though I had some issues with badly fitting third party bands which would not be accurately connected to the watch so I've been using the sportband that came with my series 5 since I got it and am too cheap to buy Apple's expensive sport loops!
...they're not designed to come off!
I have loads of these bands (not from this collection) - none of the connectors come off.
These are tremendous and the lugs are identical to Apple’s. The only obvious thing is that the locking pins (the ones that snap in once the lugs are slid into the watch) are quite a bit more stiff than Apple’s. All this means is that you have to press the unlock buttons a bit harder than with Apple’s to allow the lugs to slide out again. But in my opinion this just means they’re less likely to fall out!
And yes, they ship to Europe (I’m in the UK).
Here’s a link to the ones I buy:
You won’t be disappointed with these. Just keep in mind, AliExpress shipping is sloooooow. Like 3 weeks or more usually.
Thanks! Will probably try to order a few, Apple's bands are just too expensive.
The image on the site shows the bands as one piece, like the solo loop. Is that the case or are these exactly like apple's with the burdock and overlapping part which you can fit to your wrist size?
I might try their Leather Link as well, if I decide to place an order for the sportloop! did you try any other band type from this seller?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001701533403.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.67d03c00duAvQa&mp=1
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Ignore the weird images, they’re just bad photoshops. They will arrive identical to the Apple sport loop (one end folds back over itself and secured by velcro for infinite adjustability). I don’t know why they did such a bad job photoshopping these haha. All the sellers use the same incorrect images! But they’re all from the same supplier and identical.
Definitely order a few though as I’m sure you’ll be very happy. And I’m quite a fussy person - if they’d been as crap as the Amazon knock-offs I would have returned them.
Sounds good! Ordering now.
Were you charged any customs tax by the way? I'll order 6 bands so hope there won't be customs fees for each band lol
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Nope, no tax - the Chinese fill in the customs declaration as “manufacturing examples”. It’s very clever. Essentially they treat the transaction as if you were a company looking to hire them to produce these in bulk and these are just some samples. They therefore have no monetary value and attract no duty.
Thanks for confirming. I have a Milanese loop & I’m sure the separate connector comes off, which is why I assumed it did for the sport ones
Greece shows currently unavailable (44mm). Not available for store pick up, obviously.
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It didn’t originally. That was a change apple made to the milanese loop when the AW S4 came out, presumably to allow for wireless charging on a mat. Previously, it was just like the sport loop. On the sport loop, the connector certainly doesn’t come off and never has.
It wasn’t, though. Apple had announced that they planned to release their own power mat (airpower, I believe it was to be called), so the change in the milanese loop was in preparation for that. They ended up not releasing the mat, but the connector on the milanese loop has remained detachable ever since.
Anyone ever notice the symbol of inclusion for pride, especially in this band pictures here has two of ever colour and 2 of only 1 shade, leaving only a single shade of black?!
hmmm.
