They are available and have been since February. Also, if you look closely at the details of the braided solo loop, you’ll see the black and brown, as well as Trans Pride colors in the threads.
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Apple Announces Pride Edition Apple Watch Braided Solo Loop and Nike Sport Loop
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I think it most definitely resembles the (updated) pride flag when flat, albeit in a zig-zag pattern.
I'm LGBT, and I love this band.
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Picked up a braided one, looks really cool and very zany. Been wanting to try a braided solo loop.
I'm reluctant to agree, but this year I just don't like either of them. I have ones from previous years so in June I'll wear a different one each week. Hopefully next year I'll like their offerings.
Just going to go out and say this, it's not fair that the LGBTQ community claimed a monopoly over the visible color spectrum. Like, what the hell guys? This band actually looks great and I'm trying to stay on brand here.
Every disenfranchised group plays fair and picks a few colors. LGBTQ just throws a fish net over ROYGBIV and selfishly designs all fabulous gear in it. It's not fair! 😂
Every disenfranchised group plays fair and picks a few colors. LGBTQ just throws a fish net over ROYGBIV and selfishly designs all fabulous gear in it. It's not fair! 😂
I've had the same issue with a few of my oldest bands. I think the materials they're using now are a bit more resistant to sweat-induced grossness. I used some oxiclean and a little bit of hydrogen peroxide in warm water to get some of the stains out. Worked well on mine, but it may affect colors on some bands.
I proudly raised the re-designed Pride flag at our house the other day, but I have to confess I'm not a big fan of the bands this year. I'll go with the new watch face and pair it with a Pride band I have from last year.
Having the designers working on watch bands also writing kernel-level code in Big Sur and doing hardware design for the M1 will likely not improve your overall satisfaction in the products
Sorry, but not being gay isn't an option for me. I tried that to please a lot of people and it just didn't take. What I can be, however, is gay AND kind and respectful and supportive. As can straight or bi or trans people.
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the braided band I’m a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to the pride flag, the six colored rainbow, the flag I secretly kept in my room when struggling with my sexuality that gave me strength.
I'm pretty sure if you put that whole menu in a blender it would come out one gross color.
I have very similar feelings, but you've done a much better job of articulating them than I could.
I understand your defensiveness, but I suspect the original author was attempting to say that the labels are a distraction - we should all just strive to just be ourselves and to be supportive of others being themselves. It sounds like you are on the right track there!
I don't look at it as a label, or it has to be a perfect pride flag either. You can like rainbow colors and be happy with it. I'm pansexual and buy all the Apple pride bands they release.
It’s not the wrong message, but yeah, it would make me wonder. I think it’s strange when allies don the pride flag, but it’s definitely better than them donning a white hood!
Still, gays/trans don’t own the exclusive rights to the rainbow… if you like the thing, buy it! But if you feel a tug in the night, don’t wonder why. 😂
Being gay/trans is not supposed to be a political statement. The only reason LGBTQ became political is because people were attacked for it. It’s just a strange concept to me that people still consider gay to be some type of alternative lifestyle choice.
Further muddying the waters, I have a really hard time seeing much authenticity within the LGBTQ community because you never know who is just there for the ride now. Every time some literary dyes their hair purple just to say that “sexuality is a spectrum” and claims they’re queer for the attention, the real voices of the rainbow get drowned out. I can’t stand this “you are who you say you are” nonsense. A white person is not black, and a straight person is not gay. Nor should either want so bad to be the other that they feel the need to trample upon the other’s identity.
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Maybe you’ve misunderstood me - I meant the label attached. Whatever you are own it and be kind and respectful. 😃
You’re not wrong. Plenty has become stupid at Apple lately. While M1 itself was the accomplishment, we should care about the progression of the internal components and configurations before gaudy colors.
I appreciate aesthetics, but it’s caved in on itself lately. I overall prefer a more utilitarian society instead of a warped, tightly controlled version of corporate-defined “human freedom” where anyone is what they claim to be. That would be known as a lie.
You’re absolutely not sending the wrong message! If someone seems interested and asks, politely decline and revel in the affirmation that even gay folks find you attractive.
If someone inappropriately touches you without your consent, that’s bad regardless of who does it and is a stereotype that shouldn’t be perpetuated, even in jest.
It’s only as hypocritical as Christmas is. I think what you’re noticing is the inauthenticity of it… kind of goes hand in hand with an oblivious form of hypocrisy. I don’t take this as you griping either… something tangible was lost to the spirit of it, and I think part of that was the actual achievement of gay rights/acceptance in many countries. I especially support Pride in places like Iran. In the U.S., I feel it needs to be centered far more around supporting the globe rather than being narcissistic.
My opinion? Citibank, vodka brands, and corporate suckers took over the Pride movement and tried to turn it into a Pepsi Generation thing. They morphed it into general individualism/“freedom to be you”, which had almost nothing to do with what Pride was about. Pride was about specific people with common struggles.
The people in this photo weren’t there because they were devoid of attention. They were there because they had a real fight to fight. I wish people would form their own fringe movements instead of tacking on another letter onto LGBT and diluting real historical progress with “everyone is free to choose their own color iMac and which Smirnoff flavor to drink” nonsense.