Hmm perhaps but then the US and UK have the same colours so should have the same style band by that logic.
I think there is an attempt to replicate the flags on some of them - the Japanese one with the red dot in the middle for example.
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Apple Creates Country Specific Apple Watch Bands for the Olympics
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Hmm perhaps but then the US and UK have the same colours so should have the same style band by that logic.
I think there is an attempt to replicate the flags on some of them - the Japanese one with the red dot in the middle for example.
Damn, I missed that GQ link in the OP...
It seems to me that the designs for Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand and Australia are well thought out.
On the other hand, UK getting the North Korean (sort of) and Canada the Austrian flag...?
It seems to me that the designs for Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand and Australia are well thought out.
On the other hand, UK getting the North Korean (sort of) and Canada the Austrian flag...?
[doublepost=1469186324][/doublepost]Where could i buy this? I wish it will be my 2nd strap choice, after bought the OULUOQI apple watch link bracelet at Amazon.
Apple has created 14 country specific Apple Watch woven nylon bands for the 2016 Olympics. The bands, which were first spotted by GQ, are designed to reflect the national flags of 14 of the major competitors at the games.
The countries included are the U.S., Great Britain, the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Jamaica, Canada, China, Brazil, Australia, Germany, and France. The bands are only available at the VillageMall Apple Store in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The bands are $49 each.
One of the first Olympic athletes to acquire one of the bands is Team USA sprinter Trayvon Bromell, who posted a picture of his band on Twitter.
Apple has created special bands in the past, most recently debuting rainbow woven nylon bands for the Pride festival in late June.
Article Link: Apple Creates Country Specific Apple Watch Bands for the Olympics
No Latvia.
If you ask me, the Canadian one fits both Latvia and Austria (leaning towards Austria due to the brighter red) better than Canada itself.
I'd buy a Canadian one if it were available here in Austria
The Apple of 1996 went down the tubes because Apple was making computers, monitors, printers, cameras, PDAs, cables, software, speakers, CD players, CDROM drives, remotes, TV capture cards, ,TV Presentaion systems, FM cards, floppy discs, keyboards, mice, clothing, an online service, web browser, networking equipment, AUX Servers...and probably more. Apple lost focus and in turn lost money. That is starting to happen now. Apple is all over the place. Watch bands are the equivilent to making cameras.....why? Let someone else do it. Let some company that knows how to make better bands more efficiently do it.
Just because someone feels "negatively" about something doesn't make it less accurate. It is a great guage for the company to be mesured against. It is historic fact. I know some Apple fans get their cookie cutter world shattered when someone thinks negatively about Apple. But you will find most negative Apple people in here were once Apples biggest champions. Apple has and continues to let them down. Right Apple negetive thinkers?
Thankfully, the one designed for Mexico can also be proudly used by Italian and Hungarian athletes.
Those bands appear to only support longitudinal stripes, which can be an issue with a lot of flags (I guess the Canadians can share a band with the Austrians
Yes, Austrian and Canadians - share the (red-white-red) design !
And Italians can share the Brazilian (green-white-red) design ...
Tim just hired 10,000 Chinese slaves and installed 100 suicide nets to meet demand for Pokemon Go watch bands.
There's a wide chasm between the product lines Apple of '96 and the lines they have today. They can't continue forever with iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They are going to have to diversify. Peak iPhone? I'm not sure. Peak iPad? Yeah, it seems as if the tablet heyday is in the rearview mirror. Macs? Flat in a declining category.
Is Apple actually all over the place? They have AW and ATV as added products. Everything else is just accessories. Their product portfolio consists of 5 categories. Yes, it is more than the original 3, but a far cry from the menagerie of products from '96. Even if Apple goes abso-freaking-lutely nuts and intro's 2-3 more categories it still wouldn't rise to the level of '96.
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I am pretty sure if I wire $49 to a Brazilian for one of these bands, I'll likely never get the band.
But was that snark about watch bands vs, say, updating Mac hardware or was it people arguing over gay rights and Apple's support of it?
I actually recall thinking, in the mid 90's, that getting a Mac would be a good thing (I've always been a software developer, primarily on Unix, had not owned a Mac), for the exposure to a new/different platform, and, quite literally, one of the things stopping me was that they had approximately 97,000 different models to choose from, with no clear delineation of what would be best for any given set of needs.
Wait, you mean Google and Samsung haven't come up with accessories for their products yet!!!??? Man, they have some serious catching up to do!
I think Mustang69 already nailed the post from above, reference his. Although, I do agree Apple is more focused from when they were 20 years ago. Let's remember ultimately what got them here, Macs, not Watch bands. Even though I appreciate their expanded ingenuity and I am a supporter of that.
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Where is your source they are charging $50.00 for these special event/World Olympic bands? Do we know they are charging for these limited edition bands that are NOT available to the public?
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Apparently it was arguing of Watch Bands that lead to Gay Rights I believe. And those attending.
I'm curious to see for how much they'll go on eBay come August.
To be fair, Apple did not schedule a media event two weeks in the future, with a cryptic tag line, to have Tim Cook on stage excitedly introducing these watch bands in front of thousands of astonished viewers. They simply did a small thing that they thought was cool, and put out a press release.
But MacRumors (quite reasonably) doesn't use, say, especially tiny fonts to report minor news items, figuring rightly that folks interested in Apple come here to read the Apple-related news of the day, and some days the news is less earth shattering than others. And some folks sometimes lose sight of that fact, and assume that, because there is an article or two on watch bands (displayed in the same size fonts, on the same pages, that sometimes herald the announcement of new Macs, or iOS devices), that that necessarily means that fully one-third of Apple's employees must now be working exclusively on watch bands (keep in mind that Apple is famous for bringing new products to market that thousands of people have been involved in, with little more than a few rumors escaping). The problem of focus lately, I think, lies more with the Apple watchers, than with Apple themselves.
How so? They report the items of the day that relate to Apple in some way, be they big or small. We often amplify the import of the lesser items out of a lack of bigger items to discuss.
