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Apple Reportedly Developing Apple Watch SE With Plastic Casing
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What if something happens on the way to school, at school? What if there’s a shooting at their school etc etc etc. you’d wish you could get ahold of your kid and vise versa. There are lots of ways of controlling your kids consumption while enabling vital communication.
Totally. It gets covered every time this comes up. If Apple were actually committed to the environment they’d make phones that last for at least five years and have swappable batteries. They try to mitigate the waste by recycling trade in phones, but simply making them more durable and long lasting would have by far the bigger impact.
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That painfully un-self-aware skit with "Mother Nature" made me want to vomit. What a load of meretricious tosh that was.
apparently so given the price difference between stainless steel and aluminum, although a bulk of that is probably marketing
Pretty sure any random lunch takeout order has as much plastic involved as a plastic-cased Apple Watch would.
Relative margins are about the same though for the components…A band and battery that are worth $1 max, with unlimted replacements. Sure. Try getting a Rolex serviced for free
- No fast charging
- No on screen keyboard
- Early drop of support
- And now all new cheap materials!!!
They’re shifting it to compete with Fitbit and Garmin and the other fitness trackers. They’ve abandoned any attempt to compete with Seiko, Citizen, Casio, SWATCH etc.
“How much more money can I get these chumps to fork over?”
Plastic is also absorbent and yellows (if it's white)... enjoy your yellowy perma sweat-smelling watches I guess 😣 😷
Plastic is appropriate for some applications. But wrist watches are pretty marginal for the exact reason you mention. Plastic ages, especially when it’s constantly against skin. Stainless steel doesn’t. That’s why most nice wrist watches are made out of stainless.