Been waiting 3+ years for a decent Sport green color. Like a Forest or Hunter or mid range green. Nothing pastel or super bright. Another year I shall go..
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Apple Watch Gets New Spring Collection of Bands, Available to Order Later This Month
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Nike and Hermes is massive branding. Do you have any idea how many third party bands are available for the Apple Watch? (Rhetorical) Likely Thousands. As the Apple Watch has grown, third party bands have expanded exponentially. I would also say there’s a fairly large market for third-party bands due to Apples prices with their OEM bands. Yes, they are not the quality that Apples bands are with finish, but there literally impossible to distinguish the difference between Apples bands and third party bands. Most consumers want to save by purchasing three or four third party bands at what the cost of two Apple Watch bands would amount to.
Or until the fall. That's more of a fall color. I would love Kelly green or emerald. Forest or hunter would probably be too dark for my own taste. The more vivid, the better for me!
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Dude, are you posting in the right thread and quoting the right post??? This article and my comment has nothing to do with the Mac Mini. And if your post has something to do with Apple updating watch bands instead of upgrading the Mac Mini, I'm sorry, but there is no correlation between the two.
I don't doubt that Apple's bands are a higher quality, but if I can get a sport band for $5 vs $50, a milanese band for $5 vs $150 and a link bracelet for $9 vs $500.... I'd rather spend the $15 and get 3 (lower quality) bands than spend $50, $150, or $500 to get only one extra.
Look for indistinguishable knockoffs on Amazon Marketplace at a tenth of the cost in about ... now.
Your ‘eye rolling’ comment matches the opinion of many, even though you now abandon that position.
The desire to keep an iDevice product line, constantly “fresh”, does show us what the artist, formally known as ‘Apple Computers Inc.’, really feels about their roots.
That wasn’t meant as a jab at you, in any way. It just further highlights how far Apple has deviated from their roots, to the chagrin of many long time Apple enthusiasts.
Not indistinguishable in terms of quality.
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Outside of Nike and Hermès partnerships what 3rd party bands has Apple promoted?
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Who thinks Apple’s $49 sport bands are luxury items?
Includes VAT, so really about $60, so the diff is a bit less.
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Right... yet Jobs announced and sold socks, for Ipods.
not the item individually but the brand itself. nobody thinks the regular white headphones from Apple are a luxury item but they will charge you $30 for it which is ludicrous when you can get bluetooth headphones for that price these days. Its all about perception... you can't go too cheap even on the cheaper products.
WHILE regularly updating all Mac and iDevice lineups.
But I guess that is just too much to ask, for today’s Apple.
Boom!
29$ sale on the pearl nylon woven at Best Buy as a clearance item solidified it for me
It’s the most comfy band I own I think and doesn’t look half bad, but I still would feel guilty if I paid $49 for it
$29 id prolly end up buying a few bands to switch it up, vs none anymore
You didn’t understand the context of my first post. Please re-read it. For reference, you originally stated:
Aside from Hermes and Nike, I stated that its massive branding because of the name. You went on to state how you “Wonder how much Apple cares about the third-party bands market”. I stated that there are thousands of bands offered at a much lower price point that directly compete with the Apple Watch OEM bands. Apple doesn’t have to promote any other third-party bands in order for consumers to realize they can save money with third party bands that look absolutely identical to Apples bands. In terms of quality, Apple’s bands are superior, but price point wise, the consumer doesn’t always care about that when there alternatives that are cheaper. That was my point.
Agree completely. I won't wear knockoffs and that means I have exactly one sport band purchased at regular price. Even though I have the money and would love to change the look up (a lot, even), $49 is higher than I can justify for a sport band. At $29, I probably would go buy ten of them.
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Wasn't this $29 for the pack of five? That's a good reminder that Apple hasn't always charged the extreme prices we see today.
I have a Series 3 Nike watch, but the non-LTE variant, and I don’t have this watch-face color combination option, the white with crimson accents. I just have a white with volt. Does anyone else have this option or will be be introduced when the new bands become available?
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My wife and I love the leather loop style, but at $150, we'll stick with the lower quality ripoffs. I wouldn't mind a $29-39 price point, but Apple's markup on these is insane. I guess we'll stick with $12 eBay bands, and have enough color variety that they will last as long as a single Apple one.
Hmm, that’s interesting. I looked on the store app and see what you mean. Is yours the LTE version? Maybe that’s the difference, as you can see from this screenshot, the non-LTE like mine, aren’t shown with this color combination.
