Apple Watch Series 3 Expected to Debut in Fall 2017, Boosting Manufacturing Partner Quanta's Revenue

[Chupa Chupa]

Won't have a redesign. Would upset the band collectors to much.

When has upsetting customers been a concern of Apple regarding product renewal? They dumped the x86 and customers lost lots of software. They dumped PPC and customers lost lots of software. They've dumped numerous connectors. They've redesigned iPhones and iPads with minute differences from the previous version rendering covers and cases useless. They've even kept the same design but changed the magnet location just so you'd have to buy a new cover.

Apple won't redesign the AW because Jonny Ive thinks it's gorgeous and timeless rather than the pregnant Tic-Tac it is.

 

[Ghost31]

If history is any indication, gen 4 will be the redesign and the one to wait for.

Oh yeah. The longggggg history of the Apple Watch? I don't think we can always go off iPad and iPhone. Every time we try to predict how apple will do things we're all hilariously wrong
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Until they make it round, i'll never get it.

That's your choice and it's cool and everything. But I'll never understand people that hold this opinion. Watches that are basically just computers have no use for being...round. They don't have moving hands that go on a circular motion. It's basically a shrunken iPhone on your wrist. Do we want a round iPhone too? Maybe one flavor flav can hang around his neck

 

[Chupa Chupa]

So it's going to be a 12 month cycle? Honestly I think something like the Watch could be updated every 18-24 months.

Unless Series 3, as the name could imply, is a line extension with new exclusive features and price increase to go with it and not an update of an existing AW, i.e., the Series 1 and 2 remain in the sales line up and the "Series" notes the model not the version.

 

[Danoc]

Apple will never make a rounded watch because it’s a computer screen. And there is no such rounded computer screen.

Apple has taste.

 

[Ghost31]

Apple will never make a rounded watch because it’s a computer screen. And there is no such rounded computer screen.

Apple has taste.

No round computer my butt

 

[44267547]

From what I can tell, the newer models aren't significantly faster at loading apps,

Disagree. Also, Have you personally Tested the Series 2 say this? Because this is where the S2 processor made a significant difference with application load times and helps with fluidity of the application when in progress. Further more, the S2 Processor is certainly noticeable in opening applications, powering the Watch on is faster, WatchOS updates appear to be fader when compared to my first Generation Watch.

The Series 1/2 significantly made a difference in speed over the first Generation Apple Watch, which is what it needed in some area's with the help of WatchOS updates making the Watch more efficient.

 

[mazz0]

Apple is now firmly back to iPod-style domination for the wearables market.

No competitor has the money and/or the incentive (as they already lost tons of money on their failed wearables efforts) to research&develop the futuristic tech Apple is expected to deliver in the next years.

This is Apple's game to play, and win, for the foreseeable future.

You should tell MacRumours about all this futuristic tech Apple is expected to deliver in the next years, I've read nothing about it here.

 

[michaelant]

I like my Apple Watch a lot. But it still needs to be faster. That's the biggest improvement they can make, and will be for a while, it seems. I use it for notifications and activity tracking, mostly, like everyone else. More involved apps will become feasible only when the processor gets fast enough that you don't have to wait.

Sure, you can wait several seconds for the Wunderground app to give you its nice graph of the next 24 hrs temp/precip, but, waiting 6-8 seconds for it to pop up really nixes the joy of using it. For things that are basically instantaneous, like Apple's weather app, it is fun to have that on your wrist, and to tap once or twice maybe and get your info and be done, and it's only two seconds. If you have to sit there and wait for even a moment, holding your wrist up and staring, it defeats the purpose of having it on your wrist at all. Here's hoping Apple will continue frequent updates, speed things up, and unlock more of the potential of the smartwatch. I do think once things are fast enough, we may discover a killer app in a few years time.

 

[Fynd]

Won't have a redesign. Would upset the band collectors to much.

I agree for this year, but I do think they have a fair bit of room to shrink the form factor in thickness/length if needed.

 

[mazz0]

I don't get the cellular connectivity. I am rarely without my phone, but more importantly, let's say that the cost of an additional device on a cell plan, after taxes and fees is around $50 per month. That is $600 a year. Sorry, but that's a lot of money to make and receive phone calls on my watch, send and receive messages and listen to music. Especially when it is just for times when I don't have my phone within range of the watch.

Maybe people are more wealth than me, but I just don't get it.

How much non-Wifi data do you use in a month? 1GB a month is £7.50 here, including tax, that's just shy of $10, and I almost never go over that (thanks to wifi at work and at home).

 

[lkrupp]

Really, pay for another cell connection?

So the carriers just say "Sure, we'll add your watch to your plan at no charge." You know, one other smartwatch has LTE connectivity and guess what? It needs a separate plan too. Follow the money. Nothing is free.

 

[TheRealTVGuy]

With all due respect, comparing an Apple Watch to a fitbit is like comparing a pineapple to a giraffe.

Lol, YOU sir have won the internet for today.

 

[magicschoolbus]

Really, pay for another cell connection?

Is it possible to share the cell connection and have the phone act as a hotspot? Or does that just work for data?

I can take a call on my cell and ansewer it on my iPad with the handoff, so there has to be a way to make it work with handoff and hotspot connections.. I think?

 

[xsmi123]

I'll take it!

 

[Oblivious.Robot]

Apparently people really seem to hate a "round Apple watch" around here, well at least until one is released by Apple.

The more choices the merrier I say, and I'll definitely wait until 4th gen with a hopefully rounded display, bigger even and an always on screen. (Personal wish list for the Watch )

 

[spacebro]

When will the apple watch have a full radio to be a smartphone replacement?

 

[rp2011]

Me too.

Me three

 

[RiddlaBronc]

Is the technology there to hand-off cellular connectivity from your phone to the watch when you leave the phone behind?

Instead of adding a second cellular connection plan.

 

[rp2011]

Until they make it round, i'll never get it.

There is an Android Wear Watch with your name on it. All tacky and round for no good reason.

 

[nazaar]

So it's going to be a 12 month cycle? Honestly I think something like the Watch could be updated every 18-24 months.

Totally agree... or even longer. I can't imagine there being a major change in design.

 

[kerrikins]

You mean it'll be announced the same time all past models have been?! No way! Next you'll tell me that products will be announced at WWDC and the iPhone in the fall

There have been two releases, one in April and one in September. :|

So it's going to be a 12 month cycle? Honestly I think something like the Watch could be updated every 18-24 months.

This is still a pretty new device, only just over two years old. A lot of people to bring into the segment still, so I'm not surprised they're doing frequent updates. Might slow down in time.

 

[routine_analyst]

If history is any indication, gen 4 will be the redesign and the one to wait for.

If history is any indication, gen 5 will be the redesign and the one to wait for.
If history is any indication, gen 6 will be the redesign and the one to wait for.
If history is any indication, gen 7 will be the redesign and the one to wait for.

...

 

[eroslws]

With all due respect, comparing an Apple Watch to a fitbit is like comparing a pineapple to a giraffe.

I use my Apple Watch to look at notifications and track activity. I use my Fitbit to look at notifications and track activity. It's the same device for most people; the issue is whether you choose to pay more for stuff you won't use.

For this reason, I hope Series 3 allows us to disable features in exchange for battery life. They already do it with low power mode. Let's extend that to disabling Siri, background apps, interactive notifications, and whatever other bloat runs on the Watch that makes it suck the battery down in a day.

 

[Quu]

I hope they redesign it, that would be the only reason for me to upgrade at this point. Series 1 and 2 just didn't do enough to persuade me.

 

[kyleh22]

Meh, cellular is nice but I'm not digging a separate bill. I was also hoping for a thinner case. I guess I'll be waiting at least one more generate before getting an Apple Watch.