Apple Watch Series 4 to Feature Redesign, Longer Battery Life and 15% Larger Display

[brock2621]

ugh, please don't make it much bigger. Women don't want a big-azz watch on their wrist like some douchebag with a huge Rolex trying to impress the ladies *eyeroll*

Rolex watches aren't that big actually. I feel most of their watches are pretty inconspicuous to the average person until you get up to the rare diamond studded ones.

I'm hoping for same size shell for band compatibility but less bezel

 

[tex210]

Confused myself- disregard and apoligies

 

[joel8x]

Damn I just got my AW3 too

You shouldn't sweat that - I had the original, and the series 3 is everything that it should have been at launch. It's a perfected version of the original vision. I got it as soon as they went on sale & have enjoyed it fully and much more than the original.

 

[ActionableMango]

That is by far the most important upgrade they could make that will benefit millions.

Yes, non-invasive glucose monitoring would be the "killer app" for many, many people, including me.

However, it's been pointed out that glucose monitoring would push the Apple Watch into medical device territory, which are in a tight regulatory environment and incur lots of additional testing and delay. An AW with glucose monitoring would take so long for FDA approval that the design would be obsolete by the time it was legal to sell to the public. I also don't think they'd be able to feasibly update it so frequently. So AW+glucosemon feels incompatible with the normal fast pace of development for consumer electronics.

And I'm not sure Apple would be willing to hold back normal AW progress by making it a medical device. The talked about workarounds would be (1) a "separate" AW model with glucose monitoring that would be technologically behind the "normal" AW, or (2) the glucose sensor would be a separate hardware piece like the strap, that could connect to whatever the current AW is.

In any case I think we are still many years away, in part due to regulatory capture.

 

[chucker23n1]

And I'm not sure Apple would be willing to hold back normal AW progress by making it a medical device. The talked about workarounds would be (1) a separate AW model with glucose monitoring that would be behind the normal AW, or (2) the glucose sensor would be a separate hardware piece like the strap, that could connect to whatever the current AW is.

In any case I think we are still many years away, in part due to regulatory capture.

Sure, but the far bigger holdback is that the technology simply doesn't exist at this point.