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Apple Watch Series 8 Could Come in Three Sizes, Claims Analyst
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You could get a watch strap case for your iPhone.
Seems like 38mm 42mm 46mm could be an option. I don’t have kids but have heard Watch is preferred to an iPhone and smaller size may be a better fit.
I’m 6’3”. I’d love like a 50? milimeter watch. It would look ridiculous on other people but for those of us who are over 6’ would look great.
I think that the thing now, BMW has a 1 series, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 series....really the same with Audi. I guess it's a flood the market thing...have a model for everybody.
Larger screen / chassis, with ruggedized strap / housing; and please, Please, PLEASE give us a variant that can make / take cell phone calls without the need to be tied to an iPhone / iPhone cell account...!
A slightly larger watch will be good along with a redesign next year.
You guys are funny. Reading a bunch of comments and no one I’ve seen has made the connection.
Im guessing the 3rd size is going to be the updated SE. you will have 3 sizes. The current series 7 sizes and one of the screen sizes from series 4-6. Should have been expected anyway. Nothing to see here.
Im guessing the 3rd size is going to be the updated SE. you will have 3 sizes. The current series 7 sizes and one of the screen sizes from series 4-6. Should have been expected anyway. Nothing to see here.
But the rumor is that Series 8 alone will have 3 sizes. Right now they sell 6 different sizes, 2 each for S3, SE and S7
It’s a rumor. Not hard to make the jump to 3 NEW products. Series 8 and they wouldn’t have the same screen size for the SE. it specifically says in the article that the size wasn’t mentioned.
Disagree, but that’s where my money is.
Not necessarily.
So far aWatches have been sold like watches, so "female" and "male" sizes, and differentiation based on materials.
Apple appears to be learning that many of their customers have no interest in paying more along the "fashion" dimension (we started with very expensive gold, dialed that back to still expensive fancy ceramic, and have dialed that back to slightly expensive titanium...)
However customers ARE willing to pay more along the "electronics" dimension (iPhone Pro's, starting with the iPhone X, have done pretty well...)
Hence an obvious direction going forward might be to provide an aWatch Pro. Not in all combinations, but maybe something like
SE (low end)
Aluminum (two sizes) - mass market
Stainless steel (two sizes, smaller is sorta the 45inch size, larger is substantially larger) - pro version, so also has more sensors, larger battery, etc
Apple did this in an initial way with the iPhone 6 Plus, but maybe with aWatch we skip the intermediate stage of just a larger screen and go straight to the "Pro" situation we have now in iPhones?
Don't know what happens to the Ti line -- maybe they keep that as high end pro? Would depend on how well it sells in different sizes, and no-one outside Apple knows those details.
But ultimately I think the financial calculation should be that many more people (1/3 of users?) would pay the current stainless steel price or a little higher for pro electronics than would pay that today (1/10th of users?) just for "fashion".
Clearly Apple had planned on releasing an entirely new apple watch this year and something went down and they didn't have time to fix whatever the issue was and cobbled together the AW7. There's a few articles bouncing around that makes a good case for this. I have the AW6 and while the 7 is compelling for the larger screen real estate, I think I'll hold off for AW8 which I believe will be an all new design and hopefully an extra large version. 48mm-50mm would be sweet.
I hope they bring the square sides like the 12 and 13 series. I need to upgrade my S4 and didn’t like the look of the S7.