The exchange for Apple Watch with the wrong size bands has been like that since day one. At least that's been my experience way back with series 0.
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Apple Watch Ultra Stands Up to Major Abuse in Latest Durability Test
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That was remarkable. For completion he perhaps should have spilled a hot latte on it.
Yeah, but I don't think most people would. Most people buying an Apple Watch probably have no idea whether the face is ion or sapphire. If the screen type adds $30 to the watch, I think it becomes less affordable.
Oooor… you could just wear the Ultra and find out yourself how durable it is. Instead watching YouTubers repeat the same content over and over.
Didn’t watch. Don’t care.
Didn’t watch. Don’t care.
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Agree. They all have variably-veiled agendas and hope to get their 5 minutes with an Apple gotcha. Apple clearly had better plans, and we the consumers win.
Do they really make enough off the ads to destroy an $800 watch?
Now if we’d just see them use the sapphire on the iPhone 15 Ultra, that would be cool. Front AND back.
Yes.
Expect about $7,000 for every million views.
Approximately of course.
Not to mention the sponsors they tack onboard.
I stand firm: apples $799 purchase price is a bargain
Did they test the electronics? Does the watch still function as all things for all people? Do you care? As long the pretty glass didn't break.
Isn't unfair to compare regular 8 vs ULTRA!! I was confused really than following them through 🧐
I’d like to see a test where the watch is exposed to day after day after day of extremely dusty, dirty, wet, muddy, hot and cold conditions. You know, like the kind of harsh environs that it might be exposed to given the marketing hype. Much more so than artificial hard hits which are an extremely limited indicator of durability under real life outdoor use cases.
I'm impressed with how much abuse the Ultra can take.
Hate these types of destructive tests. Was it JerryRigEverything did the original with the iPhone 6+ or something? Bendgate?
Seconded. I think they missed a $200 trick here (Please dont look at this thread Tim Apple).
Of course it will. Any extremly hard material that can still be molded into some form can always be remolded too (aka break). The question is how much power one has to use to make that happen. Eventually we'll come to a point when you need so much (kinetic) power that we can say it is sort of unbreakable. Then people probably will start to complain that the product needs way too much power to make it (and therefore not "green" anymore, boo)
I love the big screen , but i cant justify buying one as the most athletic thing i do is open a beer 🍺
I've always brought stainless steel / sapphire Apple watches. Original, Series 2, series 5, 7, and upgraded to Ultra for the battery life and got great resale on the 7. I've bumped them into various things, a wall, fallen onto rocks. Never a scratch to the display. Not that sapphire isn't likely to scratch at all, but it can still break.
Luke Miami destroyed 4 cars trying to get the Crash Notification to activate! 😂
it didn’t
Gorilla glass scratches but does not shatter easily, where sapphire glass does not scratch, but shatters more easily. It is a deliberate choice by Apple, as the aluminium watches are/were foreseen for working out, and the steel versions more as dress watches.