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Got my first Apple Watch, the Ultra version. Received last night, set it all up but noticed the watch band I ordered was too large. Being that it’s Apple, have products from the since 1984, I could do a simple exchange for a smaller band….not TRUE!!! Very UN Apple like with their process.
The only way to exchange to band was return everything back to Apple…..what?
I asked the Apple Rep that seemed silly. If I did what Apple wanted, I would be without the watch for over a month because of all the back orders!!
Come on Man?!??
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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They can still upsell based on the case type, even if all the watches had sapphire screens I'd still pay more for a more premium quality case.
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.
 
It seems like these YouTubers want to prove Apple wrong.

This Apple Watch Ultra has been through hell. I don't understand what these YouTubers are trying to prove. It's clear that Apple Watch Ultra is "rugged", & "durable".
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.
 
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.
 
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But will it blend?

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'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.
 
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Ridiculous they haven't moved to the Sapphire glass across all the lines.
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.
 
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