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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 965 36.5%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 19.8%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 105 4.0%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.4%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 67 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 300

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 400

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 500

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 600

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Total voters
    2,646
Catch a further sneak peak of some in real life Watch/band combos (Apple Store demo’s?), Leather Link here again is looking better than Apples stock pictures. He wears Graphite SS + Black Leather Link at 5:29

EDIT - The California Poppy colour looks very enticing

I think the Graphite shade would would better if the stainless watch had a brushed finish. I find it to be too light a shade for the highly reflective finish that the SS actually has. At that point, I would rather have the silver and the greater band compatibility. Also doesn’t come close to the SBSS in terms of blending the screen with the watch casing. The videos today completely solidify my decision to hang onto my SBSS S5 for at least another year and I might end up going up to the Ti if it’s still around next time I upgrade.

That video also does nothing to make me dislike the leather link band less than I already do. Really that Apple has pretty much eliminated traditional watch bands from its lineup. Your only real options at this point are to shell out for a link or an Hermes leather if you want a more classic look in a 1st party band.
 
Some nice new features:

iOS 14 tells you when your watch is done charging! Finally!

Sleep tracking works! Nice!
My first morning have five not just one watch on 7.0.

ALL five alarms went off. So much birdsong. So disorienting because my SBSS went off fifteen minutes earlier and the birds outside my house sound like the wake-up tone, which Apple Watch hasn’t done until today.

Luckily I was still in my room. Although during beta I did come back upstairs to find my SBSS had been vibrating for an hour.

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I think the Graphite shade would would better if the stainless watch had a brushed finish. I find it to be too light a shade for the highly reflective finish that the SS actually has.

Fair, but also, you don’t want it looking too much like Space Grey aluniumium, which for me Space Black Titanium fits this, nothing wrong with Aluminium but at the sheer difference in price, you’d want it to stand out. But also, if only the Ceramic wasn’t priced out of so many peoples budget...

Really that Apple has pretty much eliminated traditional watch bands from its lineup. Your only real options at this point are to shell out for a link or an Hermes leather if you want a more classic look in a 1st party band.

Fair enough man, I mean on the other hand, with Series 6, theres actually so many bands now, including new styles introduced, it actually feels like all the way back in 2015 when the Watch itself was introduced and back then every new band was new. Now instead, we also have heaps of new bands to try, whether they’ll be one offs or stick around, time will tell.

As for your second sentence, yeah, sometimes I just actually think about it, we’ll never know the real reason they got rid of the Classic Buckle, but I highly doubt it was bad sales, they were always popular across the board, i think it was just a ploy to upsell people to Hermes leather bands which were the closest alternative
 
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Aw, didn't realize I have to make an appointment to browse in the Apple Store, can't just stop by, and all slots are filled for the entire weekend. Guess I won't be trying on the new bands this weekend after all!
 
Forbes Series 6
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Space Black vs Graphite
What band do you think that is on the Space Black by the way?
Spearmint.
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I'm chatting with an Apple rep right now. She says that they limit the number of bands that one customer can buy (even at retail price). I've only bought 4 in the last year--and that's at full retail price, not even in the EPP store!
Juan bought one of each new one and wasn’t cancelled lol
 
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OK, now I've had TWO band orders cancelled with the message that "it exceeds the quantity limits per customer." What the heck is going on??! After my first order of three bands was cancelled, I placed three individual orders. Only one of those three shipped.

I'm a state govt. employee so I placed my order on that store to save $5. Is there a limit of one band? It doesn't say that anywhere...
Since when doesn't Apple want people to buy EVERYTHING??!!
 
Since when doesn't Apple want people to buy EVERYTHING??!!

They told me that they don't even let you order multiple bands as a regular customer either. Like if I wanted to place an order for 5 bands at full retail price, they won't allow it. Huh???!

I just placed a new order for full retail price to test this. I bet it goes through fine.
 
They told me that they don't even let you order multiple bands as a regular customer either. Like if I wanted to place an order for 5 bands at full retail price, they won't allow it. Huh???!

I just placed a new order for full retail price to test this. I bet it goes through fine.
Mine shipped fine 🤷‍♂️
 
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