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

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 964 36.4%
  • 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
    2,645
Electric Orange braided
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Are we expecting new bands being released after WWDC? What’s Apple’s usual release schedule for bands? Once every 3 months?
Yep. The good money is on sunflower, cloud blue, olive, electric orange. @jeremyfernie thinks they have another braided in them, in sunflower.
 
Yep. The good money is on sunflower, cloud blue, olive, electric orange. @jeremyfernie thinks they have another braided in them, in sunflower.
I’m looking at my closet again, trying to think which color I could add to my mini collection (2). Hahaha.

Truth is band releases are fun, but I’m not sure I LOVE owning an Apple Watch. I track my activity and sleep everyday so the watch is on me all the time unless it’s charging. In all honesty, I find it a bit suffocating to have something on me all the time.
 
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I’m looking at my closet again, trying to think which color I could add to my mini collection (2). Hahaha.

Truth is band releases are fun, but I’m not sure I LOVE owning an Apple Watch. I track my activity and sleep everyday so the watch is on me all the time unless it’s charging. In all honesty, I find it a bit suffocating to have something on me all the time.
Don’t track your sleep then! Some nights I definitely want a break from having it on.
 
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I’m looking at my closet again, trying to think which color I could add to my mini collection (2). Hahaha.

Truth is band releases are fun, but I’m not sure I LOVE owning an Apple Watch. I track my activity and sleep everyday so the watch is on me all the time unless it’s charging. In all honesty, I find it a bit suffocating to have something on me all the time.
I use it the same way: only when it's charging it's off my wrist. I am using it also for medical purposes and I'm pleased with how it performs.
 
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Since the Apple Store is still up, I expect no new bands being announced during the Keynote. Maybe a PR release later this afternoon or later this week?
 
Since the Apple Store is still up, I expect no new bands being announced during the Keynote. Maybe a PR release later this afternoon or later this week?
I don't know - I think after the event? But they don't need to take the store down for it. They do a lot of quiet updates without doing so.
 
The winter bands didn’t show til afternoon Pacific time even though the m1 Macs came up after the show. Ugh I guess it’s a solstice tradition. But it should just be a slipstream update, just update some headers.
 
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"Summer 2021 in Northern Hemisphere will begin on Sunday, June 20"
Apple usually only follows the actual solstice dates for Spring and Fall. Because they usually align with a keynote date. WWDC happens much earlier than the Summer solstice so the bands are usually released earlier in the month.
 
I hope you’re right. I really want that Amethyst band. I still hold out hope for that one…
If they made watchfaces for sea salt and electric orange, there would be one for deep purple or amethyst. For the sanity of the software engineers I don’t think we’ll ever get a winter/summer surprise from the Chinese bands.
 
Apple usually only follows the actual solstice dates for Spring and Fall. Because they usually align with a keynote date. WWDC happens much earlier than the Summer solstice so the bands are usually released earlier in the month.
I realize :) Just sharing it to inspire some calm, in case we wind up not seeing anything today.
 
I realize :) Just sharing it to inspire some calm, in case we wind up not seeing anything today.
Interestingly in 2019 they previewed summer bands on the watchOS preview website, not sure about 2020 as Wayback doesn‘t seem to have the fancy image assets. 2021 not so much. I wonder if there’s some marketing wisdom that has them delaying because the spring bands were a month late.
 
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Here’s sunflower goo band, around 1:12 in the YouTube stream. Go to 1:10 the apple stream for better quality… as spotted by @jeremyfernie respectfully keeping his eyes “up here”

edit: forgot about safari allowing screen capture…
 
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