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First '45mm' Apple Watch Bands Spotted Ahead of Series 7 Unveiling [Updated]
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...and people who have older watches will have many reasons to upgrade. If you upgrade every year, you're in the minority.
My Jeep's tires won't fit on my Mustang! 🙃 Lesson learned, I'll never buy a ton of bands again. Just one or two.
this may surprise you but not all Americans are clueless. We use metric quite a bit here in jobs and academics. We’re overall
Better with the imperial system, but metric is taught from grade school on.
Was just about to pull the trigger on a SE 44mm. Wonder if it's worth waiting now to see if the price drops or Apple releases another 'budget' watch.
It's probably a crop of a sneaky image no one was supposed to take, like most leaked photos.
A lot of leaks dropping lately. I'm excited to get my first Apple Watch next month.
As long as my Space Black Stainless Steel Link Bracelet fits, I'll be STOKED. I don't expect it to but I'd love it. That came with my first Gen zero Apple Watch and I'm so lucky this $500 watch band has been my daily strap for 7 generations of Apple Watch.
I guess my point is, the huge 100 million install base of current Apple Watch users (S0-S6) that don’t choose to upgrade to the new S7/body style, would not be able to buy newer bands. Especially if Apple’s future seasonal releases focused only on the new band sizes. I suspect the SE will replace S3 as the budget model, and thus bands will be compatible between SE and S7 “current” models, and all former models.
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Notice how I mentioned I was using a series 6 and gave no reference to what I think other people might be doing.
If they produce a new model of watch and name it 45mm why would you expect them to name the new bands like old gens, even if retrocompatibles? 🤔
Why do you think I assumed all Americans are clueless? I wrote nothing like that.
You also still didn’t explain why this particular measurement is in mm. I’m actually wondering because all other tech stuff is in imperial units. Even here in Europe we now have to deal with inches for screen sizes.
hehe. Exactly, when they moved to the newer models, so did the model branding on the bands. I have many that say 38mm and many that say 40mm.
What would be “confusing”, is if the SE remains as the budget model in 40/44mm sizes (I suspect it will), and yet Apple only sells “41mm” branded bands, etc. Of course veteran AW users would be savvy enough to understand, but a net-new user might not understand their band options. Perhaps at least the retail boxes will be labeled “44/45mm”, etc.
OR— there’s no backwards compatibility, and us band collectors are screwed!!!
Just from a supply chain point of view, I would doubt that Apple would create new bands that only fit Series 7 and newer Watches, assuming they’ll want / have to continue offering at least one version of the previous form factor (series 6 or SE). In other words, they wouldn’t want to have to carry two ranges of bands, where there would of course be duplication from old to new, as they’d end up with customers buying the wrong versions.
As we’ve seen happen already, they can grow the Watch sizes, yet still make the bands compatible with previous models.
As we’ve seen happen already, they can grow the Watch sizes, yet still make the bands compatible with previous models.
Whose talking weapons? Since everything is reclassified, I own several .45 cal cordless hole punches. 😉