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Gurman: Apple Planning Major 'Apple Watch X' Redesign to Introduce New Band System and More

constantsnags! said:
I think that sort of depends on WHY you'd see it as an omission/terrible example. iPad excels at being a simple shape, a closed unit with as few apertures in the case as possible. When you add a slot, you also add a place for stuff to get jammed, an edge to get caught on things and snap a card or damage internals if the card snags on something, battery life drain for read/write (small though it would be), using up space taken up by the battery, etc. etc. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I can absolutely understand why there wasn't / isn't an SD slot.
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So I use MS Word, Pages, and yes Google Docs. The linking or file exchange is "MISERABLE". That is done intentionally I'm absolutely positively sure! However, an SD card would simplify my life by allowing me to take the docs from the SD card and to read it "where-ever". Why do I have to have an unrecognizable file when I'm sending a pages doc to an iMac? That iMac has to register with the recipient via iCloud to do so!? If I had an SD card I just pop it out and it works. Sorry that it's come to this but if you're in a business that uses multiple word processing apps the MS, apple Google wars appear to have been in full fight. Also, I transfer larger files like movies when I go out of the country, or service; Keeping ONe Note files and older iphoto files. It would just be easier as we now are stuck in a "non-complianc" between all the Giant Tech companies. Technology was easier in the early 2010 as I could go seamlessly between the two and now... it's f... disaster!
 
Drisin said:
So I use MS Word, Pages, and yes Google Docs. The linking or file exchange is "MISERABLE". That is done intentionally I'm absolutely positively sure! However, an SD card would simplify my life by allowing me to take the docs from the SD card and to read it "where-ever". Why do I have to have an unrecognizable file when I'm sending a pages doc to an iMac? That iMac has to register with the recipient via iCloud to do so!? If I had an SD card I just pop it out and it works. Sorry that it's come to this but if you're in a business that uses multiple word processing apps the MS, apple Google wars appear to have been in full fight. Also, I transfer larger files like movies when I go out of the country, or service; Keeping ONe Note files and older iphoto files. It would just be easier as we now are stuck in a "non-complianc" between all the Giant Tech companies. Technology was easier in the early 2010 as I could go seamlessly between the two and now... it's f... disaster!
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Well, you’re sort of expecting that three completely separate formats will work seamlessly across 3 platforms. That’s never really been true; in the late 80s and early 90s I couldn’t (IIRC) work with Pagemaker files inside Quark or vice versa. I’m pretty sure MacWrite and Word didn’t play well together early on either. However, you can output a Word file from Pages or Docs (again, I haven’t used it much since I was last doing a lot of contract writing so that may have changed) and then work with it just fine inside Word. As for reading a card anywhere, you’ll read a FAT formatted card easily with an iPad and a card reader or a Mac. The opposite won’t apply if you try to use an iOS/MacOS formatted card with Windows. I don’t think any of these issues are created deliberately to make life harder for people, but I do think each player has their own ideas and optimisations around how text should be handled. If you want easy text transfer, send plain text by email. Job done.
 
W2u7Yw4HaD said:
I doubt the magnetic band will see the light of day, due to easily coming loose during vigorous activity. There is then the fact it will make the compass useless at the same time. So I call BS on these claims around all magnetic latching. Already I have occasional issues with my Milanese loop coming loose sometimes.
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I agree. And the greater possibility of your watch coming loose and falling of cause  to exclude that from AppleCare?
 
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