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Here Are All of the New Apple Watch Faces Apple Announced Today
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What are you talking about? Lots of Apple's watch faces are terrible and tacky. And what cultural background are you talking about? How is a Mickey watch face better than a Star Wars themed one? Or those animated jellyfish/butterfly ones? And how is Nike related to the watch culture?
Watches are very personal devices and people want more customisation. The only reason they do it is so they can force people to buy certain models in order to acquire a certain type of watch face.
Ah yes, because the Toy Story face certainly carries elements of the cultural history of the watch...
Jobs was a founder of Pixar. Doesn’t really explain Mikey Mouse or Nike though. Maybe he liked Little Mermaid and running.
Still no API for 3rd party watch faces 
. And not sure if the battery life improved any. If not, will leave opening for competition. Not that competition has focus.
. And not sure if the battery life improved any. If not, will leave opening for competition. Not that competition has focus.
They could curate the watch faces just as they curate app submissions. obvious copyright infringement would easily be weeded out.
It would be nice if we could just get some other designs, focused on more information rather than just apple's way or the highway. Even with the larger screens since the S4, the information is still limited because they have to cater for people of all kinds and people with worse eyesight as well.
I would like denser information, my eye sight is excellent.
I’d rather have fugly hands than a fugly face.Why can’t they come up with some new hands? The existing ones are fugly, clownish. Every watch face has the same fugly hands.
their *NEW* products just the same as their speakers of the event, without anything new yet pretending you have the best piece in the world, makes me sick. What happened to Apple now?
Because it's Apple! It's not about what their customers want, it's about what Apple tell their customers they want.
Those animated faces are the dumbest they’ve made yet
I'm totally there with you. Updated and saw the one face change and really wondered why for some of the more basic ones. Like Stripes is just an animated/static image, how hard can that be on the old S3.
I really wish they would make some kind of "Watch Studio" app for Mac, iPad and iPhone which lets you really go completely custom on a watch face design, build it yourself, share it with friends via attachment in email or iMessage.
No need for them to make a store for them just give us the tool and let us go wild. I'd love that, I'm tired of using the faces they make.
No need for them to make a store for them just give us the tool and let us go wild. I'd love that, I'm tired of using the faces they make.
They sit on each others boards of directors or have some stocks in each others companies.
Tim Cook became a member of Nike‘s board of directors in 2005.
Haha, I always try the new faces... then, within a day or two, I invariably switch back to good old Modular.
Apple: You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.
In all seriousness though Apple has always said what makes their company culture different is that saying no to the right things is just as important as saying yes to the right things. As I watched the keynote today and saw the demos for family setup and Fitness+ I was struck by how thoughtful the experiences are. I honestly don’t believe there is another company on the planet that could pull off that level of integration between hardware, software, and services. And Apple pulls it off year after year. If you missed it, Steven Sinofsky took to Twitter after the Apple silicon announcement and absolutely gushed over the execution of Apple as a company. The thread is worth a read.
All this to say, yeah. I wish my AW3 was getting the new stripes face. And I wish we had a watch face composer so I could craft the perfect face. But if I have to wait a couple more years for that because Apple is busy creating experiences that actually change what my next watch can do and how I will use it... I guess I can keep using the modular face for a while. Honestly I’ve gotten so used to it at this point that even if they had backported the stripes face I’d probably end up switching back to modular after a couple hours anyway.
No Scooby Doo? God Apple...
Or Snoopy! You would think with Snoopy In Space being on Apple+ TV they would have a Snoopy watchface!
Why can’t they come up with some new hands? The existing ones are fugly, clownish. Every watch face has the same fugly hands.
Would have loved some sword hands - a bit like IWC or the classic 22.54 Seamaster
Mickey Mouse watches have been around since the 1930s. And the Nike watch is the most recent iteration of the Apple Nike+ gear, which began with the "Nike+iPod Sports Kit" released in 2006.
Apple has to be careful not to infringe on another company's design, though. Apple learned that lesson the hard way a few years ago, having to pay tens of millions of dollars to license the Swiss Railway clock design after initially copying it without permission.