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How to Change the Color of Apple Watch Series 3's Red Digital Crown
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Apple has always had more than its share of buyers who want to look fashionable. It's part of Apple's appeal. So yes, the dot is there to let you know it's the latest and greatest thing.
As for the color, well, the gold Edition Watch also had red.
Personally I think it's all a typical Ive homage (if he were Samsung, we'd call it a rip off) to a digital watch with a spinning control wheel and colored dot, sold by Braun. (I think he sleeps with a Braun / Dieter Rams catalog under his pillow.)
That 2012 Braun digital watch had a yellow dot, but its design won a "Red Dot Design Award". So by making his dot red, he's not directly copying the yellow, but referring to the award the Braun got.
The author either took creative license with facts regarding his Mercedes Benz anecdote or he just made up something to bolster his argument. MB was using that mon-star on cars at least 8 years before the book was published.
Regardless, it doesn't change the overarching point you were making. A point which I agreed with, btw.
I think you might well be spot (sic) on with this explanation. Funny how this sort of “homage” (rip-off) never seem to come up to the level of the original though but just looks wrong or forced.
I don't mind the notch either, it actually gives you a full screen versus having a square screen then putting all the icons at the top which would take away screen real estate.
You do know that you can remove the notch on the iPhone X right? You use a saw and cut it off
Wow, thank you for the insight. I had no idea about any of this except for the fact that Ive looks up to Dieter Rams. I suspect you're right on target with this analysis.
My educated guess is that most people who are not on MR don't give a crap. I'll hold off on that Watchdots stock purchase.
Yeah, but a bad choice was made in this case. It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode, "Oh Georgie, there is a red spot on the sweater." No one could get past it. It just stuck out too much.
Really? It's a red dot on the crown and this isn't the first time Apple has put a red dot on a watch crown because they did it with the yellow gold Edition they made in Series 0.
The watch, by all accounts is selling way faster than they anticipated, especially in the SS variety (which ONLY comes with the red dot). I'm not seeing that most people are bothered enough not to buy it.
For the terminally insecure, there's a solution.
This is what I did. Very simple. Replaced red dot with a Navy Blue nail polish dot as almost every dress shirt I wear for work is some variant of blue.
I had to look at the crown of my series 0 to see what it looked like. I'm sure after day one, I will not notice the red dot on my series 3. Neither will anyone else. I have the crown on the left, bracelets on the right. When I raise my wrist to see the timer, I see the top of the crown, not the center.
Tempest in a teapot.
Tempest in a teapot.