Kuo: New Apple Watch Ultra to Launch This Year With 3D-Printed Parts

[kkee]

 

[constantsnags!]

a more important question might be:
what can it do better than the first ultra — why should i upgrade…⁇ 🤔

Probably a new processor this year, which will make everything snappier and the battery life better. Possibly the addition of satellite comms as per the iPhone. Maybe a new finish. Definitely new band colours and options. An improved HR sensor.

 

[Shirasaki]

It’s never going to happen. This is a pointless line of discussion.

Clearly you are not aware of How profit-thirst corporations can be.

 

[constantsnags!]

I’m aware that I’m a former Apple employee and that allowing consumers to assemble Apple branded products using material and parts that have not been rigorously QAd isn’t ever, ever going to happen.

 

[alongdingdong]

I am a happy camper with my Ultra but would like to see a few changes.

1. Get rid of those beefy black borders in the screen
2. Slightly slimmer with the same battery capacity
3. reduce the crown area

I find the software to be a bit buggy as well to be frank, screen does weird stuff sometimes with notifications and such.

But i would like to see the ultra get a bit reduced in fatness.

 

[constantsnags!]

I am a happy camper with my Ultra but would like to see a few changes.

1. Get rid of those beefy black borders in the screen
2. Slightly slimmer with the same battery capacity
3. reduce the crown area

I find the software to be a bit buggy as well to be frank, screen does weird stuff sometimes with notifications and such.

But i would like to see the ultra get a bit reduced in fatness.

Yeah agreed on all points. It’s a big unit - I actually felt it larger on the wrist than my Fenix 7XSS. In saying that, I’m still buying it again this year haha (I sent it back after ten days first time around).

 

[jahsavi]

Apple Watch Ultra 2040:

Apple just sends you the watch plans and your print out your watch on your 3D printer that is next to your Kurieg 9000

No more “bean to cup” it’s “spool to cup” lol

I really believe it’s all about “what you see.” Once Apple Vision is released. The need for watches, iPads etc won’t matter. You can just augment it into your vision onto your wrist

 

[glsillygili]

I can't understand how it can be cheaper

 

[Nathan King]

Only if you don’t understand the process.

I’ll be the first to admit that I have no firsthand knowledge of the process. Apple typically machines material, which is a subtractive process. 3D printing is nearly the opposite process and not a space I was aware Apple had a lot of experience designing for.

 

[Born Again]

Largest case in the Apple Watch range. It caters to the rotund perfectly well.

That’s fair

 

[dgdosen]

In the future, we just buy the license to 3D print Apple products ourselves.

This is the idea espoused by Steve Jurvetson - manufacturing processes are all converging, and in the end, you'll be paying for the design/IP. I think he said about $1 per pound for stuff (that idea makes it memorable). A bag of chips - $1/pound, a car $1/pound...

 

[Ch3ckM4te]

I really want the new Apple Watch Ultra (2023) to look like this. ✨

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Dope!

 

[Razorpit]

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I have a Prusa Mini. I have to figure out what magical material that is! 😂

 

[constantsnags!]

I’ll be the first to admit that I have no firsthand knowledge of the process. Apple typically machines material, which is a subtractive process. 3D printing is nearly the opposite process and not a space I was aware Apple had a lot of experience designing for.

I didn’t mean that to sound the way it looks ahah! There are a great many super demanding applications that use titanium sintering and vacuum forming - the canards on the Eurofighter Typhoon, for example. It’s an incredibly precise method of producing parts that are impossible to create in any other way. I reckon that the process will be highlighted during the launch, if indeed it has been used.

 

[SipperGW]

Probably a new processor this year, which will make everything snappier and the battery life better. Possibly the addition of satellite comms as per the iPhone. Maybe a new finish. Definitely new band colours and options. An improved HR sensor.

thanks.
so not really a reason to upgrade…
…i'll then wait 'til they're able to measure blood pressure…

 

[constantsnags!]

Given the intended use case of the Ultra, the satellite SOS will be a lot more valuable. Your BP measurement is a great thing to have a longer term view of but it’s highly unlikely/not going to save your life while out on the trail.