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Remember the Lower-Cost Apple Watch Series 1? It's Vintage Now
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Bought series 0 for half price as an employee at the time.
Was able to sell it and get the Series 1 at no cost due to good timing, and still use my series 1 til this day.
I found I really only used it for text, various notifications, and telling time. Don’t really think it has really fundamentally changed in all this time outside of better health features.
Am I wrong?
Was able to sell it and get the Series 1 at no cost due to good timing, and still use my series 1 til this day.
I found I really only used it for text, various notifications, and telling time. Don’t really think it has really fundamentally changed in all this time outside of better health features.
Am I wrong?
New batteries for Series 1 are still available, for DIY replacement.Seeing Series 3 for less than $50 on offer up. Someone could pick one up and refresh the battery while it's in the loop.
Still use my Series 2. The extra water resistance has worked well over the years. It's been swimming with me in seas all over the world. It's proven a really tough and durable watch, which handily can pay easily as well, and performs reliably public transport transit mode as well around the world.
Still haven't seen anything in the newer versions that materially improves on my use cases for a watch.
Still haven't seen anything in the newer versions that materially improves on my use cases for a watch.
I wonder that too…
I am sure they sold a few of them. I also wonder if someone might have kept one unopened in the sealed box..?
The problem is that the battery is guaranteed to fail, and it's not really possible to replace it unless Apple does it. Which they won't since it's "obsolete".
If the battery was somehow easier to replace on these things, then you could just keep using it forever until it broke for whatever reason – but there would be no hard limit on its life.
While it's the same problem with iPhones and MacBooks, battery replacements on those are not such a big problem.
If the battery was somehow easier to replace on these things, then you could just keep using it forever until it broke for whatever reason – but there would be no hard limit on its life.
While it's the same problem with iPhones and MacBooks, battery replacements on those are not such a big problem.
All fair points but they aren't day to day uses more like word case background check incase you end up with these issues as you age. Once you've done an ECG and it passed your good, its kind of a non issue for most same with blood oxygen unless you have covid, again crash detection and fall detection is worst case scenario management and if your saying that's a day to day use case for you I would question your own risk management lol
It's a bit of a stretch to say those are day to day use cases which is what you notice using the product. At the end of the day for most people is a watch aka telling the time... notifications and exercise. If its slow and is a pain to use with these key things then that's an issue.
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Sure if one has health problems and the sensors of the later series are necessary there is a different use case. But come on who needs those truly on a day to day basis? And what did one do before that was available on a watch?
Telling the time works perfectly, having smart elements such as reminders and your next appointments pop-up works perfectly. Providing additional convenience like payments through Apple wallet and integration with the transit system also works perfectly. And from the series 2 that waterproofness is fine that you can keep wearing it in the pool, or sea, etc.
When the time comes if it’s broken, or when there is a new shape, I’m sure I’ll get another one. Just can’t imagine measuring an ECG three times a day, or check my blood oxygen levels every three hours. And I’m good of mind that I know when I fall or have fallen.
Cool tech etc but I wish they made a none health version, really no need for all of those sensors.
If you go out and buy an Apple watch for $10.000 money is a non-issue - you have so much you don't know what to spend it on.
I have a Series 3 and I am also super happy with it, it even has a 2 day battery life. It's perfect for tracking my runs, setting a timer, checking the weather and telling me the time. I'd say it has 95% of the features that I need on a daily basis - for example Audible is no longer supported and transferring music to it takes foreeeever
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I started off on an original Apple Watch (later referred to as series 0 when the series 1/2 came out a year later), upgraded that to a series 2 for the GPS and went from that to a series 7. Still got the old series 2 sat in a drawer as the trade in prices for it were so low when I got the 7 that it made more sense to keep the 2 for its spare charging puck and strap.
It's interesting that you "feel" that, because that was never even rumored to be their plan, AFAIK.
Of course it's just some speculation I don't have any insider information nor do I claim to have. That's what a forum is for no?
Just think that by calling the budget model Series 1 where would that have gone in the future. Would the next budget model be Series 2? Because that name had already been taken. It certainly seems plausible to me that there was a plan to go with a different naming scheme to what we ended up with, two series of watches for different price points.
There has been plenty of changes with the naming of the Watches, at launch there was the Sport and Edition, then these were dropped for the Series names. And of course the budget model is now called the SE.
I got one of these through warranty service when my Series 0 battery puffed out - it was definitely a nice upgrade over the Series 0.
Nice. I feel like the Watch Series 3 and Apple TV HD are/were experiments in how long Apple could keep selling a device + how fast their update cycle would outpace it.
The Apple TV HD of course, runs tvOS 17 flawlessly. I'm sure the Series 3 would run WatchOS 10 flawlessly too.... but it would require a physical update along with wipe thanks to the limited space.
They had an article earlier about that model being vintage. Honestly for the price, That model should have modular guts that can be updated every few years. I get a new watch every 2 years, I still haven't spent that amount yet.
You'd have thought that *someone* would have DIY'd series 3 internals (at the very least, since I think it's roughly the same, if not identical form-factor) into one by this point, but I can't find any articles or videos about any such project.