Report: Apple Watch Series 10 to Offer Larger Screens and Faster Chip, but New Health Features in Trouble

[Yammabot]

What are you all expecting an Apple Watch to be able to do in 2024?

Something more than 2012

 

[Yammabot]

They spent 30 billion on R&D in 2023. Is this the new narrative people are running with? They’re not spending enough?

They are just not spending right! It’s not dollars spent, it’s dollars used correctly. Good designers good programers, people make the difference!

 

[aParkerMusic]

AW continues to be my favorite Apple device, but, new health features are really needed ...

It’s your favorite device but it desperately needs new features?

Fascinating.

 

[mlody]

I have a 6 and I'm bored with mine too. I use it to track my workouts and leave it off to charge at night. I have no 3rd party apps installed and have all notifications disabled except calls.

I have S4 SS and I feel the same. I pretty much use it for Apple Pay and message notifications. Most of the time the watch will remind me to turn on the walk workout when I am out walking the dogs cause I don't even bother turning it on anymore by myself.

 

[platinumaqua]

Seems like another one of those years - when Apple runs out of ideas, they opt to make the thing bigger and/or thinner

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

Another S model😢

Apple watch series 0 SSSSSSSSSSS

 

[Rogifan]

I know this is just me but I find myself just not interested in my AW anymore. Haven’t upgraded since the 7 and I find myself wanting fewer notifications instead of more. I mainly use it for sleep tracking now. Just me I know. Just bored with it. I wear it less and less. Just at night now really.

I have a 6 and I'm bored with mine too. I use it to track my workouts and leave it off to charge at night. I have no 3rd party apps installed and have all notifications disabled except calls.

What would make a watch not boring? I use mine for tracking activity/workouts, weather, alarms/timers and sleep tracking. I wear it and mostly forget about it. I doubt Apple is assuming it’s something you’d be constantly playing with.

 

[JCCL]

Or maybe they won’t do special anniversary releases at all? Imagine that!

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. They don’t do this for most products. Only for iPhone X, yet everyone believed they would do for the Watch.

 

[nordique]

At least health features are safe for Canadians (for now)

 

[rcarter3636]

Every October we hear how the NEXT AW will be the biggest upgrade yet.
Then a few months before the release……NOT!

 

[svish]

Excited to hear more about the 10th anniversary edition of the watch. Larger screen matching Ultra 2 screen will be good.

 

[peneaux]

Problem is they’re figuring a way to make people spend more money on the watch. Let’s make the screen bigger.

Why not focusing on thinner device, longer battery life. Few notifications?

 

[Ramchi]

Problem is they’re figuring a way to make people spend more money on the watch. Let’s make the screen bigger.

Why not focusing on thinner device, longer battery life. Few notifications?

Ultra 2 has good battery life and it is not thin. It has enough notifications. What it lacks is some health measurement tools like BP and Blood Sugar. Otherwise, Ultra 2 is almost a complete product.

 

[avro707]

Problem is they’re figuring a way to make people spend more money on the watch. Let’s make the screen bigger.

Why not focusing on thinner device, longer battery life. Few notifications?

I think the screen is large enough, just needs more health notifications.

I have the ultra already.

 

[Kiwamu]

I wish Apple would focus mor about battery life than just adding gimmick after gimmick that eats into the battery gains of a new chip.

 

[Col4bin]

They spent 30 billion on R&D in 2023. Is this the new narrative people are running with? They’re not spending enough?

All that R&D spend went down the drain apparently with Vision Pro.

 

[9081094]

What kind of R&D is even needed to increase screen size? Are there any technological hurdles to figure out? Seems like it’s just a matter of whatever size Apple wants to do. So what I wonder is why is there a size bump every couple years? Are they really still changing their mind about what ideal size is, or is demand for watch size actually changing and they’re just reacting?

I think it is the most cheap form of change for Apple. Minimal R&D costs and able to brag with the introduction that they’ve changed the whole AW. Same is happening with iPhones, iPads, Mac’s, etc. Invest the minimum and charge the maximum. This is Timmy’s thinking.

 

[9081094]

All that R&D spend went down the drain apparently with Vision Pro.

And project titan. Seems like Apple is not being able to keep up with competition on all fronts.

 

[spazzcat]

Gurman, I sound important but I really don't know anything.

 

[Sherry Livingston]

Series 0 - Series 3 - Series 4 - Series 9. All the Apple Watches I have bought.

My wallet obviously thanks Apple for the lack of innovation.

But on the other hand, I do love my Apple Watch and pretty much the only thing I hope it would do better is the battery life.

 

[aknabi]

The number of people (in this thread alone) who appear to exhibit existential ennui because a smart-watch is "boring" is, frankly, absolutely hilarious.

Since my Apple Watch does what I need and my life does not revolve around always buying the latest gadgets, I am quite happy with "boring." And truth be told, most people are.

Yeah... haven't heard the Rolex crowd whining nonstop about the Submariner being "boring"... or impacting values... thinner... sure would be nice... but really what is most important is battery life, then features and functions that make sense on your wrist, then thickness... maybe some more case color options last? Of course that's just like my opinion, man...

 

[vmistery]

I’m still on my S5 and I’m after a reason to upgrade this year. Apple need to be communicating why I should upgrade as at the moment I’m not really seeing much.

 

[CausticSoda]

Fine, whatever, no temptation to update my watch for at least another year.

 

[cocky jeremy]

I'll probably buy one just because my Apple Watch battery life is bad now. I have a 7.. or 8. I don't even remember which it is.

 

[albebaubles]

Yeah there as well. Actually I took my iPad Pro and my Apple Watch on holiday recently and found both devices to be a net negative for me. For the sake of keeping the thread on topic, I will speak only of the watch though. Dragging the charging puck around and the attention it requires to keep it alive was irritating for the net gain of it telling me how many flights of stairs I walked up in Valletta (spoiler: lots). If I’m out hiking it’s pretty useless because the display is unusable when it’s wet. If it’s a hot day it is uncomfortable. If I’m cycling it’s impossible to use as it needs two hands.

The only utility it really has is telling the time and I’ve got a perfectly good Casio for that which doesn’t need charging up every day.

When I saw this announcement I decided to have a look in the thread and was not surprised to see interest attrition.

I can invoke features on my watch using Siri hauling a** down the freeway on my super loud Harley. Setup my app to start a trip, pause, sto-p and even take a photo remotely on the phone.