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

[UltimaKilo]

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.

It’s a fitness tracker, first and foremost. It has little use beyond that and as a timepiece.

They should put 90% of the AW R&D time into finding a way to significantly increase battery life and 10% into increasing screen size.

It’s called physics. There’s not much they can do with modern tech apart from significantly increasing the battery size. It is good enough at the point.

For me Ultra 2 plus Blood Sugar + Blood Pressure monitor would seal the deal but won’t rush it to own it since I already bought Ultra 2 recently (about 6 months back). Otherwise, my Apple Watch is perfect for me, bought several Titanium Straps from eBay and online sources which are really looking great. Ultra construction looks very solid with Titanium frame and Safire glass. I could attend calls, send SMS, voice memos. I think too much beyond that will probably kill its already fantastic battery life (my Galaxy Watch 6 Classic could not come near in terms of battery life)

The question was what you expected in 2024 and you’re asking for tech that is many, many years away, possibly a decade or more.

Maybe they should consider not releasing a new watch every year… There is only so much a watch can do and there would likely be much more interest if they waited until they had a solid new feature set.

18 month cycle seems perfect for the watch, so I agree with you there.

Something more than 2012

Like? The Apple Watch didn’t even exist in 2012.

 

[Premium1]

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 agree. Seems like they are letting it ride out the hype it had and doing nothing to make it have that "WOW" factor it had at launch. I get it is a watch, but the design has looked the same since like gen 4.

 

[Ratlerbite]

So basically it’s the same watch as the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before. BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGG!

Yes. Like the phones and the iPads and the Mac’s.

 

[jicon]

There’s always been cpu and battery limits on the Apple Watch, meaning lacklustre faces to choose, and third party complication compromises… you’d figure by now they could be larger, and update more than 180 times a day.

A larger battery, and loss of the update complication limitation would get me to upgrade from my series 3.

Because of that complication restriction, I’m basically limited to three watch faces that can display data that doesn’t follow the complication rule (Apple’s Calendar app), but use it to display blood sugar from a CGM.

While on that subject, given modern invasive CGMs at best have a MARD of 9% of actual values, I’d suggest something on device that has enough trouble tracking blood oxygen and calorie burn will at best indicate something might be off, go see a doctor.

If you’re already checking blood sugar often, a first gen attempt measured by a watch won’t nearly be as decent as a $100 14 day sensor.

 

[cjsuk]

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.

you don’t have to pedal that though.

 

[Yammabot]

It’s a fitness tracker, first and foremost. It has little use beyond that and as a timepiece.

It’s called physics. There’s not much they can do with modern tech apart from significantly increasing the battery size. It is good enough at the point.

The question was what you expected in 2024 and you’re asking for tech that is many, many years away, possibly a decade or more.

18 month cycle seems perfect for the watch, so I agree with you there.

Like? The Apple Watch didn’t even exist in 2012.

If that’s your take away you didn’t even read the original post.

 

[Robert.Walter]

So basically it’s the same watch as the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before. BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGG!

Rolex has entered the chat.

 

[9081094]

Rolex has entered the chat.

At least a Rolex keeps its value. It’s analog and not digital. Quality never goes out of style. Digital technology gets overhauled each year. Except Apple with its slow poke development.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

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 found the opposite. I use the Apple Watch as a tool, and every day since my first v1 Apple Watch I have found it more and more useful. When the AW Ultra came out it was pretty much perfect for me and remains so. If I forget to put it on after a shower or sleeping I miss it fairly quickly when I go to use the tool and it is not there.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

At least a Rolex keeps its value. It’s analog and not digital. Quality never goes out of style. Digital technology gets overhauled each year. Except Apple with its slow poke development.

Sure, if one wants to ostentatiously brag wealth they can wear heavy gold chains or a pricey Rolex. So? An AW Ultra [to me] is a tool, besting any Rolex in that regard.

 

[Tomasulu]

At least a Rolex keeps its value. It’s analog and not digital. Quality never goes out of style. Digital technology gets overhauled each year. Except Apple with its slow poke development.

I remember reading an article about how Joni consulted watch makers and horologists when designing the Apple Watch. I was confused, what’s the relevance of luxury mechanical timepieces to a tech product with sensors and battery? And when they revealed the gold Apple Watch I was just dumbfounded. Pure hubris.