Retail Demo Unit Suggests Apple Considered 'Apple Watch Pro' Branding

I guess every product from apple will have a separate product line.

Regular, Mini, air and pro

We have an regular iPad, an iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad pro.
Imac, Mac mini , MacBook Air and MacBook pro.

I don’ t know how they are going to manage the naming of the iPhones, AirPods and Apple Watch. But it seems that is coming in the near future.
 
I find it extremely hard to believe Apple would create the logo with "Watch" in their new brand font San Francisco, and the "Pro" in their old brand font Myriad. This is what PRO would look like in SF:
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Next year they should release the Apple Watch Pro with professional grade blood-glucose meter and charge the **** out of diabetes people!

Hail to capitalism baby!
 
If Pro = ruggedized, 3+ day battery, and waterproof to 100m, sign me up! I would love a rugged Apple Watch for diving, backpacking, skiing, etc. without worrying about charging, dinging it on a rock face, or swapping for a dive computer.
 
I would be lying to myself if I said I wouldn’t be interested in an Apple Watch Pro… Max

I want a ludicrously big wrist computer so I can feel like a spy from an 80’s cartoon
 
I don’t know why people have a meltdown over ‘Pro’, which has been marketing nomenclature since forever.

”Apple Watch Pro isn’t ‘Pro’ because no pro apps. C’mon Tim, port Final Cut and Logic to WatchOS.“
 
Besides being utterly meaningless now in any practical sense, I can't decide whether the 'Pro' moniker is more silly than cliche, more cliche than silly or just straight up cliche and silly in equal portions.
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
What's a professional watch?
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I make my living telling time. People hire me to determine whether their time pieces are 100% accurate. While the current Apple watches are indeed fine instruments, I would welcome a professional version that’s even better—ideally, accurate down to the nanosecond. (If you have any time pieces that need assessment and calibration, feel free to DM me. My rates are competitive. Please note that I no longer work on sun dials.)
 
Aidoneus said:
For what it’s worth, these demo stations were only ever used for the original (“Series 0”) Apple Watch line (Sport, Watch & Edition).

If the Pro branding was found here, it was likely going to be used for the Series 0 no-modifier Apple Watch. So the collections would have been Sport, Pro and Edition.
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Agreed.

I could easily seeing Apple having decided to brand the Stainless Steel Series 0 models as "Pro" not to reflect an enhanced feature-set (as we now define "Pro" in the Apple ecosystem) but to reflect the higher-quality materials (Stainless Steel and Sapphire) compared to the Sport edition (aluminum and IonX glass).
 
I think the Pro branding makes sense on a few products if they're genuinely intended for the pro market, but not a watch for heaven's sake.
 
Michael Scrip said:
While it's a fair question... you also have to remember that it's 23 years later and Apple now has a billion customers.

They can't get away with only offering one of something anymore.

Hell... Steve Jobs had four (4) different iPods on the market all at once: Shuffle, Nano, Classic, Touch

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All four of those iPod models have distinct use cases… a watch is a watch.
 
Make it a round dial that is 48mm, a battery that lasts 48 hours, and in titanium GPS+cellular only for $1200. I will buy it. I ordered AW7 in graphite SS, but I really wanted an Omega Skywalker X-33 or Breitling Exospace which I can not afford.
 
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Great, I bet any new health features, including glucose monitoring and blood pressure, will only come on the PRO version. Just to extract more money from every Apple customer to increase customer LTV
 
840quadra said:
It's not just Apple. Sony, Google, Xiaomi, Microsoft, Adobe, even Samsung use "Pro" in some of their products and marketing.

Honestly most have nothing to do with Pro (being professional) in any sense, but it is a catch label that consumers seem to like.
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The difference is that for Apple, "Pro" really meant something, unlike these other companies.
 
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