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Some Customers Unhappy With Apple Watch Series 7 Color Options
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I like them too.
Hate and expressing outrage is the new normal. It helps some people get through the day. And provides a feeling of having power.
Segmenting Space Black into Hermes only for stainless steel pisses me off to no end.
Yeah, their colors are all off this year. Apple really needs to work on coordinating across product lines. It shouldn’t be that hard to get a green that matches across iPad, Apple Watch, and iPhone. I’m not even talking about the device, I’m just talking about accessories!
And of course the outrage is focused not on the lack of colors but rather the inability to buy the colors that are available elsewhere. They must be furious at their government for not providing incentives to Apple to bring those colors to their country and not with Apple because at least they made them.
I’d have to agree with your second point. I wouldn’t say that Apple has gotten sloppier in the last 20 years more akin to the early days, I just think it’s a much more complicated landscape now compared to then. That doesn’t excuse the clear mismatch in color, that’s a big oversight, but I still think Apple is moving in good directions.
And yea with regard to color, how many variants of space gray are there alone? Download the app Bandbreite and look through how many variations of color we’ve released in bands year over year; Apple isn’t the best with colors or names haha
Not everyone is “hating” when they express displeasure or lament. The interwebs have devalued the meaning of hate to a ridiculous degree.
For me, I was going to buy my wife a “black/dark gray” S7 because that’s what she wanted to replace her S3. But now because we don’t know what the colors look like in person, we need to visit and Apple store once they arrive, and then decide if buying one is even an option.
I was also looking at a silver S7 to replace my S4, but probably will wait until next year.
By removing those basic options they have created hesitant loyal customers who may skip the updates they were planning.
Reminds me of the 70s with green, beige, mustard and brown appliances that turned off lots of customers.
How is this a freaking story? "Not 100% of people are satisfied...here's a headline for that minority"
how is this goldish? are people colorblind or something?
If only other responses were as well-reasoned and free of sky-is-falling and other race-to-the-bottom juvenile burns as yours.
As an aside, I suspect introducing new colors was well-researched and likely chosen to reach customers who are looking for a little more pizazz regarding color. I think they're all great. My dilemma is choosing the "right" one.
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True. But there are some people who like silver things no matter what the trendy colors are. And others who prefer dark colors devoid of hue.
My guess is starlight is very similar to white gold, which is fine. My wife and I have WG wedding bands.
But no matter what the current trend, car companies always sell white and black cars. And bath fixtures are always offered in chrome. Locksets always offered in polished brass.
Metal watches are always offered in silver color, be it titanium or stainless or white gold. Sport watches are always offered in black or silver. That’s over a century of history for a reason.
I may just get my wife an SE instead. She doesn’t care about always on watchface or blood sugar. So we save $120…
Let’s hope they go back to a true dark blue for Series 8. This muted blue looks stupid, and I wish Apple would get over its fear of striking color choices. Everyone loved the deep green iPhone 11, yet we haven’t seen that color since. Why? The blue Series 6 sold like gangbusters, so what does Apple do? They F with the shade because Apple can’t help itself. I wish Apple would just do like car companies in regards to color: stock some popular primaries and give buyers the option to wait a month on special order limited colors. I flew out of state to purchase the truck color i wanted, so it’s not like waiting a month or so for the perfect shade of blue would be that big of a deal.
In which case one might end up not getting anything, meaning, don’t buy anything
If you have the link bracelet you are pretty much wed to always getting the stainless steel model.
I have a series 6 in Product(RED) and I was really hoping to get a green 7 with the same hue as the red, but this year, the green hue is much, much darker. I went with the blue instead, though it won't arrive for another 3 weeks. My S6 will be replaced with AppleCare right before I leave for my Appalachian Trail thru hike [the battery is dying, but at the current rate, it will not be covered under warranty until a week or 2 before I leave].
Everything about the S7 launch feels off - heck, has Apple ever had such a color issue with its products before? It's like the color teams didn't communicate during the last year...
Everything about the S7 launch feels off - heck, has Apple ever had such a color issue with its products before? It's like the color teams didn't communicate during the last year...
I‘ve just now realized that Apple also stopped selling the black Solo Loop and black Sports Band. At least with the watch itself you can get upsold to Watch Edition for the matt colors dark grey and silver. But if they don’t offer any black silicon bands anymore, my S6 might be my first and last Apple Watch.
I wonder why people are upset with the lack of gold aluminium when there's gold stainless steel...