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Who else is sick of the stagnant watch faces?

I am such a rut guy that I pretty much use the same face all the time. I have all these others but they just sit there for looks I guess. I'll change one then within an hour I'm back to my regular face. Same with bands. Apple Sport bands on hole 3 are absolutely perfect for my wrist. Any other one I try doesn't last. Within an hour or so I go right back to my sports band.
 
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GlenK said:
I am such a rut guy that I pretty much use the same face all the time. I have all these others but they just sit there for looks I guess. I'll change one then within an hour I'm back to my regular face. Same with bands. Apple Sport bands on hole 3 are absolutely perfect for my wrist. Any other one I try doesn't last. Within an hour or so I go right back to my sports band.
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If I had access to Modular Ultra that would be my Series 10 watch face 99% of the time.
 
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DBR2025 said:
Everyone seems to be completely oblivious to status when it comes to why people choose Apple.

No one wears an Apple Watch and is telling themselves a story about how the product isn't a luxury item.

Same with owning any luxury watch. Just to tell the time? Please - I don't know if there are some strong trolls on here or something strange is going on.

Example... from one of the replies to my original message (their sig). Why would someone boast about their stack of apple products? Great list of status symbols.

2020 MBA M1 8/8 - iPad Air 5th - iPhone 14 Pro Max - Watch Ultra (1)
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You are very motivated by advertising your status, much more than others probably. Apple as a status symbol is why you choose their products. That is so foreign to me.

You're right about me, I don't tell myself a story about how the product isn't a luxury item. In fact, I don't even think about whether the product is a luxury item. I took a Lyft yesterday and noticed the driver wearing an Apple watch. It didn't even occur to me to draw a conclusion about his status. I also noticed he was wearing a cap on his head - that made more of an impression.

I wear a nicer mechanical watch almost all the time. But, I rarely wear it out of the house. I don't think my wife of 40 years draws any conclusion about my status when she sees me wearing it. When I do go out, I might put on my Apple watch if I'll need help unlocking my phone while wearing a mask or paying for something. I don't make the decision based on the status I want to advertise.

Some people list the items they own in their sig to say something about their history with Apple or express some camaraderie with other users. Not everyone is bragging when they try to communicate something.

It's hard to imagine others as being so different than oneself.
 
DBR2025 said:
Everyone seems to be completely oblivious to status when it comes to why people choose Apple.

No one wears an Apple Watch and is telling themselves a story about how the product isn't a luxury item.
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A Rolex watch is a luxury item. Apple watch Hermes and Hermes bands probably count as luxury items. The ceramic/steel/titanium models -- maybe, maybe not. The aluminum ones, I don't think count as luxury items at all. They are just utility gadgets.

EDIT: I should add that I've always had the aluminum models. It never made sense for me to pay extra for the more premium models.
 
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Before I picked up my v6 Apple Watch, I fully expected there’d be a robust market of famous, historical, and custom watch faces, and I still think it’s a crippled market without it, literally nothing at all. I assume the famous Swatch Group (Omega, Glashutte, etc), Rolex, and premium boutique brands would rather not have their stylistic identities mashed into digital watches, and I’m absolutely sure there’d be an explosive legal industry of suing digital watch face designers for “look & feel” claims. Maybe somebody’s working on this problem at the glacial pace it would require, but it’ll always leave me feeling that smart watches are a limping product category.
 
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Another thing that's so bizarre to me is that last year's iOS update had this big push where you can drastically customize how your home screen looks. You can change move the widgets/app icons around and place them exactly how you want them.

Meanwhile on the Apple Watch:
"Hey can I move the time on Infograph Modular so that it's in the center instead of the top right?"

"No"
 
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svenmany said:
You are very motivated by advertising your status, much more than others probably. Apple as a status symbol is why you choose their products. That is so foreign to me.

You're right about me, I don't tell myself a story about how the product isn't a luxury item. In fact, I don't even think about whether the product is a luxury item. I took a Lyft yesterday and noticed the driver wearing an Apple watch. It didn't even occur to me to draw a conclusion about his status. I also noticed he was wearing a cap on his head - that made more of an impression.

I wear a nicer mechanical watch almost all the time. But, I rarely wear it out of the house. I don't think my wife of 40 years draws any conclusion about my status when she sees me wearing it. When I do go out, I might put on my Apple watch if I'll need help unlocking my phone while wearing a mask or paying for something. I don't make the decision based on the status I want to advertise.

Some people list the items they own in their sig to say something about their history with Apple or express some camaraderie with other users. Not everyone is bragging when they try to communicate something.

It's hard to imagine others as being so different than oneself.
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Status is the story you’re telling yourself. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are 100% telling yourself a story.

Is it going up, staying the same or going down.

If no one cared about the things you’ve listed, we’d all be using the cheapest smart phone/laptops available and be done with it.

You’re painting humans as rational and logically behaving creatures.
 
I would love to see some digital watch faces with hours, minutes, and seconds clearly displayed - something like one would see on a digital Casio watch. I've only found a single watch face that shows that - "Activity Digital".

I'm often watching log files as I debug things or going around my house setting my mechanical clocks. A simple digital display is all that works for me. I really would enjoy some variety.

Oh, and I want to pick the timezone for the main time displayed. I would love to always read UTC during my work hours since all my log files are in that timezone.

Most developments from Apple are watch faces that are artistically new rather than functionally new. I'm not sick of the stagnant watch faces, but I did hope for more than what Apple gives.
 
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svenmany said:
I would love to see some digital watch faces with hours, minutes, and seconds clearly displayed - something like one would see on a digital Casio watch. I've only found a single watch face that shows that - "Activity Digital".

I'm often watching log files as I debug things or going around my house setting my mechanical clocks. A simple digital display is all that works for me. I really would enjoy some variety.

Oh, and I want to pick the timezone for the main time displayed. I would love to always read UTC during my work hours since all my log files are in that timezone.

Most developments from Apple are watch faces that are artistically new rather than functionally new. I'm not sick of the stagnant watch faces, but I did hope for more than what Apple gives.
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Module Ultra allows this. On it, I only see the full time, date, and a complication with activity rings. All in a single color too.
 
roguester said:
Module Ultra allows this. On it, I only see the full time, date, and a complication with activity rings. All in a single color too.
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Is that only for the Apple Watch Ultra? I don't see such a face in the list I'm scanning through.
 
svenmany said:
Is that only for the Apple Watch Ultra? I don't see such a face in the list I'm scanning through.
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Yes. Exclusive to Ultra. The S10 has a screen that big and a better CPU than the Ultra but doesn't get to use this face, which is the closest to the Casio layout you and I both want.
 
MisterSavage said:
That's the one I use the most but I dislike it. I don't want the time in the top right corner and I don't want an enormous complication in the center.
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Yeah I'm not sure why module ultra can't be done for the regular watch. I really like the time in the middle.
 
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roguester said:
Yeah I'm not sure why module ultra can't be done for the regular watch. I really like the time in the middle.
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So do I. The digital time in the middle (horizontally) should be standard for a digital watch face with tons of variations. Yet standard Apple Watch users get none. It makes no sense.
 
roguester said:
Apple's way of gatekeeping the Ultra.
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Look at industries there is often something that people would like but is only available on the next model up.

Take my car for example, I’d really like memory settings on the electric seats.
But that isn’t an option on my model, I’d need to go up a model.

Frustrating and maybe annoying, but I guess it’s business.
 
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CyberDavis said:
Look at industries there is often something that people would like but is only available on the next model up.

Take my car for example, I’d really like memory settings on the electric seats.
But that isn’t an option on my model, I’d need to go up a model.

Frustrating and maybe annoying, but I guess it’s business.
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Right, but electric seats could be considered a luxury item and you could justify having to pay more for them.

Doing that for what should be a standard digital watch face is absurd. Especially for people who don't a want watch as big as an Ultra or as expensive as an Ultra.

I agree very frustrating and annoying.
 
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MisterSavage said:
Right, but electric seats could be considered a luxury item and you could justify having to pay more for them.

Doing that for what should be a standard digital watch face is absurd. Especially for people who don't a want watch as big as an Ultra or as expensive as an Ultra.

I agree very frustrating and annoying.
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And then Apple's design team says it wasn't enough room on the regular watch for the watch face
 
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And then Apple's design team says it wasn't enough room on the regular watch for the watch face
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The S10 has a screen as big as an Ultra.

For the others it would be so easy to remove that outer ring and make the time shorter.

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roguester said:
Oh I meant that as a hypothetical response if they ever came up with an excuse.
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Oh, lol. Gotcha! I'm so used to getting responses such as "it's called modular ULTRA for a reason". As if that's justification for a standard digital watch face to be locked to a large, expensive watch. :D
 
MisterSavage said:
The S10 has a screen as big as an Ultra.

For the others it would be so easy to remove that outer ring and make the time shorter.

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That picture is a good example of where Apple could have made a choice to eliminate the ring showing the seconds and replace it with digital seconds. They made the more artistic choice. I do like the look a lot, but it adds a mental load to quickly come up with a number.

When I'm watching logs, I have conversions to make. I'm on the west coast. Some logs are east coast time. Some logs are UTC. I am always having to add 5 hours, or 8 hours, or 7 hours (if daylight savings time). And, the UTC logs are in 24 hour format. The mental load is quite high for me. Having my watch just tell me the full time in big numbers would help. As it is now, I just don't use my Apple watch for that at all. I did find a multi timezone clock with full digital display for macOS and just use that.
 
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