So if you've been buying up watch bands but won't have a watch until next year, this story is for you! 🤣
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Your Apple Watch Bands May Not Work With Next Year's Model
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Not these forum users…they’ll demand Apple use the same connector and cable forever so they don’t have to ever buy another band or cable that came with the device out of one side of their mouth and out of the other complain viciously about Apple’s lack of innovation in each and every generation.
This is place to be for progressive luddites!
to all of you saying 9 years is good enough. Who bought all their bands 9 years ago? Ive spent about 500 on Ultra bands alone. Those aren't 9 effin' years old.
That seems plausible and could be done with the existing attachment so old and "dumb" bands still fit. The idea that the watch needs more real estate for tech is belied by the fact that the Ultra is already much larger than the regular models and changing the band attachment just for a larger battery seems unnecessary to me.Possibly the new band include some connectors for more sensors?
The "leaker" didn't tell us anything other than that the "connector" would be "completely redesigned" but not how it would be redesigned, either because he doesn't know or he knows something he shouldn't know. The part about selling old bands now suggests that they will be incompatible with the new watch but he doesn't explicitly say that either - it's just a hint (more like a taunt).
I think too much is being read into this tweet because the only way the leaker would know for certain is if someone told him something he wasn't supposed to be told. Otherwise he is guessing via the rumor mill. Either way it is unreliable info. Besides, things can still change between now and then.
This misrepresented. Nobody is using bands for that long. It's creating waste.
I'm all for a new design but to say that they had a good run is meaningless when we often replace bands.
If you’ve actually spent $500 on watch bands, that’s on you. You made that choice. Did you seriously expect that Apple was never ever going to change the mechanism that they use to connect watch bands to the watch? We’re talking about a technology company, not a 300 year old watch maker. Ten years of compatibility like this is way better than I expected. If you have an Ultra 1/2 or a Series 9 now, you can expect to get a good 5-7 years use out of your watch before wanting or even “needing” a new one. That Apple is doing this should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.
WHAT THE **** - sorry for the hyperbole, but I know I'm not the only person who thought this when they read the headline LMAO
I like my Apple Watch and I have a Seiko as well. Love it. But most of the time I wear my Apple Watch because of the o formation that it provides me on my wrist. There is a place for both and fortunately there are devotees of other watch brands out there. Apple helped make the Watch relevant again. I hadn’t really worn the Seiko in years, relying on my iPhone, until the Apple Watch was released. It’s not a cut and dry answer for anyone.
Nothing Lasts Forever including human beings.
I assume you’re being cremated or having yourself composted when you pass away, so you won’t be creating waste with a casket, correct?
But they claim they have so much money. A bunch of entitlement individuals around here.
We want change but don't want to pay for it -- Apple users
I'm as harsh an Apple critic as anyone (except, maybe, Louis Rossman) but they're right to do this.
In addition to freeing up space, they'll probably release "smart bands" which to allow sensors and possibly extra run time (like an internal string of tiny battery cells).
In addition to freeing up space, they'll probably release "smart bands" which to allow sensors and possibly extra run time (like an internal string of tiny battery cells).
It will just be a gap/open space, just like when they got rid of the headphone jack (at least for the first ones that lacked it) and the sim card tray in the US for the last 2 generations of iPhones
Things you never have to say about real watches. Real watches even last well beyond 9.5 years.
Wouldn’t changing the band mechanism also go against their whole carbon neutral shtick? There have been a total of 711 bands released up until today with 86 still for sale. What is going to happen to those? If they wanted to show “courage” they would keep one design. At the end of the day it’s a watch. How complicated does it really need to be?
We’ll all see, but if the design isn’t extremely thin or some other compelling reason, it’s just to generate more revenue on bands. The margin on them is probably already insane seeing many of the bands are $99 each.
This goes counter to their whole Carbon Neutral marketing. Do you know how many people have how many bands over the last decade that will immediately be useless and result in waste?