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Gurman: Major ‘Apple Watch X’ redesign coming as soon as next year, testing magnetic band attachments (9to5mac.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I’m sure if Apple decides it’s worthy to ship it‘s going to be an improvement, but I can’t imagine how any sort of magnetic attachment could be strong enough to hold a watch to your arm.

I had the Milanese loop, which has a magnetic closing mechanism, and while biking on cobblestone it basically fell right off. How on earth should that be strong enough for mountain biking, diving, surfing, and all the other things Apple loves to show in their ads?

I highly doubt we’ll see that, but I’m happy to see radical changes to the watch itself.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, the Milanese is supposed to be a fashion band not a sports band so they didn’t design it to hold during extreme activities. I’m sure Apple has resources to design a magnetic band that can hold firm during sports activities.

    That said I think a lot of people including myself use our ultras just as regular watches and aren’t skydiving or 40m under water with them so they could be looking at moderate activity closures too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    When the Milanese loop magnet fell away, the watch was still dangling from my wrist. I’m sure other magnetic bands are holding up better, but I don’t think it’s acceptable to even have a 0.5% chance of your watch just falling away from your wrist, because the band detached, wrecking your 500$ watch. I also don’t think it’s going to be a "just don’t shake it too hard“-kind of solution; besides, they’ll want to have the same attachment mechanism across all watches to keep the bands compatible (for the same sizes).

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