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Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever.
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I don't know how I feel about these. They look a little odd at first glance.
Get me some pics, people!
Get me some pics, people!
Get me some pics, people!
Just ordered the Nike Pride Edition sport band. I think it's going to pair nicely with my white ceramic!
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The stripes on the Pride Edition sport band looks warped and I'm not sure whether that's really how it is or just a bad Photoshop job
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Whoops I take it back - it's intentional. Apparently it's assembled by hand from individual strips of fluoroelastomer and then compression molded together. Really interesting way they are producing the Pride Edition sport band.
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God I really don’t like the standard sport band there. Looks like one of the many printed silicone bands from Amazon/5 Below. It just looks cheap to me.
However that Nike one is DOPE. Ordered immediately. I think just a few pages back we were all talking about how cool it would be for different colored holes on a Nike band. WE GOT IT, I BOUGHT IT.
However that Nike one is DOPE. Ordered immediately. I think just a few pages back we were all talking about how cool it would be for different colored holes on a Nike band. WE GOT IT, I BOUGHT IT.
Is this for real?? At first glance I don’t care for the sport band but the Nike one is pretty.
Edit: ordered the Nike band, which is my first.
In the case of the striped, my concern is the same as yours. However, I’ve ordered it as well based on the safe assumption that Apple must have considered this, and have therefore done a very good job of making it look great in-person. I’m counting on the hero shots being a poor representation, as we have all seen time & time again.
I think they're telling us to expect "imperfections"/variability.
Wonder what the back on the Nike one looks like?
On a related note, wouldn’t it be nice to see a Nike band with perforations having that (rose?) red color (seen in the text on the backside) against the same white base? Very “COVID / for the heroes” look, I’d think.
EDIT: It would also (coincidentally) be a nice fit with the scheme of the Health app icon colors..
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It‘s not printed. Per Apple’s description, it's assembled by hand from individual strips of fluoroelastomer and then compression molded together. Hence each one has unique “imperfections“.
Ya saw that, too. Being devils advocate: An interesting manufacturing process doesn’t guarantee a “win” though! Think of the butterfly keyboard
Alas, as said above, I’ve ordered both with a forced sense of optimism for the stripes.
Ya saw that, too. Being devils advocate: An interesting manufacturing process doesn’t guarantee a “win” though! Think of the butterfly keyboard
Alas, as said above, I’ve ordered both with a forced sense of optimism for the stripes.
If you like the style is another question altogether. I personally don‘t (I think). But it is certainly unique and will absolutely be a million miles apart, quality-wise, from the cheap silicone crap on Amazon/Ebay etc.
OTOH I never had a problem with the butterfly keyboard either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
True enough with respect to the band.
As for the keyboard, you must be exceedingly careful. You would be singing a very different tune though as an Apple technician at a college, where just about every week is spent replacing at least one for a student / employee.
Okay, they did white instead of lavender, but I called it on doing a Nike Pride Band with rainbow holes. I wasn’t sure they could pull it off, or that Nike would buy in, but, thanks Tim Apple, for taking my suggestion - I had no idea you read the MacRumors forums!
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No brainer, next year, I am expecting we get a black pride Nike band. And like Carl said, thank you Tim Apple.
Huh. I find it bizarre as well, but also wonderful. I didn’t expect they had the tech to put together the stripes in a way that both worked and would meet their high standards and could be produced at high volume.
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Ordered both. It’s a shame that the rainbow dots analog face will likely be available only to those who have the Nike watch. Take off then Nike swoosh, and give it a complication or two, and I’d use it a lot.
I’m also more than a little surprised that they did both this year. They could just as easily have done one of these this year and one next year.
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I think the admins need to change the How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only poll, to include 50, 75 and 100+..... More than 20 bands is too easy.
Two more side notes here:
Did anyone else notice the first green-green tones in these pride bands?
Is this the first time we’ve seen any proper “color” (ie. not grayscale shades) be shared between Apple and Nike? It appears to be the exact same colors used in each pride band here.
Did anyone else notice the first green-green tones in these pride bands?
Is this the first time we’ve seen any proper “color” (ie. not grayscale shades) be shared between Apple and Nike? It appears to be the exact same colors used in each pride band here.
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Of course, Apple is mocking us: we ask for nice greens and purples for Sports Bands, they give us a Sports Band with thin strips of nice green and purple - welded onto other colors.
I'm getting greedy and wishing Apple had released an Apple Watch Hermès Pride Edition single/double tour band too. The Hermès watch face would look great with rainbow colors!