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One of my favorite colors!
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Yeah, it’s not too far of a drive or a flight. I might be able to go up there- got nothing better to do this month, and I’ve always wanted to go!
My pic is so amateurish compared to what you guys post, but I wanted to share my collection finally.
Ooh. I like the Lakers and would totally wear one Flash and one Ultra Violet. Or if I was an LSU or Vikings fan!
Ooh! Jealous of your leather collection..
that's a nice collection, a variety of colors and band options!
If you happen to go up there, would you please help me to check out if they still have the double your medor as well?
Thank you in advance!
That's a real nice collection, definitely not on the Amateurish side of things! For sure, something to be proud of!
I’m sure they’ll have some. I might be able to ship you one. Just have to check shipping rates.
That’s what I asked him as well, you’ll be after me in line 😁😁😁
Thank you so much!!
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Haha hope they have more than 2 left! 🤪
I ordered Hermes Cuff band today. Still cannot believe my eyes. 
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Do you remember how people reacted when they switched to lightning...not happening. The watch would have to get extremely thin to warrant this.
I got Hermes Cuff band today. Still cannot believe my eyes. For 125£!
Wow, that is some band. Impressive.
Thank you!
Yes, Ultraviolet is my next buy definitely (if I’m lucky enough to get one).
People yelled about it for a month or two. Then, they got over it and kept buying Apple products. If you look at Apple’s success today compared to 2012, I doubt they see the response to the lighting connector as a cautionary tale.
Apple has never had a hard time removing a legacy port/connector when it becomes a design limitation. Nobody can really say when that will be with the Watch. Might be next year or it might not be for several more generations to come. But, the moment the current band connector becomes the factor preventing Apple from making a desired change in the design of the Watch, the connector will be gone. Apple will weather bad press for a few months while it happily sells new bands to people upgrading their Watches.
I’m not saying the lightning freakout was justified but to with one flick of a wand make obsolete everyone’s collection...I’m just saying it’s absurd it would happen before, say, a fifth body design?
I certainly hope you’re right! I’d like to keep my bands for several more years, especially since I just switched to Space Black with the S5 and essentially started my band collection over from scratch.
It's Apple we're talking about so who knows. They were willing to ditch the headphone jack, drop all the different ports on the MacBook and switch completely to USB-C, etc. And as much as I hate to say it, as band collectors we are only but a small minority compared to other Apple Watch users. The average user probably only has 2-3 bands tops.
Also, I'm not arguing for Apple to change the band mechanism. I'm just saying it's only a matter of time before they change it.
I fully grant that I have a Clifford-sized dog in this fight...but I just don’t see how technology comes into it beyond the wizardry of achieving a thinner body (which they’ve pumped the brakes on since Jony’s no good very bad keyboard...which I actually liked, RIP the MacBook Adorable)...I think it just comes down to shape and if the series 4/5 is “what they envisioned from the start,” it’s probably here to stay, much like the water-polished roundrects “pebbles” across the lineup.
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Yeah but there’s still something that just wouldn’t smell right if they’re pushing so many new bands every year, which sends a message slightly beyond everyone just having 2-3...hopefully it’s clear I’m coming more from a “trying to read into the heated debates that would go on inside Apple” than a wishful thinking POV.
I honestly do not know what path Apple will take. Hoping that if they change, they or another company will make some kind of adapter so we can continue to use our bands. May be wishful thinking on my part, but hey, one can hope.....
Yeah I thought the same too. However, they introduce new iPhone cases seasonally as well and that didn't stop them for changing the phone's design every other year and making the older cases obsolete. Personally I think Apple's Marketing would fit tooth and nail to keep backwards compatibility but their IDg would fight to have it changed.
The above makes complete sense. Until you consider the mechanism.
It’s a beautiful piece of engineering that is close to perfect, and it’s hard to see how it could be improved. It’s simple, extremely low profile (certainly so much so it couldn’t be made much lower), it allows bands that look like traditional watch bands with lugs as well as a simpler style like Sport Bands. It enables bands of the scale of conventional watch bands, and there’s already a connector in the slot that could potentially be used for smart bands.
The only real downside is that it wouldn’t work well with a round watch body, but look at the round smart watches available - they look like small clocks, and there’s the reason lots of people won’t wear them.
As someone said above, watch design is limited by human biology in a far more restrictive way than other products are. Also the band interface is mechanical and mechanics isn’t an evolving field like microelectronics is. Sure they could change it, but only if they have to, and I think they will resist doing so, not look for a reason to do it, and there is no need to change.
Considering the money spinner that bands are for Apple, and how many collectors there are - why does Apple release new colours every quarter? To fuel collectors. No other reason makes sense. Otherwise they’d just make a handful of colours all the time.
I actually think that was the original idea; why else were the OG bands have been called Blue, Green, Pink, White and Black with no embellishment? The idea of many more colours came later and that it’s perpetuated still tells me it makes more money than not doing it. Otherwise why take on the cost and hassle of coming up with new colours and managing the logistics of ramping up production and getting it to retail outlets, run out old stock etc?
If the band connector is changed the whole collecting premise is destroyed. I won’t invest thousands of dollars in a new collection if Apple obsoletes my current one, and I’m sure others are the same. It would kill the band market as we know it.
Could it change? Yes, But only if there is a real benefit that makes that truly the only option.
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Phones are not the same thing at all. Not even relevant to the watch band mechanism discussion.
You’ve not identified anything wrong with the current one. Nothing. That’s because you can’t. Because there is nothing wrong with it. Nobody at Apple wants to change it for the sake of changing it.
Well my Nike midnight turquoise/aurora green sport band arrived today.....and I was disappointed. Bummer, but as soon as I opened the package I knew it wasn’t for me. So it was returned.
On a positive note, I found a ‘Light pink’ sport band on eBay and jumped on it. Can’t wait to see it as I’ve been after a nice soft pink for a while and ‘pink sand’ doesn’t do it for me.
If anyone is looking for a 40mm sunshine sport loop that’s been worn twice and been sitting in a drawer since let me know!!
On a positive note, I found a ‘Light pink’ sport band on eBay and jumped on it. Can’t wait to see it as I’ve been after a nice soft pink for a while and ‘pink sand’ doesn’t do it for me.
If anyone is looking for a 40mm sunshine sport loop that’s been worn twice and been sitting in a drawer since let me know!!
You’re gonna love it, I stumbled into one a few weeks ago and it’s bubble gum perfection!