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Re: Honey, he shrunk the watches

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Post by tinus_hn » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 7:38 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #60

tinus_hn wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about, it’s thin enough and lasts long enough and Apple needs new features to sell new watches.

Whole sub thread is people saying it isn’t thin enough. Honestly I think the phone and iPad are too thin, and I’d appreciate it if a couple engineers got reassigned. Not the whole team mind you, but just a couple more pairs of eyes would be lovely.

You make it sound like there’s a weight loss program and you can just shuffle some consultants from thinning the iPhone to thinning the Apple Watch.

Never mind of course that Apple doesn’t care what people in the typical Apple threads on HackerNews say. They care what sells.

Re: Honey, he shrunk the watches

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 4:35 PM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #61

hinkley wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whole sub thread is people saying it isn’t thin enough. Honestly I think the phone and iPad are too thin, and I’d appreciate it if a couple engineers got reassigned. Not the whole team mind you, but just a couple more pairs of eyes would be lovely.

You make it sound like there’s a weight loss program and you can just shuffle some consultants from thinning the iPhone to thinning the Apple Watch. Never mind of course that Apple doesn’t care what people in the typical Apple threads on HackerNews say. They care what sells.

The 3G was a watershed moment for the iPhone. The 3Gs was my first one (I love Apple, but they have their flaws. I always buy the 'even numbered' versions where they've done at least one hardware revision on any new design) and a lot of people hopped on around then or the next model.

I feel like the watch is waiting for a similar notch-up in sales.

The other way to go is to make it into a standalone phone, which I am not sure I'm interested in (yet) but would be a reasonable approach. Given how they've handled the watch so far, I think that's more likely to happen than my thin watch request.

Or perhaps they'll do both. Fat version or tall version with a phone, smaller version without.

Re: Honey, he shrunk the watches

#63

Post by tinus_hn » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #62

tinus_hn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make it sound like there’s a weight loss program and you can just shuffle some consultants from thinning the iPhone to thinning the Apple Watch. Never mind of course that Apple doesn’t care what people in the typical Apple threads on HackerNews say. They care what sells.

The 3G was a watershed moment for the iPhone. The 3Gs was my first one (I love Apple, but they have their flaws. I always buy the 'even numbered' versions where they've done at least one hardware revision on any new design) and a lot of people hopped on around then or the next model. I feel like the watch is waiting for a similar notch-up in sales. The other way to go is to make it into a standalone phone, which I am…

The Apple Watch can actually already be used as a standalone device:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211768