Future Apple Watches Might Ditch the Screen
Screenless fitness bands like the Garmin Cirqa and Fitbit Air are cheaper and less distracting alternatives to the Apple Watch, and their popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed. The company will release iterative updates in the form of a Series 12 and an Ultra 4, and possibly the first ceramic Apple Watch since 2016. After that, things could change more significantly.
- ▪Screenless fitness bands like the Garmin Cirqa and Fitbit Air are cheaper and less distracting alternatives to the Apple Watch, and their popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed.
- ▪The company will release iterative updates in the form of a Series 12 and an Ultra 4, and possibly the first ceramic Apple Watch since 2016.
- ▪After that, things could change more significantly.
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Screenless fitness bands like the Garmin Cirqa and Fitbit Air are cheaper and less distracting alternatives to the Apple Watch, and their popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed. Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on a major rethink of its wearable line that could mean the company offers a competing screenless wearable, or at the very least, an Apple Watch that looks very different from the square puck that sits on millions of wrists…
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