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Your Apple Watch Bands May Not Work With Next Year's Model (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast
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Individuals involved in developing new Apple Watch models told Gurman that the existing band system takes up a large amount of space that could be better utilized for bigger batteries or other internal components. As such, Apple is apparently considering a magnetic band attachment system, but it is currently unclear if this specific method will be present on the ‌‌Apple Watch X‌ or if the company will choose something else‌.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t see how a purely magnetic watch band attachment could work for a watch, but I guess we’ll see. Would definitely be a shame to loose band compatibility.