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larrya said:

StrangeDays said:

mac_128 said:

sw5959 said:

dm3 said:

They're too big. Why does Apple suddenly have a fixation with size.
If they would have kept the same 38mm size, I'd be in line for a gen4. But I don't want a bigger watch. 

Pretty soon we'll have iPhone sized watches and iPad sized phones, and they'll make a iPad the size of a laptop.... oh wait.

Seriously? A 2mm difference is too big? 1/16 of an inch? 

What won't people complain about when it comes to Apple?

Now compare it to the 42mm Huawei watch ... it's now larger than the watches many were saying were too big when the Apple Watch first came out, and the Huawei still has more display area, and no bezels.

I question how useful the extra display area in a round display is. I'd argue it's less useful, and that that's the obvious reason why we don't have, you know, round monitors. 

What are you talking about?!?  In this example, the round 42mm watch displays everything that the rectangular 44mm square displays, PLUS it has the areas outside that rectangle. You just can’t imagine putting anything there, like, say, a complication or any number of Apple apps that use a round metaphor, like activity rings, volume, or progress toward running goal?  Is the round monitor meme really so important to you that you willfully ignore all the extra real estate?

Get ready for a lot of goal post shifting and straw man arguments. Gotta love false equivalencies, and people who confuse their opinion with objectivity based on vague observations and anecdotal generalities.

If 8 complications are good, why not 12!? ;-)

eightzero said:

Maybe the courier (and why if female, it is always a "girl?") 

It's the last of American sexism. If this had been a male courier the person probably would have said the "man", not the "boy". He might have said "guy" which is universal accepted, and has become mostly genre neutral -- "hey guys" to a mixed sex group, or even only of women. But "girl" persists as the primary way to describe a woman in casual conversation, and it implies images of Barbie dolls, Miss America, and at the extreme end, powerless, weak individuals who have not yet matured into adulthood. And that is the danger of applying it universally to all women of any age as is the common practice to this day. If you call a man a "boy" in most the US, it will likely be interpreted as an insult, as I suspect it would be in most languages. Somehow, mainly men, do not see any issue with this practice, and perpetuate it on a daily basis. 

jony0 said:

tbuzzz said:

Math isn’t my strong suit, but how is going from 42mm to 44mm a 30% increase?

It's the difference in display area  : 
44mm  977 sq mm
42mm  740 sq mm
Differ.   32.0%

https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/

Does that number take into account the rounded corners? I mean it’s not actually squared is it? Plus those sides are not straight parallel, they’re slightly bowed to follow the exact curve of the case. This is gonna require some advanced trig to calculate the actual area ... it’ll be interesting to see what the parameters are for developers are in terms of display edge boundaries ...

stevemebs said:

Does anyone know if old Apple Watch bands will still fit this new version?

Yes. But I’m stunned they do. Here are the new dimensions according to the marketing specs:

44: 44Hx38W
40: 40Hx34W

42: 42.5Hx36.4W
38: 38.6Hx33.3W

Despite being considerably wider, they’ve somehow managed to countour the ends so that they taper down to match the same profile as the old watch. It kind of gives the new watch a bloated look by comparison. Here’s a rough overlay I threw together:



Seeing it it this way, I’m also surprised how thick the bezels really are. While the display area is definitely a nice upgrade, it really isn’t that much bigger when the rounded corners are applied.

So ... vaporware? That's an unfortunate miss for Apple ...