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The lack of 3D Touch is telling.

Looks like all those DC dinners and meetings paid off ;-)

eightzero said:

Ah...just announced all bands fit. I feared otherwise.

Yes, the watch is 2mm taller, but the same width. I wish they'd shown how current apps will look on the new display until developers can update them. I wonder if they will be scaled up, or kept in their original windows (light green and white below). In the case of the 40mm (dark green), they should easily be able to use the original 42mm display (light green) area without any scaling. Orange is both the new 44mm display area, as well as the 40mm bezel.

Vermelho said:

Absolutely no reason to change the bands and system they introduced. Even if the made the body significantly larger, they could make that edge curve work with a larger body.

That’s seriously wishful thinking.

AI_lias said:

nunzy said:

This will prevent anybody else from doing anything similar even though Apple would never do it. Smart!

As far as I know, Razer already did this, but it just didn't catch on. If Apple will do it (to me it seems inevitable evolution of smartphones), it will probably be more successful.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/9/16866206/razer-project-linda-phone-laptop-dock-touchpad-prototype-android-concept-ces-2018

I can’t see Apple ever doing this now. And I say this after having been the PowerBook Duos biggest fan. Apple has never gone back to the Duo model of computing despite the deafening demand by its customers, and many similarly filed patents for such hybrids. 

Apple is clearly moving to the cloud, and wireless connectivity. And there’s nothing elegant about that concept of slapping a $1000 iPhone into a laptop shell only to be used as a trackpad. And it will still be running iOS which is a touch based UI, so it turns the smaller iPhone into a larger iPad? A wireless interface would be better for that, or even plug in a wired connection. And how would such a laptop shell accomodate 4 different iPhone sizes ... at least elegantly?

No, Apple simply won’t go this direction.