termsofuse

ApplePoor said:

It has been great to be able to move my stainless steel Milanese Loop watch band onto the successive generations since S3 days including my Ultra and now Ultra 2. That might be the last time to be able reuse my stainless steel band on a new iWatch starting in 2024.

The issue is that the Apple Watch series are really a fad or fashion statement with no long term life. That is the nature of electronics that all eventually quit and are definitely not user serviceable. The fix for a recently deceased iWatch is a complete replacement. The next year's model supposedly obsoletes last year's model because of some new electronic gimmickry. 

Now the conversation is that the next models will use a completely new band attachment technique obsoleting a fortune in Apple compatible bands. For a change, many might flip off Apple and continue with this years model until it quits. Apple has to support all the current iWatch models for quite a few years.

Meanwhile, the Rolex I purchased in 1966 still does its job of showing time in two different time zones and the date. It is self winding and needs no batteries. The stainless steel band can be replaced as needed from an immense selection of compatible bands that will work with most non-electronic watches with proprietary designs. It has beed serviced a few times in the 57 years I have owned it. I can pass it on to one of my kids.

The iWatch has almost forgotten  it was initially a time piece.