It will happen. Same shit happened with phones.
Comment on Apple Watch Series 10 Rumours: Expect Larger Screens, Faster Chip, But Health Features In Trouble
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Jesus, if we’re chasing bigger screens on watches, we’re thinking about them all wrong.
IllNess@infosec.pub 5 months ago
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
The phone made sense up to a point—it has become more like a miniature book, and the changing use as reflected that.
The entire point of the watch is to free yourself from the screen of the phone for basic tasks. If the function of the watch hinges on the screen, then the phone is the better tool for that.
There was a time when Apple understood how the different parts of their ecosystem existed in their own lanes. Tim Cook has not seemed to grasp that one of their greatest strengths was that their devices weren’t designed to do absolutely everything, but rather a few targeted things very well.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re right, especially regarding the iPhone.
But the watch still has a pretty good bezel around the screen. Since you don’t have to hold it with your hand, it makes sense to make that bezel as thin as possible (or disappear entirely). The screen would get marginally bigger, but the watch itself would stay the same size.
At least, I hope that’s the case.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
That isn’t what they’re doing—it says in the article that the measurements are of case height, not screen size within the case.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well then I hope Apple Watch wearers all secretly covet the giant, round Google watch from ten years ago.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Honestly, they had me for the 1st gen, and then progressively convinced me that I don’t need one as they made it more of a phone.