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apple watch shipments declining since 2022

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

which should have been expected. after 10 years the market is saturated, and it's a mature product that has had no killer feature to upgrade early for.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had the Series 4 awhile back, and it died after a very shallow dip in the water. Took the opportunity to upgrade to the Ultra 1, and I see absolutely no reason to upgrade past it. It isn't fundamentally different than... well, the other Apple Watches, beyond having a button you can't set to do anything particularly useful and having an ever so slightly larger screen (which is the main reason I got it).

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So your apple watch broke doing something you should be able to do with it and you "upgrade" to the same watch? Wow.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Well, to be fair, my old Series 4 was a refurb, so the waterproofing likely wasn’t factory fresh.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I’ve had an Apple Watch 5 since it came out and I see no reason to upgrade. The only thing I really dislike is the battery life but to fix that you’d need to get a Garmin or similar. So can’t think of a reason I would upgrade.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have the first gen Apple Watch SE from half a decade ago and I haven’t been given a reason to upgrade to the SE 2, much less whatever flagship we’re up to now.