Effectively-known Apple provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Ku says we’re “unlikely” to see the 2024 Apple Watch lineup provide “important modern experiences.”
In a put up on Medium earlier right now, Kuo stated that he doesn’t count on the Apple Watch to get the much-rumored microLED show or blood glucose monitoring for the 2024 mannequin 12 months. He says each options are no less than two years away from being prepared for the general public.
Kuo additionally stated that he expects to see Apple Watch shipments drop to 36–38 million models in 2023, an roughly 15% year-over-year decline in shipments.
Nevertheless, Kuo did say that the Apple Watch’s integration with Apple’s upcoming Imaginative and prescient Professional headset might “create an unparalleled and modern well being administration expertise” that can end in a lift in shipments.
Kuo’s remarks fly within the face of earlier feedback from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman who stated we might count on to see a considerably overhauled Apple Watch within the type of the “Apple Watch X,” which might launch in both 2024 or 2025. Gurman says the “X” will mark the tenth anniversary of the Apple Watch, which debuted at a media occasion in September 2014, hitting retailer cabinets in April 2015.
Gurman additionally stated Apple is creating a thinner casing for the Apple Watch X, whereas additionally engaged on new methods to connect watch bands to the system’s casing. The strategy of attaching bands to the Watch has remained the identical because the system’s debut, that means bands bought for the unique Apple Watch will proceed to work properly with the present Apple Watch Sequence 9 and each mannequin in between.
Gurman’s sources inform him that Apple believes the prevailing band attachment system takes up a great quantity of area that may very well be used for extra inside elements or on the very least a bigger battery. Apple is reportedly engaged on a magnetic technique of attaching watch bands, however it’s unsure whether or not it will likely be prepared for prime time by the point the Apple Watch X is prepared for launch.
The Apple Watch anniversary mannequin may be the primary Apple Watch to boast blood strain monitoring.
Apple might additionally debut using microLED show know-how for the Apple Watch X, changing the system’s current OLED screens. The Apple Watch has sported OLED shows ever because the first mannequin was launched.
There have additionally been rumors that the 2025 Apple Watch Extremely will boast a microLED show. Tech analyst Jeff Pu earlier this month instructed buyers that the primary Apple with a microLED show will launch in late 2025.
In April, show trade analyst Ross Younger stated that an Apple Watch Extremely sporting a microLED show wouldn’t be out there till the second half of 2025 at greatest, not late 2024 as had been initially rumored.
In July, Market analysis agency Trendforce stated that manufacturing points had delayed Apple’s plans for an Apple Watch Extremely with a microLED show.
Apple has been exploring microLED show know-how resulting from its a number of benefits over OLED shows, which embody improved brightness and battery life, improved distinction ratio, a lot decrease danger of display screen burn-in, and an extended potential lifetime.
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