In a new interview, two Apple executives have been able to comment the wide variety and possibilities that the Apple Watch has in straps, its design and everything that is behind them.
Evans Hankey, Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple and Stan Ng, Vice President of Product Marketing, they commented with Hypebeast on the Apple Watch straps. If you are Apple Watch users, you will know the wide range of types, materials and colors that we have to personalize our device in an agile way, adapting it to each occasion, becoming one of the accessories on which the most is invested in a product of Manzana.
On the possibility of changing the dials, the style of your strap and its color, even the color and material of the Apple Watch itself, Hankey says that users have "an incredible number of possible combinations" to define their own style each time.
One of the maxims that characterizes the Apple Watch in this regard, is that the straps serve us from model to model, from one year to another, as long as we keep the size of our watch. For example, with the new Apple Watch Series 7, Apple increased the watch sizes to 41 and 45mm, but the bands on the 40 and 44mm models are compatible with their corresponding incrementals.
Hankey wanted to emphasize that Maintaining this "backward compatibility" between old bands and new models is one of the top priorities of the Apple Watch team. Something that, personally, reassures us a lot. Knowing that the money that we are going to invest in belts in any model is going to serve us, is undoubtedly an incentive to continue doing so.
From the first Apple Watch to the current Series 7, interchangeability has been the cornerstone of the product. From the style and color of the strap, the watch case material and watch face you have chosen and customized, Apple Watch offers an incredible number of potential combinations, numbering in the thousands. Every time we've refined the design of the Apple Watch, we've strived to maintain compatibility with previous models, even though the display has grown over the years.
For us, the strap is by no means a purely technological issue: each strap expresses our love for materials, craftsmanship and the manufacturing process.
Despite all that has been rumored and has been able to come out on patents, Apple Watch straps do not include any technology, but their design plays an important role according to interviewees to ensure that the functionality of the Apple Watch is not interrupted. Ng has said that the Apple Watch straps feature "innovations" to ensure that they are comfortable and do not spoil the Apple Watch experience.
It is clear that the Apple Watch straps are a round business for Apple and for which we are very attracted as users. We are certainly relieved to know that, it seems, we will be able to continue using our straps in future models of the Cupertino watch.
