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I know this is old hat, but I'm just not interested until they make one with a round face. And I say this as a very dedicated Apple-using person (three current Macs in front of me, iPhone 6S in my pocket, internet served over a Time Capsule, an iPad floating around here somewhere...)

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Garmin Fenix 3 is round and a fantastic watch. Not going to appease the people looking for eye-candy but it is super functional. I use it for runs and biking, the GPS works well.

In some ways I find it more attractive than the Apple Watch

Pebble Round fits this area very nicely. People are always kinda shocked when they hear it's a smartwatch.

Yeah. I love my Pebble Time Round, I've worn it (almost) every day since I got it (last December). People who don't care about smart watches love it and come up to me and ask what kind of a watch it is.

There's a bunch. I'm partial to my Samsung Gear S2 Classic.

How do you propose they do that without forcing every single app to be redesigned to work on a round screen rather than rectangular?

On Android smartwatches, you're expected to develop for both square and round screens: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/ui/layouts....

It would certainly be additional work for developers, but there's precedent for it.

That's not the consumer's problem. Perhaps the parent is a total minority, I don't know, but a round face is more appealing to me as well. That said, I prefer 'real' watches, so I'm not buying one either way.

Pebble Time Round exists, and has the exact same problem. Such a huge design fork it's really like writing and supporting two different apps. One with a 90% market share (square screen) and one with 10% market share (round) and which requires so much more work and thought to utilize it effectively.

That doesn't matter to me. If they don't do this by the time I think I need a smartwatch, I'll just buy one from a company other than Apple.

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