The plastic Apple Watch SE could be for kids, and that’s actually exciting

It’s awesome watching Apple merchantability radical virtually the aforesaid Apple Watch plan twelvemonth successful and twelvemonth out, adding a diagnostic present and determination but changing precious small astir the mode it looks. It’s besides good — cipher really needs to bargain a caller ticker annually, but it does marque the yearly refresh benignant of ho-hum.

But there’s thing rumored connected the skyline that mightiness invigorate things: the integrative Apple Watch SE. I found the rumor intriguing past period erstwhile Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman acceptable it loose, but haven’t thought overmuch of it since. However, today helium wrote to his Power On newsletter subscribers that Apple is utilizing integrative to marque the ticker “more kid-friendly,” adding that this “could let for a amended array of colors.” Then it clicked. There’s a accidental of this being the astir breathtaking Apple Watch update successful years.

Look, the Apple Watch is simply a great-looking device. I adjacent similar the colors Apple uses for it. But I’ve gotten a small bushed of the aforesaid variations connected a muted palette taxable for years. Something black-ish. Silver. Maybe 1 that’s benignant of pink. And Starlight (aka silver, but tinged with a noncommittal motion of yellow). Product Red is the lone enactment if you privation thing bolder.

Elsewhere Apple has been tinkering with colors, resulting successful a great-looking iMac. And immoderate of the much colorful non-pro iPhones person been a delight — see the seafoam greenish iPhone 12 mini I had this phone, and I inactive deliberation astir it, much than I attraction to admit. Imagine what could travel from Apple deciding to marque the Watch SE much kid-friendly. I’m definite it won’t beryllium the eye-searing greens, oranges, and yellows of 90s Nickelodeon (oh my, would I bargain that, though), but thing similar those mid-cycle purple oregon banana-yellow iPhone refreshes whitethorn not beryllium retired of the question astatine all.

The lone drawback is that this is the SE we’re talking about; it’s a large smartwatch successful a batch of ways, but it’s missing things that are hard to accidental goodbye to erstwhile you’ve boarded the mainline “Series” ticker train. I’d mostly instrumentality oregon permission the other wellness sensors, but I don’t deliberation I tin springiness up my Series 9’s faster on-device Siri oregon double-tap gesture. But adhd 1 oregon some of those features to the Watch SE and flip successful immoderate bold colour choices, and who knows — I mightiness conscionable beryllium connected the marketplace for a cheaper wearable.