Is this the Apple Watch Pro?

September 06, 2022

We called it back in June.

Most smartwatches bristle with buttons, but Apple Watch has only two -- until now.

New CAD files that leaked over the weekend appear to show a new button on the Apple Watch Pro on the left-hand side.

What's it for?

Our writer Graham Bower in June made the case for adding a new button just to launch the Workout app. He wrote:

"It would be a smart idea to add a Workout button to the bottom-left of the Explorer Edition. Pressing it would launch the Workout app. Another press would start the default workout. Further presses would pause or resume a workout."

Graham also suspects the unusual design of the new Apple Watch -- check out the gorgeous renders in the top story -- is made for a snap-on cover.

"This design looks to me like something is missing," he writes. "Like it’s actually designed to have a rubber shock-absorbent case, and that’s why the screen protrudes and the buttons bulge."

I think he's right on both counts.

But we'll see what Apple has planned at tomorrow's Far Out event. Who's excited?

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

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One more thing ...

"You can't look back and say, 'Well, gosh, I wish I hadn't got fired, I wish I was there, I wish this, I wish that' -- It doesn't matter. Let's go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday." -- Steve jobs, D5 conference, 2005

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