There’s an old adage about most sports car crashes happening within minutes of leaving the automobile showroom for the first time, and apparently the same is true of clumsy (or unfortunate) Apple fans enjoying their first weekend with a brand new Apple Watch on their wrist.
Almost like a badge of honor, social media already shows multiple people who managed to break their Apple Watches before most of us even got our hands on one of the devices.
Maybe don’t get the glass one. Zero idea how this happened. No hard knocks or bangs. pic.twitter.com/Yw2nYoZNEd
— Chris Welch (@chriswelch) April 25, 2015
Unsurprisingly — given both their lighter-weight construction and the fact that there are more of them floating around — most of the damaged pics so far show the Apple Watch Sport. Unlike the higher-end Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition, the Sport features an ion-X glass front instead of a sapphire crystal display.
Without memory of ever bumping it (even gently), a scratch has shown up on my Apple Watch’s sapphire glass. Weird. pic.twitter.com/BMDtLAglnF — Oscar Tijerina (@TN9Design) April 27, 2015
Some other customers have also noted that the polished stainless steel Apple Watch proves to be a bit of a scratch magnet, although the marks can be eliminated by using the right precautions: namely Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish.
Don’t worry too much, though: This is no “bendgate” scandal in the making.
The sapphire display of the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition is as solid as you’d expect, but even the ion-X glass of the cheaper devices has been shown to be capable of withstanding keys, knives and steel wool without damaging the glass. It’s more waterproof than you’d expect, too.
Just not invincible!
Source: Mashable
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
16 responses to “Clumsy Apple Watch buyers parade their costly breakages”
The guy in the black’s mouth looks like a vagina.
Come on CoM, give this a “-gate” name pronto! You’re falling behind your reputation.
How about Douchegate?
This is gate-gate!
I call BS on the sapphire glass .. If you look at the pic on Twitter and zoom in, you can see it goes DEEPER at the top … That almost looks DELIBERATE … Like he used a diamond on it .. #JustSaying
Seriously. I love how nobody has a clue as to how it happened. Give me a break.
Or Photoshop…
Like the article states, the sport doesn’t have sapphire glass.
I was referring to the sapphire one from Twitter with the scratch
I wonder how much more it really costs for the sapphire glass? It should have been included in all models.
ha- what are you people buying watches from a computer company…lol
Paul Kubera in 2007:
ha-what are you people buying phones from a computer company… lol
He has a point. 2007 cell phones were made by electronics manufacturers like LG and Motorola. Apple, on the other hand, has never been in the market of making timepieces.
love the whole….”I don’t know how this happened”….”didn’t notice bumping into anything”….get real….
This reminds me of walking in the store a few weeks ago and seeing how many iPhone 6s where at the Genius Bar, smashed all to hell? Why can’t people take care of their stuff!?!?! I’ve had 8 iPhone models. I’ve never dropped one of them.
Scam Street looking to bring down Apple so they can flush out small retail investors, buy millions of shares on the cheap, and then send the stock soaring to new highs. Scam Street loves ripping off the little guy, and the media and misinformation are their best tools.