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Is a Kid-Friendly Apple Watch SE 3 Coming Soon? Here’s What We Know!
Mar 15, 2025
Is the Apple Watch SE 3 about to become the perfect smartwatch for kids? Rumors from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggest that the next-generation Apple Watch SE might feature a plastic casing, which could open the door to a more colorful and affordable design. This update could make the Apple Watch SE 3 more appealing to younger users, especially with its built-in GPS and Find My features. If you're looking for a way to keep tabs on your child while offering them a fun and functional accessory, this might just be it! Make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates on Apple’s latest products! Timestamps: 0:00 – Introduction to the Kid-Friendly Apple Watch SE 3 0:02 – Why a Kids' Smartwatch Could Be a Hit 0:21 – Rumors of a Plastic Casing and Fun Colors 1:35 – Apple Watch SE 3: A Great Option for Kids? 4:36 – Personal Thoughts on the Apple Watch SE for Kids 5:58 – Swatch Collaboration Idea and Final Thoughts More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/
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so we move on to the kid-friendly Apple
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watch SE now this seems like a zany
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product but I actually think there is a
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real market for kids smart watches kids
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like watches my kids like watches and
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you get have fi turned on on it so you
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could always find your kid I mean there
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are some things they could work into
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this that would actually be pretty
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useful yeah and I so that's the rumor
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Apple watch se3 reportedly become in a
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plastic casing
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uh the good thing about that I mean
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aside from possibly making it uh cheaper
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is it it might be uh it might be able to
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make it a lot more colorful and maybe
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they might even actually make it some
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fun colors like they did with the uh you
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know 5c when they went with that thing
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oh man that's a throwback right
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there uh let's see uh what is this story
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talking about the current color options
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as you might may or may not know Apple
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watch SE comes in Midnight which is
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black Starlight which is goldish and
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silver you know typical typical color
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palette for Apple uh but this latest
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rumor from you won't believe it uh
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Bloomberg's Mark German says Next
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Generation version will have a plastic
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casing that quote could allow for a
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better array of
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colors he didn't offer any predictions
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about what those colors might be but I
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mean if you look at like uh well I mean
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who knows remember how remember Swatch
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remember those watches yeah they're
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still around aren't they well I mean are
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they big now I don't know well but I
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mean probably you know they're probably
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expensive fun colorful watches right
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um let's see German said expanding a
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number of color options could make the
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Apple watch SE more kid-friendly and uh
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as our story points out uh it's
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outstanding accessory for a kid uh their
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school like if your school bans an
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iPhone the kid uh or they lose their
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iPhone the Apple watch you can always be
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in touch with your kid especially if
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they got an A Cellular Connection uh
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like you're saying built-in GPS and fine
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my so uh you know you kind of keep tabs
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on a little
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rugrat uh I don't think there's any
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pricing information about this current
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one costs
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$249 would they make it a little cheaper
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by going plastic have to make it cheaper
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man they' have to cut features would
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they have to make it cheaper I think so
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how many people are buying their kid a
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$250 Smartwatch I don't think so yeah
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what's 250 now compared to what 250 was
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two years ago still a lot for a
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kid I mean in my opinion they'd have to
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make it like 150 or less it would have
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to be pretty cheap and yeah shatter
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proof or at least very very very rugged
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but then you could design a band called
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I'm I'm coining the term safe lock it's
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a band that you could put on your kid's
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wrist that can't be taken off wow so
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that you know where your kid is at all
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time there the only other option is
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securing an airpod to them somewhere or
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a um um air tag air tag thank you it's
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hard to make them swallow them they're
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very large you know there's other
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options but most of them are not going
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to be something that will stay in their
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bodies so you got to have a way to
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secure something that will enable find
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my wouldn't it have to be a breakaway
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though I mean what if they get too close
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to the
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thresher well if your kids live on a
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farm maybe that we have to think through
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that user scenario break away breakway
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like the the cat collars they should be
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wearing the Nike sport band if they're
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getting serious work
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done you know that's the one thing that
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was kind of weird about this like Apple
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watch I mean what's Apple watch his main
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thing I mean yeah using it is like a
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glorified air tag is one thing but uh
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Health stuff I mean maybe it would maybe
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it would help uh you know the childhood
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obesity epidemic hey how many steps you
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get today uh junior might be good who
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knows well check this out we got ninjab
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bricks in the chat says kids can't even
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use a lot of the features I'm a teen we
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got a teen here can you believe this
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we're cool with the teens Louis I don't
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know if you knew that I can't believe it
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he says I'm a teen
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and it won't let me use some health
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features like ECG I guess it will stunt
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my growth or
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something I heard if you turn on ECG you
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just knock the foot off your height
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that's it even one exposure to ECG so
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that is interesting I've never heard
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this been what happened to me the
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rationale the rationale be for that I
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don't know but you know if you're a
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minor then there are things that maybe
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they just aren't allowed to let you use
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without your parents permission or
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something you can't check your heart
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rate
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yeah well not heart rate but okay huh
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but still a cool product I think this is
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a great idea like my daughters have
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started getting into watches and um you
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know there their watches they have are
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just your regular run of the the mill
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watches and they can't do anything on
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them except tell time and I think it'd
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be really cool to have something that
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you could send them messages know their
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location they could they could use the
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walkie-talkie app remember that that
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would be that would be super cool
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finally someone I want a digital digital
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touch with right you know if they if
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they could drop the price just a smidgen
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although really is is plastic that much
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more cheaper than aluminum I don't think
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it's just the plastic that's going to be
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it like they're going to have to knock
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out a bunch of features to make this
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thing cheap I honestly don't think I
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don't know maybe using an older version
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of of um the watch and just putting it
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in a in a plastic case something cuz I
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$200 too much 250 too much 50 eus maybe
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in the threshold but a lot of people are
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not going to want to spend that much on
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a kid's watch I don't know man if they
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push it like hey yeah you know keep T
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tabs on your kid and uh find out how
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much exercise they're getting motivate
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them to uh be more healthy uh know
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they're under it I think I think 179 is
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maybe the lowest we could realistically
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expect Apple to
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go I and you know the thing is if they
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dropped it to like let's say $229 then
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it goes on sale for $1 179 and you know
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I mean that that's part of what happens
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with all these prices right I mean yeah
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you always find these deals I mean apple
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apple discontinues it like they're
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they're going to keep selling it at
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Walmart at Best Buy for even cheaper
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prices like you can probably still buy
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an original Apple watch SD from four
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years ago for like you know if you want
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a 129 Apple watch or something like that
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I'm making those numbers up but to be
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something like that happens
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often yeah they Swatch is still alive by
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the way if you aren't SW didn't mean to
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you know indicate they're not around but
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I don't think you were accusing them not
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being around I was just curious and uh
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Swatch a very cool trendy watch brand
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like in the 80s and 90s for you know
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very vibrant loud I have't cool designs
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for watches and I just went to their
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website dude they still got it man they
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got tons of cool designs on here I would
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wear literally any watch in this row
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maybe not that last one but or that one
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but they got a bunch of really cool
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Swatch designs the only thing is is like
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do you want to spend $130 like a Swatch
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back in the day was like what 20 bucks
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and of course now they're far more
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trendy oh they got 80s and 90s swatches
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look at this okay those are the ones we
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were just looking at dude those look
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cool I can't see
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nothing I guess I like that there on
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their homepage they have like some
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transparent ones translucent ones I'm
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all about transparent pretty wild and
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you know I mean we're always ragging on
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Apple for not having colors so like if
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they do this let's hope that they
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actually come up with some real eye
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popping colors not just like you know
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teal they should do a Swatch collab they
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would never do that because I don't
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think Apple does collabs light
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brown the zoom Edition
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