I don’t think Apple will skip version 9 of the Apple Watch and jump to version X

As noted by AppleInsider, a rumor from France’s iPhoneSoft site says that Apple is going to produce an “Apple Watch X” for 2024, as radical a change as the iPhone X was. The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) says this ain’t gonna happen.

iPhoneSoft says that Apple will skip Series 9 of the Apple Watch and go directly to version X as it did when the iPhone jumped from version 8 to version X. The rumor doesn’t offer any clues as to what major changes we might expect in an X factor.

I think that Apple’s big design for the smartwatch was the Ultra (pictured), which was introduced last year. I think we’ll see an Apple Watch Series 9 and an update of the Ultra with performance tweaks, but no major design changes. 

Dennis Sellers

Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.

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