Mar 23, 2025BF1W-0018No outcome yet
Gurman: Apple Watch SE 3 plastic no cheaper
Apple’s operations team is having difficulty making the plastic casing materially cheaper than aluminum.
Mark Gurman reported Apple's operations team is struggling to make the planned plastic Apple Watch SE 3 casing meaningfully cheaper to produce than the current aluminum design.
How to read this record
- What was reportedApple’s operations team is having difficulty making the plastic casing materially cheaper than aluminum.
- Who said it, and whenIt was reported on Mar 23, 2025 in 9to5Mac, and we could not tell who reported it first.
- What happened, and whenApple Watch SE 3 has not been announced yet, so nothing has happened that could settle this.
- The verdict, and whyNo outcome yetNothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.No answer yet, so there is nothing to explain.
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- Partly right
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- Wrong
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- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
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- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
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- Original source unclear
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple Watch SE 3