The Apple Thread

I can’t wait to see your one! I am always too gutless to buy cheap bands as I assume my watch will fall off somewhere obscure. I need your bravery to inspire me!

I’ll definitely post pictures when it turns up, probably by next pride month :laughing:

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I believe that’s the classic Apple fragrance that I’m convinced Apple perfume all their boxes with at this point. They all seem to have a really significant scent that’s consistent across products that doesn’t exist when opening any other boxes from other companies.

Band looks just as lovely outside of the renderings too!

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The more real world pictures of it I see, the nicer it looks.

Mine says estimated delivery of 24/5 > 27/5 but it’s still in a warehouse in Dongguan City.

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I suppose it’ll take them a while to dispatch these as it’s new and probably lots of people want them. I’m not betting on my 10 day delivery being accurate

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Another thing of note about Apple devices, my AirPod Pros still smell like they came out of the box, months later

The smell on the band has 99% gone now. I asked my husband to confirm in case I had just got used to it :joy:

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I’m glad I ordered my pride band from two sellers. One has been sitting “packed for picking up” for a week now whilst the other is going around in circles in China, but at least it’s moving

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No idea what is happening with mine. I used the link and bought a medium and a large and will see what happens (not pride but blue and a grey/ black hybrid)

I really don’t know what all of this is:

I don’t either. But each subsequent update is exciting… satisfies the “something is happening” endorphins, which I have more of than I should……

Presumably China has a lot more regional transportation hubs even within same provinces, since it’s such a large country ? Especially with the kind of volume they must handle to make margins that low work

I have so many like this, but now apparently it’s in the UK.

“The shipment is being forwarded, please wait patiently”

That was yesterday at 14:14, so hopefully it should be here this week.

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Mine still hasn’t left China… so much for 10 day delivery

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I’ll be going near the Apple store on Friday, so I’m hoping that they arrive tomorrow so if it’s a terrible copy, I can buy a proper one.

On the back of this thread, I ordered 3 different Apple Watch straps from AliExpress on 22nd May. All 3 arrived yesterday in one package from a depot near Heathrow (although they obviously went around China separately). One was the knock-off pride strap. The lot cost me £4.75 (for all 3!). They’re not at all terrible. In fact the woven ones are nicely soft and stretchy. My bargain of 2021.

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Wow, that’s some speedy delivery! It looks great, too. Which seller did you order from? In case mine get lost (no update for a few days now)

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mL3ka0t

They quoted 75 - 90 days, so was gobsmacked when they rocked up yesterday.

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Thanks! PS how did you get the weather and other bits and bobs to show up as complications on the Pride watch face? I only have useless options like Breathe, Shazam and Stocks

It seems I have some issue with my watch as the complications disappeared from every new face I try to create

That happened to me once and I needed to unpair/re-pair to fix it.