Last July, Mark Gurman de Bloomberg reported that Apple had started investigating the use of a plastic case on an Apple Watch is to make a watch that could compete with its cheapest competitors. In August, Gurman provided more details on the Plastic watch and how he could be marketed as a product “adapted to children”. In September, Gurman reported that the watch could be shipped this year, but that the product was “cost and quality challenges with plastic.”
Well, now, it's Mars, and Gurman's last is that the plastic Watch is “serious Jeopardy”. Sources say that the case is not up to business standards, and the cost to do the trick is not much cheaper than using aluminum.
Apple has offered plastic devices such as cheaper options in the past, including the original iBook and iPhone 5C. It was also believed that, like the iPhone 5C, a plastic watch could be offered in a range of bright colors, which would be a gap compared to the standard shades found in the current Apple Watch range.
However, Apple has moved away from plastic in its MacBook a long time ago and has not made a plastic iPhone from 5C. Unless we saw a kind of breakthrough, the future of the Apple Watch is in the plastic ended even before it begins. Find out more about the Apple Watch Series 10, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the Apple Watch is currently.
