Apple Inc. has stopped selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US on its online store, just days before a ban related to a patent dispute takes effect.

Apple Stops Online Sales of Watches; Older Models Can’t Be Fixed::Apple Inc. has stopped selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US on its online store, just days before a ban related to a patent dispute takes effect.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Did you click the link?

    Apple classifies a product as technologically obsolete once more than seven years have passed since the company stopped distributing it for sale. The original Apple Watch was discontinued in September 2016 … so the first-generation models recently crossed that seven-year mark.

    These devices haven’t been sold in 7 years.

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      7 years is nothing for a watch (or a 10k watch for that matter), but lets gloss over this fact.