Well, the Milanese is supposed to be a fashion band not a sports band so they didn’t design it to hold during extreme activities. I’m sure Apple has resources to design a magnetic band that can hold firm during sports activities.
That said I think a lot of people including myself use our ultras just as regular watches and aren’t skydiving or 40m under water with them so they could be looking at moderate activity closures too.
When the Milanese loop magnet fell away, the watch was still dangling from my wrist. I’m sure other magnetic bands are holding up better, but I don’t think it’s acceptable to even have a 0.5% chance of your watch just falling away from your wrist, because the band detached, wrecking your 500$ watch. I also don’t think it’s going to be a "just don’t shake it too hard“-kind of solution; besides, they’ll want to have the same attachment mechanism across all watches to keep the bands compatible (for the same sizes).
Well, the Milanese is supposed to be a fashion band not a sports band so they didn’t design it to hold during extreme activities. I’m sure Apple has resources to design a magnetic band that can hold firm during sports activities.
That said I think a lot of people including myself use our ultras just as regular watches and aren’t skydiving or 40m under water with them so they could be looking at moderate activity closures too.
When the Milanese loop magnet fell away, the watch was still dangling from my wrist. I’m sure other magnetic bands are holding up better, but I don’t think it’s acceptable to even have a 0.5% chance of your watch just falling away from your wrist, because the band detached, wrecking your 500$ watch. I also don’t think it’s going to be a "just don’t shake it too hard“-kind of solution; besides, they’ll want to have the same attachment mechanism across all watches to keep the bands compatible (for the same sizes).