Apple has no plans for a smart ring
Apple patent application illustration depicts smart ring device
Despite the increasing popularity of smart rings with health features, Apple has no plans to enter this market, according to Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman. While Apple has considered the idea, there are currently no active developments for a smart ring product.
Back in February, Gurman said that Apple’s industrial team had suggested that Apple work on a smart ring, with the device possibly serving as a lower-cost alternative to the Apple Watch. Apple executives apparently weren’t interested, and active development didn’t happen.
Gurman’s report followed a February rumor from Korean site Electronic Times, which said that Apple was “speeding up development” of a smart ring that could be used for health tracking. The site claimed that Apple was weighing the idea of a smart ring as an expansion of its wearables lineup, but those rumors may have been spurred by Samsung’s Galaxy Ring.
Rather than launching a ring, Apple may instead lower the price of the Apple Watch. The next-generation Apple Watch SE that’s slated for 2025 is expected to include a plastic casing that could bring lower costs and more appeal to customers looking for something cheap and durable, either for themselves or for their children.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote in July:
Smart rings in their current incarnations, and for the foreseeable future, are just too limited to be interesting or, even, really useful.
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