And this April, we learned that the very first Apple Watch model really was an iPod nano strapped to a wristband. Apple had been along for the flight all this time.
Prototype Apple Watch (Original) with matching Security Case and box. The Security Case was used to conceal the design before release durning transportation; and makes the Watch look similar to an iPod Nano. #appleinternal pic.twitter.com/2q0y8l6oso— Apple Demo (@AppleDemoYT) September 1, 2020
Is this an actual prototype Apple Watch in among those concealed “security cases” that business sometimes use when theyre evaluating devices in broad daytime? We cant say.
So if these images are legit and present, the jokes still alive and well inside Apple HQ– and were looking at a tribute, of sorts, to the initial.
In any case, this small iPod is perversely charming– and rather the in-joke if its real.
You see, the sixth-generation iPod nano motivated many people to try utilizing the tiny square as a watch, consisting of The Verges own editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. (Note: this was a years ago.) When the Apple Watch in fact came out, some designers turned the idea on its head with iPod-shaped shells for the Apple Watch, a few of which you could in fact buy.
