The best thing about my new Apple Watch is the super-stretchy band
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#63T0G)
The Braided Solo Loop is the stretchy watch band I've been waiting for. | Image: Apple My problem with the Apple Watch, and with practically all watches in general, is the band. Like many people, I spend most of my time sitting at a desk typing on a computer, and I've never been able to get used to the way my watch strap, or even just the small metal clasp, clacks around on my desk or on the palm rest of my laptop. It's scratchy, it's loud, and it's uncomfortable. Inevitably, I get into a watch-wearing habit only to take it off to work and then eventually just never put it back on again.
But I bought a Watch Series 8 this weekend with the stretchy Braided Solo Loop, and it changed things for this watch wearer. The Braided Solo Loop (I call it the BSL, as in, hang on bros, let me throw on the BSL before we hit those gnarly...