Apple’s rumored plastic Apple Watch SE has reportedly encountered serious obstacles

For some time, we’ve heard that Apple is making versions of the Apple Watch SE with plastic shells to provide cheaper, more kid-friendly options, but it seems that the vision that brings the vision to life is much more complex than expected. After Apple’s September event arrived last year, no new Apple Watch SE announced, Mark Gurman reported that the team had encountered some “cost and quality” challenges in plastic design, but it was still happening. Now, this week Power on The Plastic Apple Watch SE is “at serious danger,” newsletter Gurman said.

“The design team doesn’t like the look, and the operations team finds it hard to make casing cheaper than the current aluminum chassis,” Gurman said. More than two years since Apple released the second-generation Apple Watch SE, the model now feels “bland”, as Engadget’s Amy Skorheim wrote recently after revisiting the device. To refresh, but now it looks like the plastic design may not be in the card.