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Apple Watch Series 3 Now Starts at $199

Apple today announced the Apple Watch Series 5, and confirmed that it would continue to sell the Apple Watch Series 3 starting at the lower price of $199.

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The Apple Watch Series 3 is available in both GPS and cellular models, both of which support the new watchOS 6. It's not entirely clear right now if that means Apple is discontinuing the Series 4 model, but it's likely.

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94 months ago
So Apple knows the Apple Watch series 5 is not a huge upgrade so they discontinue series 4 because that's the one everyone would buy because of the cheaper price.
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