
Apple may be forced to end support for the $199 Apple Watch Series 3 due to hardware constraints, according to a tweet from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The entry-level smartwatch has been the company’s most affordable starting point to its smartwatch ecosystem for the last few years but has struggled to install and run watchOS as it's grown in size and features.
Kuo writes the Series 3 may finally reach the end of its life in Apple’s third-quarter this year because the smartwatch simply won’t have enough processing power to run future versions of watchOS.