Apple Watch coming to several new countries next week

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Kellen Beck
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Apple Watch will be heading to six countries next week, including Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Greece.

The expansion was first picked up by 9to5 Mac, which spotted the listings on the Apple websites for each country. All Apple Watch models -- including the Sport, Edition and regular designs -- will be available Feb. 11 in Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, while they will be available in Greece Feb. 12. There are no prices listed currently.

The addition of these countries will bring the total worldwide number up to 54, up from Apple’s original nine launch countries from April last year.

A post in the iOS Developer Library in September detailed how developers can change their layouts to support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, showing Apple’s interest in bringing its products to more markets. Apple also added Siri support for Arabic in iOS 9.2 in the fall.

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