LOL! Turn in your dude card.
Who the hell would be caught dead wearing something this gay looking?
Posted on 03/09/2015 11:26:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I didn’t get a chance to see the Apple Announcement, as I was at the doctor’s ... so I’ll catch it later.
I hear that the Apple Watch will take Apple to be over a TRILLION DOLLAR company!
Just like the phone was “more than a phone” ... the watch is “more than a watch” ... :-) ...
I totally agree
So nothing more than the two smartwatches I’ve previously purchased....at a MUCH lower price.
Obama’s mad at Apple since it won’t report back to Obama! ... LOL ...
OTOH: Apple has finally created the technology that the Dick Tracy cartoonists only dreamed of. And it’s available to anyone - not just policemen.
I still wear a Seiko. No I didn’t spring it forward, I never do. But that’s another topic. A watch like this might very well get the millennials into wearing a watch.
The sport version starting at 350 is comparable to a lot of watches these days that only tell time.
I just told my wife that I was saving my pennies and will be getting her an (extravagant for us) Apple Watch for her birthday. She’s all smiles.
Just remember the types of things people said about the iPhone ("just another smartphone, not as good as BlackBerry... where's the keyboard?") and iPad ("another tablet, can't see what's different from all these others that never took off").
Now, you may be right that this isn't any different than existing smartwatches, but Apple's track record shows that they're never the first into a market, but that they take it over with a product that exceeds expectations created by the existing market.
But can it make a decent martini?
It probably has good instructions to do so ... :-) ...
Sure enough, it’s an accessory for the iPhone, or basically, a peripheral for the iPhone.
Yep, it will sell a billion, and take Apple into the quadrillion market cap level.
With dozens of wrist ban options and the ability to change the default screen to just about anything you’d like, it won’t be any more “gay looking” than any other watch.
Don’t remind me that everything today has a clock in it. I have already reset the stove, microwave oven, digital camera, bedroom clock. I still have to toggle the one in the car, the television, the digital turner for the television, and possibly the one in my phone, and probably a few others.
Transistor radios were a good start. So were handheld walkie talkies.
Satellites (in the space race) also helped.
Apple “didn’t build that” alone (to quote Obama).
When Apple makes their first quadrillion, do you think they’ll be able to afford to pay the factory workers better or to bring the jobs back to the US?
LOL! I dont think so.
The cheap one is the sports model. To even get one that doesn’t look like a kids toy, it will costs you 500+ dollars and then you still have that gay-looking poka-dot display that looks like some sorts of game for children.
And that’s assuming there even is a point to have one of these! Smartwatches are about as useless as it gets!
I can get if it costs 100-220 dollars that it would be maybe justifiable as a blow-off buy. But this is highway robbery.
I think Apple is late to the game here and at a price point that is not insignificant and with a much, much higher degree of competition. The barriers to entry on wearables is much smaller than phones, tablets, or ipods and computers.
This will be an interesting market to watch. But, right now, for the first time on a new Apple product, I find myself very underwhelmed.
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