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Apple Watch Review: The Smartwatch Finally Makes Sense. The future on your wrist, even with flaws.
Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/09/2015 | GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

Posted on 04/09/2015 4:26:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Apple Watch puts the iPhone in its proper place—your pocket.

I’ve got a utilitarian view of the year’s most-hyped piece of bling. Sapphire crystal and $10,000 gold alloy aren’t what make the Apple Watch the first smartwatch worth buying.

What’s valuable is your time. The Apple Watch is a computer built to spend it better. And if you can tolerate single-day battery life, half-baked apps and inevitable obsolescence, you can now wear the future on your wrist.

Smartphones gave us the wondrous ability to take the Internet anywhere. But they’re not always productive. In fact, they’ve become like cigarettes, leaving us itching for the latest affirmation from Instagram or Twitter. I found I spend 4.3 hours each day looking at my phone—good grief, even on vacation.

So the company that invented the iPhone has a solution: Buy another gadget! That irony didn’t escape me a week ago when I began wearing an Apple Watch, on loan before they become available on April 24. Do I really need another connected screen blinking, beeping and buzzing all day?

I’ve found the Apple Watch isn’t a replacement for the iPhone, but it’s the right screen for many important things. I only look at it in blips, for rarely more than five seconds. It shows me the weather with one finger swipe. It gets physical, gently tapping my wrist when something important needs my attention and lighting up when I lift my arm to look. It nudges when I’ve been sitting too long.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; applewatch; smartwatch
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To: RJS1950

I would say that having 93% of the smartphone market’s profits (compared to ALL other smartphone manufacturers, put together) ... is “getting over it” ... :-) ...


41 posted on 04/09/2015 7:13:05 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

If you’re talking about apps in the Apple App Store, what version they will work on is totally controlled by the programmer who makes the app and not by Apple.

That developer “CAN” very easily make their app continue to work for older iOS versions, but the developers THEMSELVES choose not to, for the most part. They choose not to because it’s not worth the effort for them to do that. In other words, there are not enough customers for them to do that, and put their OWN RESOURCES into it, for just a handful of customers, compared to the overall market they have.

We’re not talking about “Apple’s resources” here, we’re talking about the “DEVELOPERS’ RESOURCES” and many of them may do their developer work on a shoestring.

If you have a complaint about a developer not keeping an older running version of their program around, then write to that developer. Apple doesn’t control that aspect.


42 posted on 04/09/2015 7:23:46 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gay.


43 posted on 04/09/2015 7:55:56 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Star Traveler

In Q3 of 2014 apple held 11.9 percent of the global market with Samsung at 23.8 percent according to Forbes. As of July last year, Android devices held 61.9 percent of the U.S. market to Apple’s 32.5 percent.

They may be holding 93 percent of profits with their overpriced and overhyped devices when compared with the other devices that are more reasonably priced. High price is not an indicator of quality or performance which Apple has proved over and over.

Get over the Crapple hype. They distort like the democrats they are.

To paraphrase a more infamous liar: “If you like your IPhone, you can keep (buying) your IPhone”.


44 posted on 04/09/2015 8:26:21 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SeekAndFind
Apple supports Homo-Fascism. People should not support Apple.


45 posted on 04/09/2015 8:35:32 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: RJS1950

Apple holds a bigger market share over Samsung now, in the USA. And with our free market system in the USA, the customers give Apple those kinds of profits because it represents value to them. That’s how a company like Apple knows they’re “doing the right thing” by their customers ... those customers give Apple their money. “Money” is the “clue” for a business that they are doing the right thing ... :-) ...

Another less tangible way Apple knows they are doing right by their customers (as MONEY and PROFITS are primary) ... is by way of the customer satisfaction ratings. Apple has one of the HIGHEST customer satisfaction ratings in the industry.

It sounds like Apple is doing quite right by their customers ...


46 posted on 04/09/2015 8:36:09 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: DiogenesLamp

If anyone “takes a position” against buying a product from a company using that criteria, then they are going to have to do the same thing with Microsoft and their products and Android and all the products with that, too.

You could always go back to using the library, the USPS and/or “tin cans and string” for your information and communication... but I’m afraid you would run into problems there, too ... LOL ...


47 posted on 04/09/2015 8:40:14 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I’ve asked my iPhone and IMac and iPad if they are Gay, but they actually don’t say. I think they are AGNOSTIC when it comes to sex! ... LOL ...


48 posted on 04/09/2015 8:42:10 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
If anyone “takes a position” against buying a product from a company using that criteria, then they are going to have to do the same thing with Microsoft and their products and Android and all the products with that, too.

It is an unfortunate circumstance that we find ourselves in in which most of the tech infrastructure is firmly in the hands of "Gay" friendly liberal young people. This is partly systemic because of the location where much of this technology happens to have been developed. (California)

But let me ask you this. If Microsoft and Apple were both supporters of Nazi Germany, would you say we should still buy from them? Given that Nazi Germany was heavily Homosexual in it's leadership, that scenario is really not all that far from the truth. Add in Apple's near Fascistic relationship with State educational establishments and the Nazi-like similarities are even stronger.

I'm thinking i'm going to convert all my stuff to Linux. There is probably a lot of homosexual supporters in the Linux organizations too, but I can get the source code and compile my own software, which means *I* have control of it, and they don't.

49 posted on 04/09/2015 8:52:58 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

I would “make a law” (namely whatever law will be supported by the majority of the voting electorate) and then make it so that companies had to follow the law. It would be like the laws that have been in effect before, in regards to selling certain products to certain countries. Once you have “mandated by law” what is allowed and not allowed ... a customer can buy WHATEVER THEY WANT that meets their needs. That’s the way I do it.

I work with my legislators for laws and then, vote at the polls. Then I buy products for how they meet my own needs.


50 posted on 04/09/2015 9:03:45 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
I would “make a law” (namely whatever law will be supported by the majority of the voting electorate) and then make it so that companies had to follow the law. It would be like the laws that have been in effect before, in regards to selling certain products to certain countries. Once you have “mandated by law” what is allowed and not allowed ... a customer can buy WHATEVER THEY WANT that meets their needs. That’s the way I do it.

I am at a loss as to understand how this addresses the point; Several major corporations have now used their clout to tamper with the legislative process in favor of homosexuality, a condition which used to result in involuntary confinement in a mental institution in the 1950s, and execution when the country was founded.

Now you may have a very different understanding as to how much of a threat mainstreaming homosexuality poses to the future of our country, but I have no illusions as to where this is going. I predict that if these advances are allowed to stand, eventually we will come to a point where participation in Homosexuality will become mandatory. Refusing to do so will be regarded as a "hate crime" and will be punished by the full force of the law.

Why do I think this? Because that's what happened on two separate occasions in the Bible. (Sodom, homosexuals regarded it as normal to sexually molest male travelers, and the incident in the City of Benjamin where again, homosexuals regarded it as normal to be allowed to sexually molest a male traveler.)

I work with my legislators for laws and then, vote at the polls. Then I buy products for how they meet my own needs.

Years ago I read a book called "The Rhinemann Exchange." It made me realize immediately the folly of doing business with your enemies. They will only use your support to undermine you later, and we ought not do it.

We should create pressures for alternative suppliers to come forth. Just as Fox news is a market oriented creation based on the fact that all other sources of News are biased heavily to the left, just so would something be created in the Tech industry if people made a conscious effort to refuse to buy products from people who hate us and what we believe.

51 posted on 04/09/2015 9:34:05 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

It addresses the point that I’ll buy products on the basis of the products themselves, and then I’ll work with my legislators for laws.

If I’m outvoted on the laws, that means that there are more against me in society, than for me ... and in that case we will go down that pathway ... especially the pathway for judgement, as Jesus said, in that judgement would come as it did in Noah’s day. We’re getting that way now.

I expect that judgment to come, because God says it’s going to come. Even though I work for change for the better, my prediction as to how my efforts will work out, is that those efforts will come to nothing, no matter how I work on it.

Judgement will come, soon ... Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, will set up His kingdom here in this earth after that judgement, and put his one-world government in place and get rid of the U.S. Constitution and all other constitutions of the world. That’s what will happen. From what I can see, that’s within a decade or two, if not less time!


52 posted on 04/09/2015 10:08:28 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cook’s secret app is that it turns your wrist LIMP.


53 posted on 04/09/2015 10:28:00 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

Well, then you can enjoy your teletype there grandpa.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but functional obsolescence has always been part of technology, the only difference is the time window. This window will continue to get shorter no matter what brand you buy, because technological innovation is growing at an ever faster pace.

What has helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world, is partially due to the fact that they are not spending dollars are obsolete technologies, they have made it very clear that when something is no longer viable to them, they will move on.

Could you get ios 8 to run on your 4 year old iPod Touch? Sure, but it would be so slow that it would be unusable. At a base simplistic level processing power doubles on every 2 years so your iPod Touch is 1/4 as powerful as a new device.

Its the reality of the world... You think this is just an Apple issue? Not at all, go fire up a 2011 Droid smartphone and even if you can get the latest version of Android to run on it and tell me how much you like it.

I’ve been in tech for over 30 years, the idea that you are going to buy a dedicated computing device and expect more than a 5 year lifespan out of it are virtually done. Laptops/PC’s perhaps, but everything else? Nope.


54 posted on 04/09/2015 10:49:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Star Traveler
It addresses the point that I’ll buy products on the basis of the products themselves, and then I’ll work with my legislators for laws.

Everyone must solve this equation for themselves. The question is, will my support for this product benefit me more than it costs for my long term goal? If the answer is "Yes", then you should buy the product. If the answer is "no", you should not buy the product.

Each of us has to decide which path helps our cause and our beliefs more.

I expect that judgment to come, because God says it’s going to come. Even though I work for change for the better, my prediction as to how my efforts will work out, is that those efforts will come to nothing, no matter how I work on it.

I am coming more and more to believe this. I feel like an ordinary German aware of the coming Nazis but unable to do anything about it. The realization that I and my family will have to go through horrible events just fills me with dread for the future.

55 posted on 04/09/2015 11:00:56 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Star Traveler

I see. They are making the most profits of any of the smartphone makers out there with only about 12% of the market. Doesn’t sound like they’ve convinced much of the world to buy IPhones but that doesn’t matter because their fans are happy being gouged. Their relatively small dedicated customer base pays more than they probably should for a product so that Apple can have the largest profit share; now those are dedicated fans. I’ve dealt with apple products and the so-called apple geniuses at the stores and from what I have seen the only genius in the mix is their ability to convince so many people that their products are worth the exorbitantly inflated prices.


56 posted on 04/09/2015 11:02:15 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

Value is determined, in the free marketplace, by what customers pay for their product. I would say that the customers have spoken ... :-) ...


57 posted on 04/09/2015 11:30:57 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: RJS1950
I see you're a bit off on your Apple market share figures ... LOL ...


58 posted on 04/09/2015 11:37:01 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind

LG G Watch R running Android Wear 5.0.2


59 posted on 04/09/2015 11:51:37 AM PDT by Cooter (Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
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To: SeekAndFind

I'm wearing one of these.

60 posted on 04/09/2015 11:56:57 AM PDT by Cooter (Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
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