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

[Larry Lucido]

[Star Traveler]

ALSO ... take a look at Apple WHACKING Samsung in its home market ... :-) ...

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Well, then you can enjoy your teletype there grandpa.

That's actually truer than you know. My cell phone is a nine year old flip model, my watch is a mechanical Breitling which I bought used in 1997 and which I'll probably be able to hand down to my son, and I own no "tablets" of any kind.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

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.

Of course there's no reason why that should be so, except for cynical planned obsolescence.

[Solson]

Now the Moto360. I started with the Samsung Neo2. Both were good but I really did not like the Tizen platform.

[Solson]

Yep and I've already posted a long rebuttal in a previous thread on this.

You can find it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3265964/posts?page=65#65

[SunkenCiv]

in the interest of disclosure, I use a 20 year old Mac every day, along with the stuff I *have* to use at work, but BTW, I have no interest in owning a so-called smart phone (possibly in the same way I used to have no interest in owning a cell phone), and the Apple Watch appears to me to be a solution in search of a problem, appealing to the Koolaid drinkers. The incoherent, inchoate animus directed to Apple -- allegedly for reasons that apply at least as strongly to all other brands -- remains both distasteful and a puzzle.

• The Apple Watch Launch is a Brand-damaging Botch Job
• Lots of Apple Watch Listings on eBay Are Attracting Zero Bids
• You'll be able to rent an Apple Watch -- but should you?

big glass of reality:

• The Apple Watch is Already Wiping the Floor with the Entire Smartwatch Market
• Apple sells nearly 1 million Apple Watches on first day: report
• Product Reviews are Broken (referring to Apple Watch reviews)
• The Apple Watch was 'largely sold out' in just 10 minutes
• The $20,000 gold Apple Watch Edition sold out in China in less than an hour
• Strong turnout for world's first glimpse at Apple Watch
• Live Thread on Apple Watch: Apple Watch Pre-sales sell out in under ten minutes
• I've been using a smartwatch for months and the Apple Watch makes mine look like garbage
• Apple exec Eddy Cue explains Apple Pay on the Apple Watch
• Apple Watch will replace your car keys, says Tim Cook
• Tim Cook Says Apple Watch Could Replace Your Car Keys, And That's Just The Start

Samsung circling the drain:

• Samsung Galaxy S6 Review: The iPhone 6 Has Met Its Match
• [and yet...] Apple beats Samsung to become world's No. 1 smartphone maker
• iOS grows to 73% enterprise share in Q4 2014, Android drops to 25%, and Windows Phone stays flat
• [iPhone 6 profitably sold at $249, and yet...] Apple Took 89% Of Q4 Smartphone Profits With Android OEMs In A Race To The Bottom

haters gonna hate:

• Apple Products are Inferior to Android.
• Smartphone Debate Ends With Stabbings [illegal immigration topic]

this was the most intriguing announcment in the recent big reveal from Apple (when I work, I work in health care):

• IBM Announces Deals With Apple, Johnson And Johnson, And Medtronic In Bid To Transform Health Care
• Apple announces ResearchKit for medical researchers, tapping into iPhone & HealthKit

and here's some good news for all you LINOs (Libertarians in Name Only) out there:

• [Vermont Socialist Bernie] Sanders blasts U.S Corporations for Dodging Taxes

and bravo!

• Forget the Apple Watch -- here's the Apple II Watch