How to Pretend Apple Watch Is a Failure No Matter What

Mac Observer ^ | Apr 13th, 2015 7:50 PM EDT | Bryan Chaffin

[amigatec]

I tend to stay a couple of steps from the cutting edge, it's normally cheaper that way.

I have upgraded my iPad a few times, but I'm happy with the one I have now.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I plan to wait until at least Apple Watch 2.0 comes out.

So in your view, Apple could not figure out how to make the product worth buying the first time around.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Again, I buy my Apple products one after the other, not at once.

The point is that you did not find this new product compelling enough to buy.

[Star Traveler]

That’s what you don’t seem to get and represents the fact that you want to impose “your thinking” onto others instead of hearing what others think and do for themselves.

I find a certain number of people around, in society, who do this sort of “thinking”. These people seem to operate under the idea that “how they think” is how everyone else thinks (or “should think”) ... and when someone presents a different kind of thinking than they have, they basically “can’t process it” — because all they are able to do is understand how they think themselves. And thus, to these people who are so wrapped up in “themselves” that they cannot comprehend anyone thinking or doing differently ... this “different thinking” represents some kind of “defect” or “error” to them — and they “label it” with all sorts of epithets. They cannot operate outside of just their own mindset.

You are one of those who cannot process how anyone can think any different then you — EXCEPT — that they have a problem in their thinking ... LOL ...

This is a perfect example of that, just what we’re talking about here. I say I have a schedule of devices that I’m getting, and that I rotate my devices out and I have two that are coming first ... and ... that I am getting the Apple Watch after that.

Now, to you ... you obviously CANNOT PROCESS in your own mind that people schedule thongs like this according to their own decisions ... and so you “impose” some kind of “determination” upon it, that the person has told you is not right. This shows a complete inability to understand that others can make decisions based on their own criteria ... and ... that’s perfectly fine and just as good as yours.

You would say that everyone that doesn’t think like you on products and what to get must be foolish, or an idiot or ignorant (all things which have been said over a period of time by the APPLE-HATER TROLLS).

If you and your types were to run a government, you would make sure that people could only get the products you approved, would be put in institutions for psychiatric care if they didn’t think like you, and would outlaw choices and behaviors that didn’t correspond to yours ... in other words, you would form a DICTATORSHIP ... LOL ...

THIS is the “thinking” that is represented here by your thinking.

The Apple users ... on the other hand ... are not concerned if others get other products. They’re very happy with the excellent products that they get from Apple and they’ll tell people about them, but they’ll not insist that others MUST think the way they do. What happens with Apple products is that people end up picking these products — freely — because they work so well for them, and then other people see how well they work, and they pick the products freely, too. THIS is the perfect example of how our capitalistic free market system is supposed to work. Apple has made this work VERY WELL for them, so much so, that they are WILDLY SUCCESSFUL in having others pick Apple products freely and be quite happy with them!

You need to “get with the program” for what our capitalistic free market system is all about and why it works so well ... :-) ...

[amigatec]

I didn't say that at all. As with any product they improve with each new release. I have upgraded my iPad 3 times, and my Mac twice. I just bought a Mid 2012 Macmini, i7. It was already 3 years old when I bought it, but brand new still in the box. Instead of spending $1000 on a Mac Thunderbolt Monitor, I instead spent $200 on a 32” Sony TV to use.

When I bought my first iPhone I bought the 5C over the 5S, I didn't see where I needed the 5S. This fall when the new Apple products come out I will decide which new products to buy. I'm not a power user by any standard, I just like my devises to work.

To me the watch isn't that big a deal to go right out and buy one.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

To me the watch isn't that big a deal to go right out and buy one.

Right. You got better things to do with your money.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

— EXCEPT — ... LOL ... CANNOT PROCESS... APPLE-HATER TROLLS).... DICTATORSHIP ... LOL ... WILDLY SUCCESSFUL ...

You sound exactly like Spongemaster. Did you attend the same brainwashing camp at Cupertino?

[amigatec]

I have an older iMac and Macbookpro I need to fix first.
FYI: I do wear a watch everyday, it would be a nice addition to not have to dig my phone out every time I get a call or a text.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I have an older iMac and Macbookpro I need to fix first.

Right. If you thought this new product was compelling enough, you would have bought it. But you didn't. I'm afraid you can't have it both ways.

[SamAdams76]

Did you attend the same brainwashing camp at Cupertino? I can't speak for Star Traveler but I would like to jump in here and state that I did attend this "brainwashing camp" at Cupertino and was treated very well.

Now I wouldn't go so far as to call it "brainwashing" but it was definitely an enlightening experience for me. I went through the 7-day program. The food was excellent and the facilities were extremely clean. In fact, our sleeping quarters were completely white. From the walls to the floors to the sheets on the bed, everything was completely pure white with a trim of "glow-in-the-dark" blue to show us where the doorways were. It felt like being on a spaceship.

My only disappointment was that they didn't give us a lot of swag to take home with us. All I got was a small bag containing a leatherette iPhone 6 case, some Apple logo stickers, and this T-shirt.

I wish I could speak about the seminars I attended but I'm afraid I'm sworn to secrecy. I am one of them now.

[amigatec]

If you REALLY need to know, I have some other things I need to work on first. Besides buying the watch. I plan to tear down my garage and rebuilt it this summer, I am also having some health issues to work out first. My wife is bedridden so she needs a LOT of care. And I may be looking at buying a newer model truck. My old one is a 1999 model.

The watch just isn't a priority right now.

[Star Traveler]

You really gotta get a handle on the fact that there exists “other choices” that people make — other than yours. It’s your OBSESSIVE/COMPULSIVE DISORDER which is making you think that everyone else has to agree with your choices ... LOL ... and that’s definitely a sign you need some psychiatric help, especially since you jump in on threads to tell all the Apple customers that they’re all wrong on their choices ... :-) ...

It might be a long process you have to go through to get stable again, but you’ll appreciate the psychiatrist helping you out with that.

[Star Traveler]

You said ... “So in your view, Apple could not figure out how to make the product worth buying the first time around.”

— — —

Now THIS is an example of your EXREMELY DEFECTIVE THINKING capabilities. You’ve got something severely wrong in your head, and I would definitely recommend psychiatric help so you can sort this out for yourself. You have LOST YOUR GRASP on REALITY!

Here’s how ...

What Apple does with EVERY ITERATION of a product ... is IMPROVE IT. In other words, the next update and/ or upgrade is ALWAYS GOING TO BE BETTER ... without question.

If a company is good and dedicated to always improving the customers’ experience, this is always going to be the case. Therefore we can say that the previous version is NEVER as good as the present version, if the company is doing their job right!

Now, you — with your DEFECTIVE THINKING — obviously think that this means that “something is wrong” with the previous version. With your defective reasoning ... the only way something would not be wrong with the previous version is if there was NO IMPROVEMENTS to the current version. In your TWISTED THINKING ... having no improvements now means the previous version was good ... LOL ...

It’s a good thing that the overwhelming majority of users realize that it’s a GOOD COMPANY that always makes the next version better and the next version after that better still ... and don’t have your twisted mentality that this shows that the company made a bad product, not worth buying ... because “they made it better” in the next version and every version after that! ... LOL ...

[Star Traveler]

Well, now ... you’re just making me jealous, with your cool t-shirt!

Cool beans!

[amigatec]

He must think we all camp out in front of the Apple Store just waiting for each new item.

As Yoda would “Strong is Stupid with this one.”

[SamAdams76]

You mean they didn't give you one during your "indoctrination?"

I feel so...special. I must be a chosen one for sure.

[Star Traveler]

You are definitely one of the chosen few! ... :-) ...