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How to Pretend Apple Watch Is a Failure No Matter What
Mac Observer ^ | Apr 13th, 2015 7:50 PM EDT | Bryan Chaffin

Posted on 04/17/2015 9:27:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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To: Swordmaker

Looks like Kevmo’s back touting the e-Cat....


21 posted on 04/17/2015 10:31:44 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: Swordmaker

hype by financials - no doubt they have shares in apple


22 posted on 04/17/2015 10:42:16 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: freebilly
Looks like Kevmo’s back touting the e-Cat....

You just can't stop the fanbouis (swordswallower), they come back like the living dead.


23 posted on 04/17/2015 10:43:42 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Scutter
Personally, I don’t see myself owning any smart watch until the battery life increases dramatically. I like my Citizen watch that charges the internal battery via a built-in solar panel.

I agree with you and I have Casio Pathfinder. I'm geeky enough to add a second watch if it has every day carry (EDC) features. Not seen it yet and just carry the phone with me. I wouldn't mind lightening the load if they add other communication features and battery life.
24 posted on 04/17/2015 10:47:51 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: max americana
"Here’s what I’m going to do if Apple does manage to sell 50 million watches by April 24, 2016, a year from the starting ship date: I’ll get a T-shirt made that says, 'I ♥ Tim Cook' on the front and 'You were right. I was wrong' on the back. Shouldn't it be "I'll turn homo for Tim Cook"?

How about a shirt that just says "Fire Cook?"
25 posted on 04/17/2015 10:49:19 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: 867V309
You just can't stop the fanbouis (swordswallower), they come back like the living dead.

Nor can you stop the FUD Packers.
26 posted on 04/17/2015 10:52:41 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Swordmaker
I carry a pocket watch. With analog hands. *HMPH*


27 posted on 04/17/2015 10:53:32 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

apple people are the ones you saw sitting in the audience in the ‘1984’ commercial. don’t think so? walk into an apple store and loudly proclaim the mac you’re looking at is slower then your pc.

it’s like world war z meets invasion of the body snatchers


28 posted on 04/17/2015 11:15:48 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: JohnBrowdie
Apple people are creepy. Just one small example; you charge your droid, but you “feed” your iPhone. just creepy.

Where did you hear such a creepy thing. I charge my iPhone and my iPad when they need power. I have never heard of anyone "feeding" an iPhone. Patently absurd. You believing that is what I find creepy.

29 posted on 04/17/2015 11:18:46 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: sten
Viking2002 has summoned Swordswallower. Why, I don't know. It's like saying "Candyman" three times.

My advice: LEAVE THIS THREAD NOW.

If you don't, you'll feel dirty tomorrow.


30 posted on 04/17/2015 11:25:38 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
But in that case... someone else will produce a stand-alone phone in a watch, and they will rule that market.

There already is one. . . and it isn't ruling the market. It hardly made a splash.

31 posted on 04/17/2015 11:28:51 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Interesting. The competition has already started.

Thanks.


32 posted on 04/17/2015 11:35:05 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-tradebalance/c5700.html)
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To: sten
walk into an apple store and loudly proclaim the mac you’re looking at is slower then your pc.

How often have you done that? I know that I would be speed dialing for a PA302.

You need professional help. You are not going to get it on the Apple threads.
33 posted on 04/17/2015 11:39:12 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: 867V309; dayglored
Well, a "watch" which Apple admits they don't know how to mass produce, needs an iphone in your pocket to work, may or may not be available sometime later this year, and is manufactured by a company promoting the queer agenda.

How many do you think they have to produce for you to consider "mass producing," 86? Since Apple will be delivering more than 2.5 million on April 24, and no other maker of smart watches has ever produced anything more than a couple hundred thousand and sold them over the space of a year, that sure looks like mass production to any person not suffering from Apple Derangement Syndrome. Apple had stated they had already manufactured two million in the middle of March . . . and you really don't think they stopped making them then do you?

Apple had sold out their stock on hand for April 24th delivery in the first TEN MINUTES of going on pre-sale on April 10 at midnight Pacific Standard time. People kept ordering them and ordering them for DAYS afterward and are still ordering them today. No one except Apple knows exactly how many pre-orders have been made.

You keep pushing your claim that Apple is promoting the "queer agenda" when it is only the CEO who is promoting the queer agenda. . . Apple the company has merely joined Microsoft, HP, Google, FaceBook, the NBA, NASCAR, Walmart and now 60 other companies and organizations in giving lip service to the Gay Legislative agenda. . . and all of them except NASCAR have been doing it far longer than Apple has. . . and even put corporate funds and effort toward advocating that position. Microsoft has been backing it for ten years and Google even longer. . . yet YOU will ignore every one of their long term egregious conduct so that you can bash Apple for its much shorter term egregious conduct. . . because the news media focused on Apple. It gets more clicks and media attention. . . and its CEO is homosexual. It makes an easy target. . . and it makes you a hypocrite for being so selective in your bile.

Why aren't you also on the Microsoft threads claiming that Microsoft is promoting the queer agenda? After all, they've been doing it for ten years longer than Apple. . . (Sorry dayglored. . . )

34 posted on 04/17/2015 11:53:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Interesting. The competition has already started.

It came out six months ago. . .

35 posted on 04/17/2015 11:57:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: 867V309; sten; dayglored
If you don't, you'll feel dirty tomorrow.

Yes, you're right. What with you throwing your feces around slurring me and other Apple users merely because we choose to use a computer and phone you hate. You need help.

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projectedv Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

This diagnosis applies to you and a couple of other deranged posters on this thread.

36 posted on 04/18/2015 12:03:33 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
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37 posted on 04/18/2015 12:14:28 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Swordmaker

I agree Apple has a (very) formidable marketing operation.

Very formidable.

But I’m just saying. They need to make the Apple watch a stand-alone phone as well.

They already have competition.

Not that organized, not that big, but it has started. I say that as a potential customer.

Make the watch independent of the rest of Apple’s products. Compatible, sure, but allow customers to become Apple members with only a watch.

Just a watch.

I am not buying yet. But I very likely will make this move in a year or so.

Apple hasn’t (yet) won me over. I want to be an Apple user, with just a watch.

The competition hasn’t won me over yet either. It’s still pretty small, and still pretty preliminary, but it’s going to grow very quickly now.

Just saying. Win me over Apple.


38 posted on 04/18/2015 12:14:33 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-tradebalance/c5700.html)
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To: Swordmaker
There already is one. . .

US $44.00 / piece
Minimum order 10 pieces

From Shenzhen JOYSAVE Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2013.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2014-Newest-Smart-Bluetooth-Watch-GV08_60136483283.html

39 posted on 04/18/2015 12:20:59 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Viking2002

“I carry a pocket watch. With analog hands.”

I’m with you on the analog hands. Tried the pocket watch thing. It isn’t me.

Which is why - the ONLY reason why - I can imagine any utility to the Apple Watch thing.

Who is old enough to be able to afford it, and still has eyesight acute enough to be able to read it??


40 posted on 04/18/2015 12:24:43 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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