Posted on 04/28/2015 1:30:17 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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in short, don’t buy it.
AppleCrapple
Crux of his verbosity: “It’s not intuitive, because you really need to train yourself to use it. It’s not simple to buy, and for a wide variety of reasons. It’s not obviously better than anything else in the market.”
Has he tried one? I did, it’s intuitive.
Yes it’s as simple to buy as any mail order.
There’s nothing else like it on the market.
Thanks for posting this.
So did the writer just order one to give himself “credibility”? Bogus article. the surveys from the pre-order period showed that people who were not convinced that went to Apple stores for the try-on appointments always left with an order.
My wife has one. It is intuitive, powerful, and very well made. The naysayers will be like the naysayers before iPad or iPhone. When everyone around you has one, you eventually will consider it. Once you have gotten over your irrational hate for a corporate entity, if you can afford one, you will buy one.
My only hesitation in ordering an Apple Watch is over whether to wait for the next generation.
I probably won’t.
I’ll probably wait until someone has convincingly made a watch which communicates via cell phone, without a separate cell phone.
I probably will wait. Maybe a year or so. (which is how long I estimate before someone convincingly creates such a competitor)
Whether it’s from Apple, or a competitor. You might get a new customer Apple.
Might.
The Apple Watch has some forward looking tech built into it. For instance, it has some hardware that is not currently being used. That indicates that the refresh cycle may be longer than we have seen with iPhone or iPad - update by software only.
Donning my asbestos plate carrier (pitchforks-n-torches, ya know) suit for the inevitable Appleusian attack over daring do disparage Mother Apple. Heehee.. d;^)
You do know that the watch is made in Asia.
lol... my sympathies.
Hey wanting to bring jobs back to America doesn’t mean I don’t buy stuff.
Heck I’ve lived in Asia.
Don’t get me wrong.
That may disappoint some people. I am just saying we need to bring jobs back to America.
That is something we need to work on. As a nation.
Sounds like if he was any more “at peace”, he’d be dead.
By communist slave labour.
Apple is da debbil!
+1.
When evaluating such gizmos, I use a “buck a day” rule of thumb: if it’s something I’m actually going to use daily, and the expected usage period averages out to $1/day or less, then it’s a no-brainer “yes, get it”.
I’ve ordered the $400 gray sport version. I could easily see using one for two years before upgrading (comparison: I got the first iPad just 30 minutes after release, then waited until the iPad 4 to upgrade), so $1/day easily justifies $730 for a nice version (only reason I didn’t is my wife would kill me). Sure, you can wait for the second model to arrive to get a Watch...but then you’d miss out on having one _this_ year for just $1/day.
Apple is working on it. Mac Pro and other products are made domestically.
The problem isn’t the businesses, it’s the laws that require high costs that can’t compete.
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