The Problem with Apple Watch in a Nutshell

Thurrott News and Analysis for Tech Enthusiasts ^ | April 27, 2015 | by Paul Thurrott

[Swordmaker]

I used to be Mr. Gadget: I was the first idiot who bought the first version, the perfect Guinea pig! I have since saved thousands of dollars not buying something until it has proved itself, and I usually buy one version behind! I end up buying things at a huge discount instead of a premium. Even the first I-Phone was absolutely destroyed by the next version. In terms of the Apple Watch, I think there’s even more of a gap as the first version of it is of dubious usefulness. Future versions may make the Apple Watch a must have. Just not yet.

I use the hell out of my Macs. . . My MacBook Air that I use while browsing Freerepublic was bought used. . . and I usually buy from the Apple Refurb store. Usually an instant 15% off. When I am done with them, they get handed down in the family. iPhones get sold or handed down. I plan on selling my Apple Watch if there is a reason to upgrade when version two comes out. I bought one for me, and one for my girlfriend. I can easily buy what I want from Apple directly, but I don't need to upgrade every time there's something new. I usually skip every other iPhone. . . and about every two upgrades on the iPad.

That is the pattern I see in most of my Apple using friends, giving the lie to the Apple haters on here who claim that Apple users just have to jump on every new iteration of an Apple product, doing the bidding of their "masters" in Cupertino. Frankly, I don't know of any that jump on every new model. For example, I had an iPhone 5, before I jumped to an iPhone 6. I never had an iPhone 5s. I just handed my 24" iMac down to my 37 year old younger daughter who is going to college and needed a good computer for her school work. It's seven years old. . . and still going strong. I've upgraded the HD in it to a 3GB drive a couple of years ago and it's running OS X.10.3. I have another one I use for my business that somewhat newer.

[tacticalogic]

Now you are extracting my words out of context and then impermissibly connecting them. A total non-sequitur. You ignore all the explanatory words in between. You TWIST words to mean what you want them to say. Therefore you are a cheater. I know your game. Not playing. YOU ARE a piece of reprehensible work, tacticalogic.

You took a few cherry picked examples and tried to make a generalization out of it, and got called on it.

[CopperTop]

Like I said, SHE'S the Appleusian. So I get from her how she wants this thing set up and used. I have zero interest in proprietary gear. When I wanna watch some of my stuff, I'll slap in a disk or open the file where I want and watch it without direction or overwatch from the Mothership. Hopefully, some really neato Apple-logo apparel came with all that over-priced crap. Hehehe.
Concerning the drive, it wasn't a "complaint", but a stated fact. For 800% over the cost of clone gear it needs to do something very special.
You're obviously an Apple fan boy. I ain't. To each his own. They are only superior to most others in marketing hype. At their base, they started as a proprietary, HW/SW controlled option for people not interested in learning how to actually operate their equipment. It definitely was an improvement concerning ease-of-use for most folks back in the DOS days. She's gone thru 3 Apple computers and at least 2 iphones over the time I'm still running an old Dell business class laptop with XP and my original "smart" phone. And none of it for reasons of malfunction. Just for some "really kewl" l'il tidbit Mother Apple decided to toss out to her minions... again. Hehehe.
Like many other "cults", the Appleusians marketing-induced claim to be the "chosen/superior ones" are familiar to the rest of us in the "great unwashed" (starting to sound familiar?). So, I "get it" just fine. Enjoy your kool-aid. d;^)

[CopperTop]

You assume a lot there, Sherlock. Hehehe. d;^)

And it's all somewhat irrelevant to the topic, wouldn't ya say?

[wardaddy]

Not meant to be offensive

Just a sign of the times

[winner3000]

Sounds like a good strategy. I also bought my MacBook Air refurbished from Apple.

The minute Steve Cook steps down or stops abusing his fiduciary position in Apple irresponsibly to push his favorite pet leftist causes, especially anti-Christianity, I’ll be more than happy to get back to what I was doing before, which is spread the good word about Apple. Regardless of my feelings about him though, I will not say lies about Apple products, which are top quality. I hear even the Apple Watch is top quality, but I still don’t “get it”, but who cares what I think about it. People are free to make their own decision about it.

I guess i miss Steve Jobs.

[CopperTop]

None taken. And agreed.
Ours is a business decision. Soon as that's clear, we're gettin married.
And BTW, already have plenty of experience at that in my 51 years. d;^)

[wardaddy]

Lol

U got me

[wardaddy]

I’m 57.5

Wifey just hit Five-O

She was my fiancée once back last century and then some

For all of three months

“We got married in a fever.........”

[CopperTop]

“We got married in a fever.........”

Been there, done that. Got five years out of it with #1. d;^)
Good luck to y'all.

[GeronL]

apparently does not work on people with wrist tats

http://www.chron.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Apple-Watches-aren-t-working-on-people-with-wrist-6230622.php

[Swordmaker]

Concerning the drive, it wasn't a "complaint", but a stated fact. For 800% over the cost of clone gear it needs to do something very special.

You couched it as a complaint. . . and it does do something "special". . . it is powered eject and that is something no PC floppy drive did. It is designed to assure no improperly closed files, protecting the users data on that floppy and THAT is pretty "special." Windows and DOS users were forever corrupting data on floppy drives by ejecting them at the wrong times with open files. Apple came up with a system that minimized that possibility. You may not see that as a benefit, but many people did and do. That functionality cost extra money.

Part of that extra cost is that at the time, Apple did not have the economy of scale allowed to manufacturers who could make millions of floppy carriers with the assurance they could sell everyone to multiple makers. Apple's product runs were in the hundreds of thousands to one million instead. That makes a BIG difference in the cost factor.

As for your trite claim of "cult". . . you are bigot. . . with the behavior of a bigot. Must be hard for your wife to married to a bigot about her choice of hardware.

[CopperTop]

It's been under yer skin and ya just couldn't let it die, could ya?
That and breaking out the "bigot" name-calling like a liberal progressive.

Point proven and I win... d;^)

[Swordmaker]

You are the one using the “cult” epithet to all Apple users. That makes you a bigoted loser.