[Swordmaker]

And now for something completely negative about the Apple Watch. . . Paul Thurrott has never found anything he's like about Apple or it's products, so I guess we shouldn't expect anything different about his take on the Apple Watch. . . but then he's self-admitted being paid by Microsoft for years. It's actually funny, it's so obvious and his conclusions and facts so.wrong Take it for who it comes from, Paul Thurrott FUD! — PING!

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[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

in short, don’t buy it.

[ctdonath2]

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.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Thanks for posting this.

[CopperTop]

Wayyyy back when I was a budding IT Tech at an Entre' (clue) store, an Apple came in for a floppy drive repair (clue 2). I had to go to the "special" Apple dealer to get the drive and I remember it being over $200 when IBM clone drives were ~$25 (IIRC). It looked like the same drive as an IBM-type but in a different framework.
That was the beginning of my dislike for all things Apple.
My fiance is an Appleusian disciple of the Mothership. And I encourage her desire to "be different", just like everybody else in her unflinching support of the anti-big-corporation-huge(est?)-corporation.
Love the Apple TV doo-hickey that went from buying the movie/TV show/whatever and having them stored locally to the we'll-let-you-watch-this-when-you-want-if-you-pay-us streaming device @ $14.95 a pop.
Thank you Mother. May I have another?

Donning my asbestos plate carrier (pitchforks-n-torches, ya know) suit for the inevitable Appleusian attack over daring do disparage Mother Apple. Heehee.. d;^)

[tacticalogic]

Sounds like if he was any more “at peace”, he’d be dead.

[RandallFlagg]

I was in the Apple store yesterday getting my 5S’s battery replaced, and I played around with their watch.

I was like, “Meh.”

I don’t wear watches, and would have no use for it.

[Leep]

I am holding out for a death laser app.

[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