Posted on 07/10/2015 10:07:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Don’t wear a watch and never will.
Then obviously, this product is not for you. . . Butt why do you keep telling us in every thread on the Apple Watch? Once was sufficient.
How about you quit reading this thread since you have nothing to contribute and seem here only to sling insults for no reason?
Umm.... Ok.
Any reason you feel compelled to tell us that?
Some of us have lives that interact with other people. We have appointments and arranged meetings to keep. It is the height of rudeness to make someone wait while you are late. While I don't have a need for an apple watch, I do need to wear a regular watch, and it was interesting to me that you refuse to wear one. If you have a good procedure for being on time for business and social engagements without having to wear a watch, I would be very interested in learning from you, as often I wish that I could do without mine.
I have a friend that is perpetually late, not that her life is hectic or fast-paced, she just is not concerned with the value of other people's time or with the fact that she is inconveniencing them. After she was an hour late to a lunch outing (kept calling, saying she was on the way, though less than a 10 minute drive to restaurant ), then 30 minutes late another time, Now I refuse to set anymore meetings with her. I just tell her to drop by anytime for a visit and if if I'm not home leave me a note and I'll catch you later. She doesn't wear a watch either.
I don't think not wearing a watch is the reason your friend is late. The fact that she kept calling to say she was on her way should tell you she was perfectly aware of what time it was in spite of the absence of a watch on her wrist. I'm not wearing a watch right now, yet from where I sit I can see two computer monitors, a wall clock, and a microwave oven all displaying the current time. The idea that you won't know and therefore must not care what time it is unless you're wearing a watch is ridiculous.
"Why so serious".
Martial music begins quietly, and as the heroes of the state knock on doors, it builds to a crescendo.
Years ago we watched this happen with hand- held calculators. I had one of the first, a Bomar. It was a heavy brick with tiny LED numbers. (I was public ally embarrassed at a meeting for having it..was told from a podium that some people can’t even add or subtract any more). Then the numbers got bigger and the cases smaller, and smaller, and smaller. Finally the process ended up with the push button calculator watch...which didn’t sell. Sometimes items have a “best size.” Apple watch went past the physical limit. History repeats.
I still miss my old Casio Databanks.
Nostalgia.
Exactly. Despite the current clumsy designs of google glasses and the like, the future is still in heads-up display. Nobody wants to squint into a tiny screen on their wrist. People want a near-holodeck experience that also functions as a cool looking pair of sunglasses. A watch or ring moved about in front of you might serve as the main device and also serve as a sort of virtual "mouse" or navigation tool with the glasses as the blue tooth monitor. Probably another 4 or 5 years away, but soon people will be walking around with cool sunglasses gesturing and talking at empty air. Like Hollywood libs.
Cause he's a dick?
Because pissing people off tends to piss people off.
I’m an Apple fanatic, love their products and use them frequently for work and play. However I’m going to purposely wait for the third generation to hit with apple watch. The watch that’s out now is a polished beta test, but once they slim it down, increase its battery life and build their 3rd party app library I’ll be on board.
Okeedokee.
Kinda agree. Now that the initial rush is over, I went to my local Apple store to see what the hoopla was all about, and got to play with an Apple Watch. You know, the Apple haters wouldn’t sound so ignorant, if they actually bothered to educate themselves as to what the watch “is” and what it “isn’t”.
The first generation is far more polished than a Beta. With the second Watch2.0 iOS currently in testing, the capabilities of the watch is poised to explode. One thing about buying an Apple product - no matter what product you opt for - what it does at the point of sale, will be eclipsed in a year or two with software advances. Your watch will do more next year, than it does today (and that’s quite a lot).
Meanwhile, if you buy a competitor, I hope you absolutely love what it does now; because odds are that is all it will ever do.
Jobs is dead. Apple is dead, in the sense that it is now mature, like Microsoft, and is at the beginning of the 15-30 year glide path to irrelevance. It’s hard to stay on top for long in electronics.
Considering the fact that one needs to own an iPhone to use this watch, the buyers it's "attracting" are already loyal Apple users.
However, I'm still rocking an iPad 2 although I think I will be upgrading soon and I imagine I will do the same with the watch. I don't need a new watch every year, so when I finally buy the Watch, I'm going to want that puppy to last a good 5 years. I'll wait on the Apple Watch for now, although a big part of me is tempted to buy the $399.99 Sport, but I think the ROI is better if I wait three years and have the watch last me longer.
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