Posted on 08/14/2015 7:16:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Do they have a dive computer app for it?
No, because Apple does not certify it for diving. They would certainly not approve an app for that purpose.
What I find interesting is that these are exactly the same arguments that were used when the Apple iPhone came out in June of 2007. . . from people who were using cheap dumb phones that made phone calls and messaged, and might take a photos. They were shocked that people would buy a phone that retailed for $695. "Nobody will buy an overpriced piece of junk phone when they can get X for a mere $100!" Then they said the same about the iPad. . . Look where we are today. . . The Apple Watch has sold more units in its first three months than the iPhone sold in its first year on the market and more than the iPad sold in its first 90 days in 2010, which was the best selling product of all time up until now.
Apple has sold 1.2 Billion iOS devices since 2007. Some 300 million of those will work with the Apple Watch.
I, after two months of daily use and extended experience, find the Apple Watch one of the most useful purchases I've made in some time. So have most of the people who have purchased one, rating their satisfaction with the product at 97%, an unheard of satisfaction rating for a new version 1.0 product.
But you, in your uninformed and inexperienced opinion, thinking the device is just a time-keeping watch, comparable to other time-keeping watches, still claim the Apple Watch is a "ridiculous," foolish purchase.
I haven’t priced an Apple watch, it’s true.
Surely it doesn’t cost $6,000, does it?
But if it does, buying one would be as ridiculous as buying any other watch that costs $6,000.
But like I said, it’s your money, man. Knock yourself out — it’s entirely up to you.
I own a $30 Casio watch, good to 100 meters that will last for about 10 years with reasonable battery replacement and a bit of good luck - My question would be why anybody would buy either a Swiss watch or an Apple Watch. meh. What a waste of money.
Battery went dead in my watch, put it in a drawer, haven’t worn a watch since. That was Jan 1972.
You are making the classic mistake of assuming your Casio and Swiss watches and the Apple Watch are the same product category. They are not. The first two merely keeps time. The Apple Watch is a wrist mounted computer that interfaces with your iPhone, facilitates payments, receives phone calls and messages, mail, and alerts, and can run other apps one of which also keeps time.
Your Casio tells times. The Swiss Watch tells time in various formats.
The starting price for the Apple Watch Sport 7000 Anodized Aluminum in 38mm is $349, the 42mm is $399. The next up model is the Apple Watch in stainless steel at $549 and $599, increasing to $999 and $1099 in the Space Black with matching metal link bracelet. If you want the Apple Watch Edition in solid 18 karat gold in yellow or rose gold, it starts at $10,000 and goes up in increments to $17,000, and there are reports of a $35,000 model with solid gold link bracelets, which has been seen on the wrists of some very wealthy individuals.
The Apple Watch works exactly the same whether you pay $349 or $35,000. . . except that the gold Apple Watch Edition has a special gold background watch face available.
Meh sommore. Which one is going to survive getting dropped in a 5 gallon bucket of paint when the wrist band breaks, and if the answer turned out to be *none* which one would you want to replace? And btw, the Casio WOULD survive that and much more. It's a wrist watch for Pete's sake.
NO, it's not a wrist watch, for Pete's sake. Your Casio is a wrist watch. . . the Apple Watch is NOT a wrist watch. Pay attention. It's a wrist mounted COMPUTER, it only tells time as an incidental but convenient app. That is what all you naysayers are missing.
My comments were addressed to the author, and I knew you didn’t write it. You do seem pretty braggy, though.
Sorry, I was ticked off at the previous posters. . .
Just don't expect everyone else to be so enthused at each and every of the latest promotions of Apple Inc., which this article is and was (from the stupid, irritatingly worded headline on) bleating denials that it was not, not withstanding.
The only doubt would be whether or not the promotion was driven in some manner directly by the Inc., itself -- which is something I never said.
Such a dilemma. A guy buys one of the things and is so utterly torn over whether he should keep it or not, or even use it instead of the other high-dollar possessions he could wear on the same wrist.
FreeRepublic needs threads like this one in particular, like it needs it's present programming to be de-programed back to old the occasional glitch malfunction that had John driving to San Jose whether he wanted to go or not.
But next time, address them as though you are writing about the article, not about the person whose name is on the post. . . it makes it clearer who you mean. OK? Several others on here seem to think the same thing.
After looking at the responses, I find it amazing that most everyone has no concept that the Apple watch’s timekeeping capabilities are among the LEAST of it’s features, while this is the ONLY capability of the more expensive watches.
Then you have the obligatory anti-Apple idiots; who equate Apple with sodomy.
Ignorance must be bliss, because a great many of these posters are about as ignorant as they come when it’s time to look at the Apple watch, and what it does. They have no idea that it tracks your pulse, elevation, GPS, movements, gait as you walk, it uses low power Bluetooth to communicate these factors to the higher capacity CPU in the phone (and higher powered battery) such that these factors can be tracked, plotted and utilized by Health based software. These people do not realize that if they travel, the watch can track the status of their flights, display the boarding pass on the face and make processing through the line effortless. They do not realize that you can use the watch to get an Uber ride from your airport to your hotel, or use the watch to make phone calls, play music, get news, check social status updates, as a shopping list for groceries, to navigate you both outside on the street (discreetly telling you when to go straight, turn left or right), or even help out around the house. It can start your car (depending upon your car), activate or deactivate your home security - and this is just the tip of the ice berg.
Just amazing what people comment about, yet have no clue as to what they are speaking about. Sure, you can do many of these things without the watch - but the watch is designed to make these things more convenient. And if you don’t want one - no one is forcing you to buy one.
Excellent analysis of the commentary I've seen posted on most Apple Watch threads. It is amazing all the comments from people who have never seen one much less worn or even handled one. They are convinced there's no difference between an Apple Watch and a traditional clock on the wrist. . . so they dive off the deep-end in their criticisms of something they have no clue about and deride anyone who does know what they are talking about, thinking they have to be deluded or foolish in some way.
Thanks for that reply.
Once, I had a nice little watch that only had little marks for the *hours*.....if I had to read the time, I had to count the marks with my finger, to figure out the *hour*....dumb watch. Dumber me. ;D
This Moldovo always blows my mind. My little mind.
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