(Some 700 Freepers appreciate such posts.)
Dude, stop speaking for me. I am on an Apple ping list as I like their products. However I can see the difference between a fan and a total pusher who obviously has a financial stake in doing the pushing. There is a big difference between loving the iphone which was an absolutely revolutionary product which met a totally unmet demand, and pushing the Apple Watch which does very little that other Apple products don’t do, and is therefore just pure marketing. I have yet to hear what’s so special about the Apple Watch, except that Apple has sold a lot of them. The message has got to be more than just “follow the sheep and buy one too!”
I agree that the Apple watch is a fanbois fashion accessory that is lame and useless. Matter of fact its only for the alpha fanbois. Your average fanbois is steering clear of it
Then you have Chinese and Asians with their herd like conformism. They buy it for status. They wear it and don’t know how to use it because the instruction manuals are only in English
Winner3000, not all members of the Apple list are there for either iPhones, or iPads, or iMacs, or iOS devices, or the other Apple products either. . . but some ARE there for each of them, now including Apple Watches. I don't discriminate by products. The Ping list covers them all. None of the articles are "pushing" any of them. As you can see, some of the members of the ping list are on this thread, discussing what is happening with the Apple Watch. others are not, many read and lurk. Others don't own iMacs or MacBooks but also read and lurk. . . or ignore both. This is about interest or non-interest.
I see quite a bit of value in the Apple Watch that will do things for me that have value as does my girlfriend. More will develop as time passes. A lot of people saw no value in the iPad that wasn't already being done on the iPhone or iPod. . . that turned out to be a completely wrong judgment.
This very thread is about what the Apple Watch can do without being connected to an iPhone. . . something many thought it could not do. Ergo, it is educational to both Apple iPhone users and non-Apple people as well.
By-the-way, if I, or ctdonath2, responded to that line of thinking, winner3000, there would be no Apple Ping list anymore on Freerepublic. Ctdonath2 was referring to the fact that there are 700 members of the Apple Ping list who do not look on Apple threads as advertising Apple. . . which is what the Apple hate brigade members have chosen to characterize EVERY Apple thread as being.
Whether you as an individual member of the ping list are interested or not in any particular thread is irrelevant to the overall fact that the other members of the list may be interested in that thread. i don't poll the members of the ping list before posting any article to find out if they are interested or not first. . . Nor do I go with majority opinion on such things. I trust the members to self-select the threads in which they are interested to read and participate on their own. They are adults and can choose on their own to ignore something in which they aren't interested.
It is these Apple Hate Brigade Freepers who would prefer to ban all Apple threads completely, that act like Liberal socialist activists, shouting down anything they don't like, by, in this instance, filing all Apple threads with unpleasant, irrelevant posts about the threads being advertising for Apple, or that frequent pro-Apple posters are paid shills for Apple, or repeatedly posting in every thread about how they wouldn't buy one, or repeatedly asking the same, already and repeatedly answered, questions. Frankly, winner3000, it gets quite tiresome from the same repeat offenders whose purpose is juvenile disruption and throwing brickbats.
Some years back, the popular line was “I have yet to hear what’s so special about the Apple iPhone, except that Apple has sold a lot of them.”