[TomServo]

I’ll leave the timekeeping to the timekeepers.

I’ll leave the health monitoring to Polar.

I’ll leave the toys to apple.

[ifinnegan]

It’s Donn Tatum and Card Walker time at Apple.

[Theo]

I’m a big fan of Apple stuff.

Nothing announced yesterday excited me in the least.

The title — “It’s Time Someone Said It” — is just dumb. Lots of people are independent thinkers, and can see that the new iPhones and iWatch are kinda boring.

Me? I’m waiting for the new AppleTV to come out, hopefully with a Blu-Ray player built in ...

[HamiltonJay]

For one thing, Apple has been worryingly silent on the subject of battery life, but there’s no indication that this thing will last even 24 hours. A watch’s battery should last for months; even watches which don’t have batteries will last for a couple of days, if you have to wind them manually, or indefinitely, if they’re automatic and all you have to do is wear them. Watches might be complicated on the inside, but they’re simple on the outside, and they should never come with a charging cable. (To make matters worse, even though the Apple Watch only works if you have an iPhone, the iPhone charging cable will not charge the Apple Watch; you need a different charging cable entirely.)

This is a stupid argument, I am not saying the apple watch is the be all end all, but the same argument was made about the iPhone... at the time most cell phones could be charged, and unless used heavily would last for a week or more.... DIdn't stop anyone from buying their smart phone that was lucky to last a day under normal use.

I am far more interested in the NFC agreements they made in the retail space, and thing that is a huge market disruption that will make Apple a ton of money. The watch may or may not turn into something big, but the battery life issue has already been shown to be a non started. IF the product delivers something people want, they will have no issues charging it more frequently. Trying to compare this thing to a classic watch is idiotic.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, it certainly is not a Mido Multifort Chronograph.

[olepap]

Stuff this BS. I am never wearing one of their little Nazi watches. I got enough people complaining about me already, I dont need a watch scolding me. I will grind it to dust under my hobnailed boots!

[lacrew]

I have a hard time understanding what the watch does, that people would ‘want’. I see it does some health monitoring...but so do a lot of other gadgets. I assume it displays the time? And they showed some way to know your friends are nearby, and send a twitter message...but in reality isn’t your I-Phone really doing that, and the watch is just a peripheral device (and a small one hat you can only type on with one hand) for the actual phone?

The one handed thing is my biggest question. If you’ve got a phone in your pocket, are you really going to tap out a one handed message on the watch? Most would just pull out the phone.

[Boogieman]

Not to mention everyone stopped wearing watches because we have clocks on our phones.

[RansomOttawa]

To make matters worse, even though the Apple Watch only works if you have an iPhone,

Feh. Well, to heck with that.

A few years ago when Apple came out with the 6th-generation iPod Nano (the little square one with the touchscreen), there was a modest aftermarket in watch straps. From what I've heard, it actually made a pretty decent wristwatch, without having to be tied to a phone. Should have bought one when I had the chance.

[RIghtwardHo]

I don’t even know anyone who wears a watch anymore. Heaven knows I and my wife don’t. If I want to know the time, I look at my phone or any other number of electronic devices within easy view.

[Defiant]

I wanted to want an Apple Watch, I truly did. I was very disappointed in this watch. Everything it does can be done with the phone you have to carry with it, except perhaps for some of the health monitoring that it does. Those things can be done a lot more cheaply with some of the wrist bands already out there.

Because of smartphones, I haven't worn a watch in years. I didn't see a reason to wear one in this iteration. Yet. But I am interested to see how the device evolves. There may turn out to be reasons to wear one that are not apparent just yet. When iPad first came out, there was a lot of discussion about whether people would use or need them, what with computers and netbooks (remember those) and smartphones. Yet the category did take off, and now they have had a big impact on computing. The distinction, I think, is that you didn't have to carry around your laptop to use your iPad. Make the Watch independent of the iPhone, and I think it might be more useful. Will wait and see on this one.

[Hot Tabasco]

One could make the argument, why buy version 1 when you can wait for version 2?

Better yet, why buy version 2 when you can wait for version 3?

Even better, why buy version 3 when you can wait for version 4?

LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

I suggest anyone who doesn’t think this is a great product, please go watch the full presentation covering everything from yesterday’s announcements.

Used to be I was a great gadget guy. Over the years, there became less and less to get excited about. My old drive to buy watches died over over twenty years ago, perhaps 25.

Folks, if you give this watch of Apple a good look see, I think you’ll have to admit it’s very cutting edge.

You’re in a complex shopping mall. You need to navigate to another store. The Apple phone will guide you to it, without you even having to look at it. It has notifier levers on the bottom of the watch that will notify you when to turn right or left as you walk to your destination.

This watch does so many trick things, I can’t even remember them all. If you’re anti-Apple, that’s okay. There are other brands out there. Go for one of them. I don’t mind. This watch is not ho hum. If you have a gadget guy bone in your body, you’ll recognize this phone as the most impressive watch since the HP-01.

If you don’t know what the HP-01 was, don’t bother to write back.

This watch has a number of new cutting edge technologies in it. While some are merely tweaked, the ingenuity of the Apple team is amazing.

The iPhones announced yesterday, the new Apple Watch, folks if they’re not your cup of tea, that’s okay. Please don’t make a fool out of yourself as if they aren’t some of the most amazing techno gear things ever. They are.

[ctdonath2]

I heard the same arguments when the iPad came out.
I bought one 30 minutes after release.

I hear the same arguments now about the Apple Watch.
I’ll be among the first in line for that too.

Sure it’s amorphous. Yes it’s not cheap. It’s not an astounding innovation out of a void. But like the mobile tablet market, it got something right - something which, even if vague, hundreds of millions of people will pay a lot of money for in short order. And no, “fanboi” and “morons” and “stupid” and etc do not constitute an insightful retort.

[SamAdams76]

If you go through the FR archives, you will see how many of us chortled over the introduction of Apple products such as iPod; iTunes; iPhones; iPad; and now the iWatch.

Hundreds of billions of dollars later...