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Strong turnout for world's first glimpse at Apple Watch
reuters.com ^ | Apr 10, 2015 | Pauline Askin and Noel Randewich

Posted on 04/10/2015 1:23:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Consumers in Australia flocked to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) store in Sydney on Friday to get the world's first up-close look at the tech giant's smartwatch, which the company expects will be its next runaway hit.

The Apple Watch, CEO Tim Cook's first new major product, was available for pre-order online and to try out in stores - but not take home.

On April 24, consumers will be able to buy it online or by reservation at retail locations including high-end fashion boutiques in Paris, London and Tokyo, part of Apple's strategy of positioning the wearable computer as a must-have accessory.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: apple; applewatch
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To: Cementjungle
I'm talking smartphones too... and recent numbers. Go look at Gartner or someone reliable.

Oh, and it is ALL cellular phones that Samsung makes and sells in the US, not just smartphones.

141 posted on 04/10/2015 7:54:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: longtermmemmory
which only works 18hrs per day and then needs to be recharged...

Reviewers are reporting real world use results in a day and a half.

142 posted on 04/10/2015 7:56:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: tacticalogic
You peddle half-truths like a Liberal. The "fact" I challenged was the claim that there are hundreds of apps, waiting for you in the app store right now. Are there?

That was never claimed. Any half-truths are YOURS, as usual. You are making a straw man argument for YOU to shoot down.

Apple claimed there would be over a thousand when the Apple Watch is released. NOT that there were over a thousand, or hundreds in the App store now. YOU made that up so you could shoot it down. Frankly, I am surprised they are even there now. . . because there is no way to download them at all. I suspect those 50 or so may be there solely for the reviewer who have been given loaner Apple Watches to try.

143 posted on 04/10/2015 8:01:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
Obviously your life is meaningless

Did you get your gay apple iWatch yet? You're telling others to buy one, why don't you have one?

144 posted on 04/10/2015 8:35:47 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: dennisw
I will never fork over money to the Cupertino fudge packers.

But... but life isn't worth living without the latest gay apple iProduct. How will you cope? How will you manage not to fall into that bottomless gay apple-iProduct-deprivation related depression that so many succumb to yearly?

145 posted on 04/10/2015 8:47:59 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: dennisw

Yeah because as we all know there are no fudge packers in Redmond.


146 posted on 04/10/2015 8:51:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Swordmaker
Over 1,000 Apple Watch apps are already waiting for you
147 posted on 04/10/2015 9:09:45 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Swordmaker
Oh, and it is ALL cellular phones that Samsung makes and sells in the US, not just smartphones.

Nope, smartphones only.

148 posted on 04/10/2015 9:11:41 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle
Nope, smartphones only.

More proof you don't know what you are talking about. It took a COURT ORDER to get Samsung to reveal the 2012 percentages. . . and it turns out they pretty much reflect industry standards in the Android phone makers. Sorry, you are WRONG again. These numbers are NOT in dispute. The have been confirmed by other statistical agencies.

149 posted on 04/10/2015 9:32:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Did you get your gay apple iWatch yet? You're telling others to buy one, why don't you have one?

Neither of your snarky questions deserve an answer.

150 posted on 04/10/2015 9:33:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
Neither of your snarky questions deserve an answer.

So you don't have one. You didn't go out of your way to get a gay iWatch? It wasn't worth it?

151 posted on 04/10/2015 9:40:58 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: tacticalogic; Star Traveler; dayglored
Over 1,000 Apple Watch apps are already waiting for you

Nowhere in that post or in the article linked in that post do I see that they are currently ready for download in the App store. . . especially when they require a product that is not even available to be downloaded to. Apple generally does not make products available for non-released products, asshat. Why waste money?

You are building straw castles in the sky with your claims that it is there for you to assail with your anti-Apple hate brigade and your ballistae loaded with bile.

Apple will make them available when the Apple Watch ships. How hard is that for YOU to understand?

Apparently it is rocket science for you, who has yet to graduate from making mud pies.

You are deranged with your hate.

152 posted on 04/10/2015 9:46:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode; Star Traveler
So you don't have one. You didn't go out of your way to get a gay iWatch? It wasn't worth it?

Nobody has an "iWatch." Nobody every will ever have an "iWatch." There is no such product. As I stated, your snarky insult questions do not deserve answers. . . and will you not get one.

153 posted on 04/10/2015 9:50:13 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Did you get your gay apple iWatch yet? You're telling others to buy one, why don't you have one?

By the way, you seem to have a severe problem with reading comprehension. . . seeing as how you read things that just are not there.

154 posted on 04/10/2015 9:56:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
As I stated

Can you explain to apple fanboys here why you felt it was not worth the effort to go get a gay apple iWatch?

155 posted on 04/10/2015 11:13:38 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Anyone without 6 Apple products is likely a loser in life.

I think it's pretty clear that the apple iWatch sucks. Even the fanboys here did not think it was worth the effort to go try to get one.

156 posted on 04/10/2015 11:25:30 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Can you explain to apple fanboys here why you felt it was not worth the effort to go get a gay apple iWatch?

And I told you you do not deserve answers to impertinent questions. . . and there is no such product as a "gay Apple iWatch". Therefore I cannot answer your impertinent questions nor am I inclined to answer insulting rude questions from members of the Anti-Apple hate brigade whose purpose is only disruption. You are only demonstrating what a deranged fool you are by keeping up this charade of interest.

157 posted on 04/10/2015 11:41:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode; Star Traveler
I think it's pretty clear that the apple iWatch sucks. Even the fanboys here did not think it was worth the effort to go try to get one.

I also re-iterate that you have a severe reading comprehension problem. May I suggest that there are adult education programs that might address that defect in your reading abilities?

You also seem to be operating under the misapprehension there IS a product named "iWatch" and that these mythical products are currently available to be picked up. . . too bad for you.

You appear to be living in a fantasy world, perhaps a reality distortion field, shall we say? Or is it that you just suffer from a severe case of MAPS?

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projectedv Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

Yes, I do think that may be it. . . MAPS

158 posted on 04/10/2015 11:51:05 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Cementjungle
But... despite the obvious drawbacks to wasting hundreds on a rather useless gimmick, we can prove to the world that we're cool

Wearing it also suggests a certain warm homo-friendliness along with the homo-cool and homo-hip.

159 posted on 04/11/2015 12:06:19 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Wearing it also suggests a certain warm homo-friendliness along with the homo-cool and homo-hip.

You DO reside in a Reality Distortion Field. Your comprehension problems extend to everything you see. . . AND you suffer from MAPS. Do you always see homoerotic images in everything you look at? I suggest you see a psychiatrist for that affliction.

160 posted on 04/11/2015 12:16:55 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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