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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: Swordmaker
I suggest you see a psychiatrist for that affliction.

Do you think Tim Cook should see a psychiatrist?

161 posted on 04/11/2015 12:30:46 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode; Star Traveler
Do you think Tim Cook should see a psychiatrist?

What has that got to do with you making an appointment for your severe problems? He's not the one displaying his projection problems on this thread, you are. Get some help.

162 posted on 04/11/2015 12:34:54 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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To: Swordmaker
He's not the one

So you're ok with Tim Cook's faggotry. You don't think he needs help?

163 posted on 04/11/2015 12:43:51 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode; Star Traveler; Loud Mime; dayglored
So you're ok with Tim Cook's faggotry. You don't think he needs help?

AGAIN, your snarky, rude, and presumptive questions on these threads WILL NOT GET ANSWERS.

DO NOT PUT STRAW MAN WORDS IN MY MOUTH, EVER!! YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT PRIVILEGE OR RIGHT TO ASSUME MY THOUGHTS OR MY OPINIONS! THIS IS NOT A CROSS EXAMINATION, ASSHAT, AND YOU ARE NOT A PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, SO SHUT UP!!

Your straw man approach to everything is noted and will be ignored. Your entire purpose is to disrupt these threads . . . You are a rude thread TROLL and you are trying your damnedest to ignite a flame war in contravention of Jim Robinson's explicit rules against them. You come on these threads and repeatedly impugned and insulted over 700 of your fellow Freepers merely because they have chosen a different computer, phone, or WATCH than you might choose to buy. That behavior is assinine and stupid. . . and makes you pathetic.

Frankly, you act exactly like the radical socialist college students who shout down every conservatives who try to speak on college campuses. . . You cannot allow another platform than your chosen one. You are a SICK bigot.

164 posted on 04/11/2015 12:59:36 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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To: Swordmaker
You are a SICK bigot.

Because I'm anti-gay?

165 posted on 04/11/2015 1:06:22 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Swordmaker

Geez man you set my gaydar off from a different website even....

Histronic much?


166 posted on 04/11/2015 1:06:35 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Dallas59

I am am an Apple fan but i am not buying this watch. The reason I considered the watch is because i have come within inches of buying a “fitness band” in the last few years.

One I had chosen but waited a little too long and the company recalled it.

Ultimately, I think Apple will end up being the product i buy because they make quality products but i am concerned about this being the first iteration of the watch ... I think I’ll wait a year or two.


167 posted on 04/11/2015 1:07:43 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Because I'm anti-gay?

No, because you are accusing hundreds of millions of customers of a COMPANY of being gay for buying their products, asshat. . . and being a rude, snide, crude, and disruptive troll about it. . . to people who are NOT homosexual who you accuse of being homosexual for merely buying a product. That's why. You carry it to an absurd extreme. People who do that are projecting their own fear of their own sexual problems. Don't do it to your fellow Freepers.

168 posted on 04/11/2015 1:10:06 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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To: Swordmaker
merely because they have chosen a different computer, phone, or WATCH than you might choose to buy.

The way you phrase it makes it sound like a sexual orientation. I wonder if it is true that some people are born wanting an iWatch.

169 posted on 04/11/2015 1:12:09 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Crim
Geez man you set my gaydar off from a different website even....

Who is posting these comments on a different website? Tell that to the one projecting his fear of his gayness on this thread. . . not me. This guy has been trying to put words in my mouth all night. Enough is enough. Histrionic has nothing to do with it. I am not the TROLL on here. Now we have you projecting. SHEESH!

170 posted on 04/11/2015 1:13:27 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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To: Swordmaker
I am not the TROLL on here.

Would you mind repeating that a few more times? It sounded funny the first time.

171 posted on 04/11/2015 1:17:22 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Swordmaker

Nope.... I’m watching you fly into histronics, flipping between caps and bolds in a fit of rage...and calling someone who is anti gay a “sick bigot”

You seem to be taking it rather personally....

I sence emotional investment beyond a debate point.

I usually avoid fanboi arguments but that was just too good to pass up.


172 posted on 04/11/2015 1:18:21 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
The way you phrase it makes it sound like a sexual orientation. I wonder if it is true that some people are born wanting an iWatch.

WOW! You just prove my point with every post. GET HELP, soon. YOU ARE DERANGED. Do you always spend your time writing insanity on Apple threads at 1AM ??? Get out and get a life. . .

173 posted on 04/11/2015 1:18:40 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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To: Crim
Nope.... I’m watching you fly into histronics, flipping between caps and bolds in a fit of rage...and calling someone who is anti gay a “sick bigot”

He is bigoted against APPLE users. I don't give a damn about his stand on gay people except his attribution that ALL APPLE users are somehow gay because they choose to use Apple products. THAT IS SICK BIGOTRY. We are getting damn tired of it. . . and YOU come on here and claim your "gaydar" had been tweaked. GIVE IT A REST!

174 posted on 04/11/2015 1:21:14 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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To: Swordmaker
WOW!

So, were you born with an apple-orientation or did you choose your present orientation later on?

175 posted on 04/11/2015 1:21:54 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
So, were you born with an apple-orientation or did you choose your present orientation later on?

ASS

176 posted on 04/11/2015 1:23:41 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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To: Swordmaker

“We”?

So now your a spokes person for apple buyers?

BTW I would never think about buying an apple product for pure reasons like the fact they support the leftists...or recent reasons like sticking their nose into Indiana politics while selling products in countries that execute Homosexuals.

But hey...you go right ahead and support them with your dollars.

But dont assume you also hold the moral high ground after doing so.


177 posted on 04/11/2015 1:25:19 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Swordmaker
ASS

Tim Cook wants you to say that.

178 posted on 04/11/2015 1:37:03 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Crim
So now your a spokes person for apple buyers?

I maintain the Apple Ping list of over 700 of your fellow Freepers. . . and I know how they feel on this subject. The list members FReepmail me about how offended they are by the tenor of the threads engendered by the nastiness of you insult slinging, homo-name calling TROLLS. I think I am qualified to speak for the Apple users and buyers on FreeRepublic as a spokes person. Or would you like me to ping them so they ALL could tell you they don't like being called HOMO and QUEER because they chose to buy a Mac or an iPhone or a WATCH by juvenile idiots on FreeRepublic??? They've said it often enough because it has been going on for YEARS and we are sick and tired of it. This is just more of the same from more idiots, piled higher and deeper. . . and it makes us more SICK AND TIRED of it. And it makes you people who do it even more pathetic when you do it. So cut it out!

This Ethan character is just the last in a LONG line of that ilk being as nasty as he can. Don't add your name to the list.

BTW I would never think about buying an apple product for pure reasons like the fact they support the leftists...or recent reasons like sticking their nose into Indiana politics while selling products in countries that execute Homosexuals.

So did Microsoft, Google (Android), HP, Intel, FaceBook, Twitter, and about 50 other high-tech companies. In addition NASCAR, the NBA, and a host of non-Tech companies did the same stupid thing. Microsoft started supporting the homosexual legislative agenda TEN YEARS AGO with technical and financial support. I suppose you like the results of their support. Google has been a supporter for far longer. . . and is intimately involved in the White House. . . and puts their agenda items at the top of Google searches.

Microsoft supports the anti-gun movement with huge donations. . . and have made far higher political donations to leftists than Apple ever has. . . but you claim it is Apple that has supported leftists. Google is in bed with Obama. . . but I bet you use an Android phone. . . which facilitates spying on you. . . as does Microsoft. While Apple refuses to give the keys to its encryption to the government.

Apple just got involved recently after staying out of social and political issues and you choose to pick on Apple to the exclusion of all of these others who ALSO do business with countries that execute homosexuals. Are you going to boycott every one of those businesses from your dollars too, or just take the easy route of not buying products from Apple that you would NEVER have bought anyway, just so you can look like you are doing something constructive? HYPOCRITE.

I have never claimed the "moral" high ground. . . that's you anti-Apple hate brigade trolls who have found another club to hammer with on these threads. . . as you hypocritically use your Microsoft products and your Google Android phones built by foreign companies that have been pushing the homosexual agenda for years.

Now, you can get up on YOUR high-horse and look down your snooty nose at all of us Apple users

179 posted on 04/11/2015 2:02:15 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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To: Swordmaker
Your first link is botched. It should be My first week with the Apple Watch — Ben Bajarin — TechPinions.
180 posted on 04/11/2015 2:12:19 AM PDT by cynwoody
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