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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
SO ... he’s trying to take me for an imaginary ride inside that vacant head of his ... LOL ...
Sword is called you a liar. He addressed that to you. And Tim Kook sucks
Ummm ... you better lay off those drugs ... Rand Paul isn’t President yet ... LOL ...
And Tim Kook sucks gaily painted Easter eggs
Ummm ... you know him? I’ve never met him ... LOL ...
I have bought and then un-bought Apple products quite a few time. The usual way I unbuy them is to stomp the offender to pieces and mail the remains back to Tim Kook, Steve Jobs, Jonny Ives, as the case my be. I few times I have just given it to a homeless dude along with a warning that it sucks
I have not had a chance to stomp a lamester Apple watch to bits yet. Send me yours and I’ll mail the bits to Tim Kook
Did you hear it was a bigger product release than the first iPhone?! ... WOW!
LOL ... at least you’re “trying” as a comic ... :-) ...
A hot Xiaomi deal for you
My positives? These were selected by the author of the article. . . but in any case they come from where they come; that is the nature of reviews in the main stream media. What does the political leaning of a publication have to do with a technology review??? Would you prefer the reviews came from
AppleInsider
MacDailyNews
MacSurfer Headline News
9 to 5 Mac
Mac Rumors
MacNewsNetwork
MacWorld
Cult of Mac
or any of the sites that have been giving rave reviews about the iPhone 6 and 6plus that cover mobile technology in general? If the source reviews had been such, then the criticism would have been that they were Apple fan echo chambers. It is just that these sources where the reviews appeared ARE the main stream media where most reviews are printed and many of them are reprinting reviews FROM tech source reviewers.
There were actually over 24 reviews of the Apple Watch, all of the essentially positive, and four that aggregated the minor quibbles that all even glowing reviews have and made reviews that resulted in complete negative slams on the Apple watch based solely on those quibbled out-takes.
Yes, Charles, there are non-review opinion editorial articles on the Apple Watch where the authors question the need or even the philosophy behind wearable technology, but they are not reviews. These writers have never touched or used the product or sometimes, from reading what they write, have a limited grasp of what the watch could do.
The only ones inserting politics into technology into this issue are the Anti-Apple people. They seem to think that the choice of a computer or phone defines people's political orientation. . . and some on here are convinced it defines their sexual orientation, and let the users of Macs in very explicit rude terms what they believe they are for merely being users of Apple products. Nothing could be more silly or insane, depending on the sanity level of the accuser.
I have told people like you hundreds of times why I post on Apple threads. I have been asked by now over 700 of your fellow Freepers to keep them appraised of things affecting their Apple computers, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. I am not an employee of Apple or an unpaid marketer for them. I post both positive and negative articles that will be of interest to the 700 members of the list. Each and every one of those 700 plus has asked me to do this by asking to be added to the ping list. This is an INTEREST GROUP on FreeRepublic, and it has Jim and John Parkinson's OK. Jim has even banned particularly bad behaving Anti-Apple haters for attempting to start Flame Wars, which are against FreeRepublic policy. The most recent was only a few months ago.
I accepted that obligation to those Freepers and I take it seriously. I keep my promises just as I do for the Shroud of Turin Ping List, which is not as active because there are fewer article published, and the Electric Universe Ping List, both of which I maintain the ping lists for which are smaller than the Apple/Mac Ping list. Part of the task I took on was to provide accurate and true information for all of those lists. . . and, in my mind, to counter the falsehood posted by the lies posted by the disrupters.
Right now, JR is not happy with Tim Cook's very public stance on homosexual rights (he personally posted a thread on the subject relating to the Indiana freedom of Religion Act), nor am i. I think it is a management mistake to be so vocal about a "personal" agenda that is so out of the main stream it will alienate potential customers. Steve Jobs, despite being Liberal was once asked why Apple itself never participated in Democrat politics or made donations to Democrat candidates or causes told the Democrat activist that about half of Apple customers were Republicans and he was not about to piss off half of Apple's customers by getting Apple involved in politics or Liberal issues. Tim Cook did not learn that lesson from Steve, or did, but allows his reprehensible homosexuality to trump his good sense.
However, the sexual orientation of a single employee, or his bad behavior should not be the single decision point on selecting technology or any product, especially when ultimately, ALL of the competition are participating in the underlying behaviors. The primary issue under discussion is the petition against Indiana's passage of the Religious Rights Act and the pending act in other states that are essentially identical to the Federal law and the laws of 19 other states that are already on the books. Apple merely joined Microsoft, Google (Android), Intel, Facebook, Yelp, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NASCAR, the NBA, Walmart, Macy's, and over sixty additional CEOs and organizations and businesses. Apple was singled out by the NEWS MEDIA as the poster boy of all those businesses because Apple generates views and Internet advertising clicks, any time its name appears in a headline. . . and add that the CEO himself is Gay. This was a construct of the Gay Mafia and the Main Stream News Media. They would not have gotten anywhere near the "legs" on their articles with any other company name on the headlines.
You are one of those who seem to believe that owning Apple product precludes being a conservative. That is patently absurd. The majority of my friends are conservative and they are all Mac and iPhone users. The few Liberals I know are PC users. . . but a few are also Mac users. It's a mix.
I had decided I was going to ignore your impertinent questions as they are, literally, none of your business. But I will answer them.
Marriage: No marriage should be recognized by the Federal Government. It is a relationship established by God. Why should the government have anything to do with it approving or not approving it? Even in taxation, the IRS has made the tax code more complex than it needs to be by involving Marriage into the equations of figuring out our taxes, Simplify everything by establishing that there is a personal exemption that applies to everyone equally in a household. If that household is supported by a taxpayer, then the exemption applies to that income that supports that person. Do the same thing for every marriage based and child based law. Done. Over.
Judicial Orders: The unelected, appointed tyrants in black robes have far overstepped the limited power the Constitution grants them. Every judge below the Supreme court is a creature if Congress, working in the EXECUTIVE branch, working for the Justice Department, also a creature of the Congressional branch. These all can be contained by ACT of Congress. Congress should reign them in. Their orders have no teeth except those we give them.
Is Gay Marriage or sex morally wrong? Those are questions for Religion to decide, not government. My belief is that Gay Marriage and Gay sex are not beneficial to the advancement of society. They do not produce children. They are the ultimate selfishness. By my thinking and belief that makes them immoral from a natural perspective. God's law did not support things that were bad for us. . . and the Gay lifestyle is demonstrably bad for it's practitioners in that it leads to HIV infections, AIDS, etc., that makes it healthily impractical for long term survivability of the organism, and the religions of the world condemn it as immoral. MY belief is that it is immoral. I do not practice it and would not want a to be approached to have homosexual sex. That being said, I don't care what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms. I do care when they do it in the streets, marching and dancing naked in front of everyone, with in-your-face arrogance, acting in uncivilized manners intended to offend people in advancement of their agenda. But I would object to HETEROSEXUAL people doing it in the streets, marching and dancing naked in front of everyone, with-in-your-face arrogance, acting in uncivilized manners intended to offend people in advancement of THEIR agenda. I am not a prude and I do not object to women wearing bikinis, etc., but the venue and purpose for doing so is the defining criteria.
Candidates: I like Walker because I prefer a governor who has actually done executive work to occupy the Oval Office. Walker has walked the walk (pun intended) and has major successes against the worst the Democrat and Union machines could throw at him. I knew Ronald Reagan personally (I had a standing invitation to drop in and go for a Swim at the Governor's Mansion when he lived on 45th Street in Sacramento). While I like Senator Cruz, I am concerned that people who come from the legislature are too used to compromise in the give and take of crafting a bill. Cruz has a Natural Born Citizen ship problem that I worry about. We have been slamming Obama on his qualifications for not meeting the letter and the spirit of being a Natural Born Citizen and I do not think he ever has met the legal qualifications. I also do not think that Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz meets the strict legal requirement. My study of the qualification is that BOTH parents must be US Citizens at the time of birth and the birth must be on US Soil or a the parents on a mission for the US Government for Natural Born citizenship to be legally conferred to the child. Cruz's father was born in Cuba and only became a US citizen in 2005. . . and Cruz himself was born in Canada while his parents were there working in private business. I just don't see that meeting the strict standard. It's better than the bone fides that I think Barrack Obama has, but it still falls short of the legal letter of the law. Too bad.
ABortion: It is murder. The only abortions that should be permitted are those which saves the life of the mother, or is the product of rape or incest. Abortion as an alternative to birth control is an abomination.
Tax dollars and corporate subsidies, voice in laws, etc. Corporations are assemblies of people. "Congress shall make no law... abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." However, Congress also cannot make laws that are beneficial to any particular group or person. The laws are supposed to be for general welfare. Under those principles, the only way Congress can benefit any individual company or corporation is to contract with them to buy goods and services by bidding open to all who wish to offer those goods and services. No tax payer funds or bills of attainder for any individual or "assembly of persons." Enough said.
Which Federal Agency should be abolished? Any that cannot be linked to any specific article or amendment of our Constitution. Start with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosive, and then move to the EPA and the Department of Education and keep going.
Re: the Second Amendment: Easy. The Second Amendment is all we need. All else are irrelevant and unconstitutional infringements. I managed the Old Sacramento Armory and Simms Gun Department back in the early 1970s and I am a concealed weapons carrier.
I am an educated as an Economist and Business Administration, ex-CEO, published author, ex-publsher, editor, founder of a large local charity (which I ran for 26 years), life-long Republican (although that may change if the Republican party doesn't get it's act together), small business owner in the IT field, now semi-retired, working on two novels, and a grandfather.
I would post on more conservative threads if I were not having to handle so many attacks and idiocy from the Apple-Hate Brigade with their constant twaddle and insults being slung by their campaign of FUD and innuendo they have been waging for years.
I have been quite active on FreeRepublic for years. . . and was involved in the outing of Dan Rather (One of my FR satire graphics was reprinted with permission in the book on the Dan Rather CBS fiasco,), the TWA-800 investigation (Look for Swordmaker's timeline and the analysis threads where I did the math on the CIA and NTSB cartoons showing they were impossible given the momentum of the 747-200 and where the Rude found the wreckage), the graphic examination of the Obama birth certificates, etc.
Not what you expected is it?
Happy now?
I addressed it to the LIAR. Star Traveler is not the liar, you are, Dennis.
Nope. Don't think I would want to meet him. He seems to act like the addictive personalities I've met over 26 years of working with people on the fringes of society. . . whether it is substance abuse or alcohol, that fact is not in evidence. He is a serial liar so he is not to be trusted with anything, I would not hire him for any position. He seems to have problems with impulsive behavior.
He was telling me what Cook did, at which point I was wondering how he knew, so I asked him ... if he knew the man ... because I sure don’t.
It sounded like he had some intimate knowledge about Cook, which would raise a bunch of questions from me ... :-) ...
Don’t blame me.....
Instead buy a Xiaomi
Oh, I thought you were asking about Dennis. . . LOL!
What is this, the third or fourth time you posted that link for buying a Xiaomi phone? Do you have a financial interest in the eBay company selling them?
I want you to buy one on ebay and review it for Free Republic Apple fanbois and fellow travelers
Xiaomi-Redmi2 ROCKS!!!
You buy it. Then start your Android Ping list with the review.
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