Personal Apple Watch
Review from EE Times
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Posted on 07/10/2015 2:27:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
And I also think it makes me look cool and “progressive” and makes a statement...
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I can’t get past the title. It is such a sad statement on people and society today....a watch/phone/tech gadget “transformed their life?”
You posted this reply so fast, you obviously did not read the article. . . Try reading before you bloviate your anti-Apple FUD.
Try learning something by "getting past the title" before being judgmental.
I’m looking forward to getting mine!
I say that with some fear, because there are a lot of crabby old geezers on this forum who will immediately surge forth to tell you they have the same watch they bought for $3.00 in 1952 - but who cares about their $3.00 watch?
I don’t know why they are so obsessed with posting insults if they’re theoretically not even interested in the product. Anyway, they should remember that once upon a time, the $3.00 watch was new technology and many people probably thought it was pretentious and above your station to have a watch anyway. Silly Luddites!
Somehow I knew he would be a Starbucks fan.
It’s an advertisement. That’s all.
They don't have a life or friends beyond this, I'd imagine. It's the only way they can get anyone to respond to them. They think the feedback they get is demonstrative of their fact they are alive. . . sort of like the feeling taggers get for putting their ugly graffiti on walls everywhere, destroying the beauty of things others built. . . or spitting in the punch bowl at a party, thinking it's funny. The only people who find it funny are other 13 year old juveniles.
Now that's a cool feature I didn't think of!
Here in NYC, all the tourists are using those selfie-sticks that they sell at the newstands and nothing looks dorkier than a selfie-stick. Except maybe riding a Segway with a bicycle helmet.
Not sad at all actually. When I was a kid growing up, all the gadgets we are using today was science fiction back then.
For example, when you wanted to contact somebody out of state in 1975, you had basically two options. Write a letter, stamp an envelope and hope they get it in three days. Or make a very expensive long distance telephone call. Today, my grown children live out of state and it's like having them in the next room with all these texts, chat sessions and video calls on Skype, etc.
Maybe the younger folks who grew up with all this stuff think it's no big deal but for anybody over 50, this is truly transforming technology.
An editorial review by a senior Advanced Technology Editor at the premier online Electronic Engineering magazine in the World with editions in multiple nations and you dismiss what he has to say as a mere "advertising?" You are deluded. He is not in the business of selling Apple products. . . nor, as far as I know, does Apple advertise with EE Times, or with their parent corporation UBM.
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 projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
Thanks to FReeper FRiend Scutter for the heads up.
I can see using a Segway as part of a patrolman's job in a mall. . . but as a tourist? Unless one is in someway disabled, walking is so much better for us, they are absurd.
“They don’t have a life or friends beyond this, I’d imagine. It’s the only way they can get anyone to respond to them. They think the feedback they get is demonstrative of their fact they are alive. . . sort of like the feeling taggers get for putting their ugly graffiti on walls everywhere, destroying the beauty of things others built. . . or spitting in the punch bowl at a party, thinking it’s funny. The only people who find it funny are other 13 year old juveniles.”
Classic projection.
It’s the flowery “transformative” sales pitch I was poking at. They are making the watch to be the next Jesus Christ. It’s a watch. It’s a phone. Like it or don’t. But it’s not going to transform lives. If people think so that’s pretty shallow.
By the way, and not directed at you, I noticed for expressing my opinion without insulting anyone, I am referred to as the cranky old fart with no life. Some folks need to stop being so sensitive. There is a whole lot more to life than what someone posts about me or anyone on any forum.
FRegards
“...there are a lot of crabby old geezers on this forum who will immediately surge forth to tell you they have the same watch they bought for $3.00 in 1952...
I don’t know why they are so obsessed with posting insults if they’re theoretically not even interested in the product. “
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IMHO, they are obsessed with posting their insults because they suffer from Apple Derangement Syndrome (ADS). It’s the same cast of ADS sufferers who show up over and over with their insults, misinformation and lies. Mama would have said “those folks are strange...stay away from them”.
They are the Apple Watch users who are finding that it does make things far easier for them. . . and if they like the author of this article chose to make this claim, who are you, who does not use one, to claim different? You don't have the experience to say differently. There are informed opinions and opinions pulled out of nether orifices. . . and we have seen too many of the latter type. Those get tiresome.
FRegards back at you, Magnum44.
I like the iPhone 6, the iPad and the Macs....
That being said the iWatch..... is a 100% complete turnoff.
The #1 issue with the iWatch..... is the screen size.
It’s simply TOO DAM SMALL.
Even though I like Apple Products I will not purchase the iWatch.
Another BIG MISTAKE Apple has recently made is with the music.
1) I like the way the new music works, but APPLE IS NUTS TO THINK I WILL PAY $10 A MONTH FOR IT after 3 months. I’m dropping it.
Why pay for music when I can a Sirius (stream only) satellite commercial free music, TV channels and NFL for the same price?
What about Amazon’s Prime where you get free music, free e-books, free movies and 2 day delivery for free at LESS THAN what Apple is charging?
What about all the free music online via web sites like Youtube, Pandora, Sound Cloud,Vimeo, etc...?
Finally Spoofy which is similar Apple is doing only has 6 million payers World Wide. What out of 7.3 Billion people. It’s a joke!
Sorry I just do not see Apple iWatch and the streaming music for $10 as popular as their iPhones ever.
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