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Apple Watch: An Overnight Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Carl Howe blog ^ | Posted on April 16, 2015 | By Carl Howe

Posted on 04/19/2015 5:26:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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To: doorgunner69
I was very interested in tablets/ipad until I found you needed a smartphone and data connection/subscription to do most things with them.

Not true. An iPad and in fact most tablets, are fully functional with a WIFI connection. They never require a smartphone to function. An iPad can be had with a cellular connection which allows it the freedom to connect to the Internet without a WIFI connection. . . and there were some Android tablets that also had cellular connectivity as well for the same purpose.

My personal iPad has the LTE cellular connectivity because I often use it away from a WIFI connection. Because I have a smartphone, service for it costs me an additional $10 per month on my plan.

21 posted on 04/19/2015 6:08:50 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: Eric in the Ozarks
Care to guess who wore it ?

Dick Tracy. . . but it was only a wrist two-way radio and later a two-way TV. As I recall, it did not have any other capacities. I would give the smartwatch invention to the comic book authors of Batman. . .

22 posted on 04/19/2015 6:11:13 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: 867V309

Hoo Raa ... you “won” the booby prise.


23 posted on 04/19/2015 6:12:45 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Swordmaker
If Gould were around today, it would be the “2-way wrist Kindle.”
24 posted on 04/19/2015 6:13:32 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: sten

It was not designed to give you the time. But the, given your proclivities, maybe it was to give only you the time.


25 posted on 04/19/2015 6:15:06 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: sten
I’m sure the fanboys will be all over it, they’re fad driven and will hop on anything deemed ‘worthy’ by those in the media paid to say as much.

Wrist watches are fad driven?
26 posted on 04/19/2015 6:15:23 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: BunnySlippers
Hoo Raa ... you “won” the booby prise.

If you're taking flak it means you're over the target.


27 posted on 04/19/2015 6:16:46 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: House Atreides
" Bizarre behavior from otherwise normal folk."

I'm not at all willing to bet on the italicized part... ;-)

28 posted on 04/19/2015 6:17:05 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: 867V309

I’m sure we’ll see you again trying to be relevant. Till next Apple thread.


29 posted on 04/19/2015 6:19:29 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: PA Engineer

about as much as mobile phones


30 posted on 04/19/2015 6:21:17 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: BunnySlippers
I’m sure we’ll see you again trying to be relevant. Till next Apple thread.

Weak.


31 posted on 04/19/2015 6:24:08 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 867V309

Yeah, just as your stupid post on this thread.


32 posted on 04/19/2015 6:25:04 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: 867V309

“If you’re taking flak it means you’re over the target. “

You’re not “taking flak” you’re getting called out over unoriginal, annoying, and just-plain-wrong trolling.

These threads remind me of the first threads about the iPad... “It’s named after a feminine product!” “It’s going to bomb!1!!!” Yeah, how did that work out again?

I doubt I’ll be an Apple Watch early adopter, but I’ll probably get one at some point for the fitness aspects.


33 posted on 04/19/2015 6:26:10 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

” Bizarre behavior from otherwise normal folk.”

I’m not at all willing to bet on the italicized part... ;-)
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I wouldn’t bet money on it either. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt and just assuming they aren’t TOTALLY ignorant and aren’t cursed by low IQs...but I could be wrong in those assumptions. But their irrational hatred is definitely VERY bizarre and displays some sort of personality defect IMHO.


34 posted on 04/19/2015 6:26:18 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: ifinnegan
How many iPhones are in use?

Over 1.3 Billion iOS devices have been sold since the first iPhones were sold on June 29, 2007. over 450,000,000 of those in the last four years alone were iPhones capable of connecting to the Apple Watch. Apple claims that 700-800 million iPhones are still active around the world. The balance of the iOS devices are iPads and iPods (not all iPods, especially the early models, ran on iOS).

35 posted on 04/19/2015 6:30:38 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: PreciousLiberty
These threads remind me of the first threads about the iPad... “It’s named after a feminine product!” “It’s going to bomb!1!!!” Yeah, how did that work out again?

You guys are so cute.


36 posted on 04/19/2015 6:59:42 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: sten
I’m sure the fanboys will be all over it, they’re fad driven and will hop on anything deemed ‘worthy’ by those in the media paid to say as much.

Exactly what fads are those? From all perspectives I've seen, it is the Android users who follow fads in phones. You don't see Apple users jumping from phone maker to phone maker to catch the next faddish gimmick in phone design. Nor does Apple jump quickly on Fad spec list additions to their phones or tablets such as 3D or 4K screens, useless phone sensors such as Samsung's SpO2 blood oximeter and atmospheric hydrometers. Exactly what "fads" do Apple users, who generally keep their computers far longer than Windows computer users do, follow?

The evidence is that Apple users while fans of Apple products are not at all driven by "fads". . . and do not jump ship to other products merely to follow the popular trend. If that were so, they wouldn't be Apple users.

37 posted on 04/19/2015 7:07:38 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

I will still be surprised if I cannot buy one of these for $25 on eBay or Craigslist in mid July.


38 posted on 04/19/2015 7:08:19 PM PDT by jlindseyx42 (Namaste)
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To: dinodino

I agree, when the display reaches 700 inches and the weight declines to 0.005 pounds and the battery life is extended to 5 years, Apple may have an iffy product. Until then, let the suckers beware !


39 posted on 04/19/2015 7:14:41 PM PDT by jlindseyx42 (Namaste)
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To: Swordmaker

No Apple watch for me. My ultimate watch to own is real watch, a Omega Sea master Chronograph. Probably one the finest watches made and will Dawn sure outlast a Apple watch, plus not lose it’s value.


40 posted on 04/19/2015 7:14:46 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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