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The Apple Watch Is Neat, But That Is All
Business Day Live ^ | April 23 2015, 12:42 UTC | Jeffrey Joslin

Posted on 04/23/2015 1:33:52 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

PEOPLE have been raving about the Apple Watch, so it is probably time for a rant from a devil’s advocate.

For starters, Apple’s smartwatch is neat, but that might be the only thing it has going for it. If the product’s intended function is providing you with around-the-clock health information, then there are a lot of roadblocks that need to be addressed.

Here are five: (...) 1. Battery life is as terrible as you would expect. 2. Too little screen for too much information. 3. It is too big. 4. Even the positive reviews are negative. 5. The Apple Watch could still fail. (...)

(Excerpt) Read more at bdlive.co.za ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: apple; applewatch; failure; watch
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Tim Cook = iFruit


81 posted on 04/23/2015 5:16:00 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Interesting.

I assume you use a PC, right?

And your house– you built it, or bought it from someone?


82 posted on 04/23/2015 5:16:17 PM PDT by IncPen (Not a single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: Star Traveler
This kind of thing, from a poster, is simply UNBALANCED and someone is totally in need of PSYCHIATRIC HELP for accusing Jim Robinson like this!

I read his posts over the last few days. He needs psychiatric help. He was winding up and becoming rapidly delusional. If there are any Freepers who are his friend, please check on him. Seriously.

I don't think anyone can take any joy in that opus.
83 posted on 04/23/2015 5:18:58 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Star Traveler
It sounds like he may be a disabled Vet suffering from PTSD. If that's the case, he really does need help.
84 posted on 04/23/2015 5:21:12 PM PDT by amigatec (2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Call a spade a spade. Answer the 5 questions I mentioned, and then maybe, just maybe, the good conservatives will see past your libertarian and/or liberal views on technology and take you and your band of happy hippies seriously.

Sounds like you are on a wind up here too. Take a breather. Hold off on the drink, and get some sleep. You'll feel better.
85 posted on 04/23/2015 5:22:15 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists; amigatec

LOL ... I see you’re moving in the same direction as that other guy that got banned today! ... :-) ...

You should “back away from the edge” and get some help for your obsessive/compulsive disorder on products you don’t like. You don’t need to “go over the edge”.

It’s one thing when a large segment of society buys products from a company that you don’t like, but it’s something completely different when you get unbalanced and go “whacko” about those people.


86 posted on 04/23/2015 5:22:58 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: BunnySlippers

Makes you wonder why they choose to do it.


87 posted on 04/23/2015 5:23:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one the<ire to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: IncPen

Are these trick questions?

Of course I have a “personal computer”. You assume old for technically ignorant. How typical of youth.


88 posted on 04/23/2015 5:25:08 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: PA Engineer

He’s definitely “winding up” ... and the trouble with that is when people do that, they become unhinged and unbalanced, and then do things they regret later!

I don’t know why a few hundred Freepers buying Apple products causes a certain number of posters to “go unbalanced”! There should be a study done on this ... :-) ...


89 posted on 04/23/2015 5:27:31 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

The only thing I have issue with are blind followers. Like people who follow Obama. Or chia pets. Or even Al Gore.

Or whatever is “in fashion” but is so ridiculous and outrageous, even a toddler could see right through it. Like fruitcakes who want to be married to each other, even though their plumbing says otherwise.


90 posted on 04/23/2015 5:27:36 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: ctdonath2
I’m just observing that you’re spending considerable time and energy telling others you’re not interested in the topic at hand

BTW I never said I was uninterested in the topic. And what do you care about my time? Why would you even care about what I might or might not be interested in?

I don't understand this homeowners association type attitude.

I said I was not longer interested in these endless tech trinkets and gadgets, as I have enough of that redundant garbage. It's not a must have. So what? Why do you have a problem wit this?

Lots of people are trending this same way. Trust me.

It's tech overkill. For many it's just another new wizbang toy.

Most of these companies pushing this stuff are spending lots of money trying to convince people they just can't do with out their latest wizbang gadget. They need $uckers. And I have no problem with that. It makes their wheels go round.

Sorry if ya don't like my comments. But you'll just have to deal with it.

Cheers.

91 posted on 04/23/2015 5:29:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pain, as in an accident, losing family,y and friends. Losing a job, ill health and the like.’

I’m sure their suffering should keep you in high spirits for a long time.


92 posted on 04/23/2015 5:30:40 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: IncPen; Up Yours Marxists

BUT ... he did his due diligence to make sure NO LIBERALS were involved in the building of his house, or that the real estate company contained no liberals, and he checked the assembly line records to make sure no liberals had their hands on his car! ... LOL ...


93 posted on 04/23/2015 5:31:03 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler; Up Yours Marxists
I haven't seem this much hatred toward a company in a long time.

Up Yours Marxists, you do realize that Henry Ford was Anti-Semitic, and since own so many Ford products, does that also make you Anti-Semitic?

94 posted on 04/23/2015 5:31:32 PM PDT by amigatec (2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: amigatec

Like I said before ... and this is no slur ... he definitely does need help, and from his description of himself, it’s probably related to the military and anger issues, and he’s “projecting” onto certain Freepers here because of it.

This is someone who can get DANGEROUS in real life ... to himself and others around him. He needs to recognize that and get help.


95 posted on 04/23/2015 5:34:32 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: amigatec

You mistake hatred or contempt for a product or with a hatred for a company.

I don’t hate Apple. I hate the concept of LEMMINGS doing whatever Apple tells them to buy.

But buyers are stupid and gullible. So I can’t blame Apple for making lots of money over stupid schmucks. That will calm down after people realize their worthless purchase.

That’s the beauty of capital economics. And our right to peaceably discuss our disgust of all things in a forum without being sent to the gallows.


96 posted on 04/23/2015 5:37:08 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Star Traveler

So now you’re admitting that you follow Apple because it’s OK to be a Liberal?

You’re on the wrong side of the internet if you believe what you say. I’m suspecting you’re a plant here. Perhaps the people who administer the site would be most interested in your current arguments.


97 posted on 04/23/2015 5:39:10 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Star Traveler
it’s the APPLE-HATER JIHADISTS here on Free Republic who won’t — and don’t — like the Apple Watch

Then you should just post more Apple advertisement threads. Do 5 a day or more. That should be good for an occasional laugh.

98 posted on 04/23/2015 5:41:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

1. I have a number of friends and business associates who bought or will buy an Apple Watch.

Not one is buying it to tell the time!

Are you guys really that deluded?


99 posted on 04/23/2015 5:41:49 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Most of it is self-inflicted from their “lifestyle.”


100 posted on 04/23/2015 5:43:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one the<ire to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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