Get over yourself.
You really think 700 "ping list" members would care for (or need) THIS latest Apple promotional article?
It's ridiculous from the headline.
It's not worth replying to in detail.
It's all so tangled beyond comprehension, it would take at least twice the column length to unravel, show and explain how and why that is, and most likely (if present patters hold) you still wouldn't be able to accept that in addition to the article itself being a piece of Apple watch promotional commentary fluffcrap, your own reasoning & patterns of self-justification added to it, are seriously flawed (and near worthless) also.
Actually, yes. . . and some of them thank me for posting articles such as this which is NOT an Apple promotional piece. YOU may think it is, but it is not. A lot are thinking about buying the device—it's not a watch—as an accessory for use with their iPhones and would certainly be interested in why someone who has preferred very expensive timepiece jewelry watches to suddenly eschew wearing those in exchange for a $400 wrist accessory for his phone. It might help them make their choice.
You naysayers who can't seem to see beyond the ends of your time-telling-old-fashioned ideas of what a watch is think it's just the same and cannot understand and "beyond comprehension" because of that inability to realize it is NOT A WATCH like you've known before. Right now people are trying to define it.
This is one more bit of information for people who are trying to define it for themselves.
Those who have bought them have been surveyed as being 97% satisfied with them. For an initial product, that's unheard of.