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It will be bought in droves by the usual suspects (who will mostly then have to work out how to read the time) and who will replace it with iWatch 2 in 12 months time. By iWatch 6, it will be so big you will need special training in order to raise your left arm, and will melt if it gets damp.
I predict a massive sales success.
I however will stick to my antiquated analogue titanium cased watch, now twenty years old and still working perfectly despite the serious abuse it has received over the years.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I predict a massive sales success.
I disagree... initial sales will be OK but after a month or two I expect it to flop.
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It's an Apple product. The style-is-everything fanboise would have to have it even if it was made of compressed baby brains and severely injured you every time you wore it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Contrary to the BS you guys push around here there really aren't that many true Apple fanboys. A few million... yes, and they'll buy it in the first few months. Then it needs to stand on its own merits.
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wow you make a big assumption there, based on previous iphone products I doubt it will tell the time very well
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: you will need special training in order to raise your left arm
I can think of a training that geeks, e.g. primary targets for those kind of iWatch products, performs because they lack of ... girlfriends.
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 wrong arm...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: By iWatch 6, it will be so big you will need special training in order to raise your left arm
Ah, there's a global market of Man U fans who all have one over developed arm that it will suit.
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This is the one [^] I wear, and most importantly, it tells me when it's time to go home.
But I do have this one that I wear occasionally, geek chic[^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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 It's been ages since I've seen an LCD watch for sale. I'd thought they'd stopped making them.
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The second one is about as smart as a watch should get in my opinion. Hell who wants a watch to tell you someone is calling you?
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Mike Mullikin wrote: It's not true but I
Only the guilty feel a need to prove their innocence. 
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I've yet to see a "smart watch" that isn't fugly -- and I've yet to think of a good reason for owning one.
Tiny screen, very limited battery life (if you use it for anything other than telling the time), and (worst of all) it's stuck on your damned wrist, so you have to pose like a ballerina to use it.
Do they expect us to do out e-mail on them? Surf the web? Write documents? Code?
The only plus I can even think of is that android/ios make it easy to set alarms, timers, and reminders.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: What say you?
I say, if Apple wants to sell a product whose single purpose has traditionally been to tell time, then I hope they've fixed the time issues they've been having for a few years[^] on December 31st.
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I have had a Timex Datalink watch since the early 90's. It syncs everything I need it to sync and the battery lasts for a year. hmmmm. I am thinking it is mucho better than the Apple iGrape watch.
Timexy Datalinkageee[^]
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I don't understand this product. Worse, I don't think Apple understands it either.
The tech side is cool, but the poor battery life and the fact that it must be tethered to an iPhone make it a lot less appealing. If it was a stand-alone device with a battery that didn't need constant recharging, I'd like it from the tech angle.
But as a watch? I don't think Apple has a clue about watches. They are pricing these things for the luxury market, $500+ for the standard version and $10k+ plus for the solid gold one. Don't even get me started on what they are charging for the (fairly cheap) straps. So you can pay as much as you paid for your phone, or enough for a good car. Most iPhone owners can't afford or won't pay this.
And the luxury version? Holy cow, a solid gold case adds a few hundred dollars to the cost of a watch, not $9,500+. The real facepalm is how they're marketing the sapphire crystal, as if it's a precious gem that you can only get on a $10,000+ watch. A sapphire crystal adds about $20 to the cost of a watch, they are no big deal, I have a $300 Seiko that came with sapphire crystals front and back. I also have solid gold Hamiltons with fine movements that you can pick up on the vintage market for $400-$500. A solid gold watch with a sapphire crystal is not something that you pay five figures for, unless it houses a rare mechanical movement that is a work of art rather than some gadget that will be obsolete in a few years.
And this is where it really gets crazy: people pay big money for fine watches because they are fine jewelry, and one of the most important characteristics of fine jewelry is longevity. Real jewelry lasts forever, you can pass it down to your kids and grandkids. I have watches from as far back as 1918 that still run like new and are as useful as they ever were. Three years from now, what are you going to do with one of these gold iWatches? May as well melt down the case, because the rest of it will be worthless.
Apple seems to think that they can compete in the luxury market by inflating prices and making their products more "exclusive," but sticking a gadget into a gold case does not make it a fine watch. It's just bling, not fine jewelry, and most people who buy expensive watches aren't going to touch this thing. Wealthy geeks will, but not collectors. It's like putting a Porsche body on a Prius and calling it a luxury sports car.
I really think that Apple should have gone for the low-end market here. This "watch" is a phone accessory, not a status symbol, and it's too expensive for a large segment of iPhone users. The mark-up seems insane, I expect the expensive models won't sell well and we'll see a big price drop in the near future.
modified 10-Mar-15 10:51am.
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If it was anyone other than Apple I'd think it was all an elaborate April Fool unrolling yet further depths of hoax over the next 3 weeks!
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Often when I mess up on my PC I 'blame it on the cat'.
Just had my third BSOD in about a year. I initially
blamed them on Skype, but Skype was not running during
the last one. In each case however my cat, who sometimes
has a habit of pacing back and forth on my desk and rubbing
up against the PC, was active. It suddenly dawned on me
that static electricity was the problem! (The indoor air
can be quite dry here in winter). I grounded both my PC
and the cat...we'll see what happens now.
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how on earth do you ground the cat?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
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Cut off its legs?  *
* Just joking I don't suggest people try this at home.
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wouldn't that bring the belly hair in contact with the carpet and create more static?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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If you have ever held a cat with two outstretched arms just behind their front legs and their rear legs you will see how practical and effective two posts coming out of the wall would make a cat storage rack.
- And if you act now, you can get not one, but two Ronco cat racks
(or puss posts if you wish)for the purring low price of $19.95.
:Ron
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: how on earth do you ground the cat?
You hide the car keys on Saturday, obviously.
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Ground the cat...ie, make sure the cat stays on the floor 
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