Apple Watch is here: all-new UI, tons of customization, two sizes, meet the digital crown
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Rippleman
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Where did anyone say apple was taking interest in the human condition?
captaincranky
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Using "Apple", and, "cure for cancer" in the same sentence is patently absurd, no matter what the intent.
Now, if you had have said, "Apple cures fatigue from carrying too much money around", that would be a different matter entirely.
"The watch will sync and take advantage of iPhone's GPS and Wi-Fi"!
I guess this means you need an iPhone to babysit your iWatch? "Don't leave home without both"! Do they talk to one another? Like, "hey iPhone do you know where are are"? Stuff like that?
Or maybe you can just talk to your watch, when you don't feel like dragging that big, heavy, iPhone out of your pocket.
My crystal ball says, "you will have a great business opportunity to cash in on double seat rubber duckies". That way, you can take the watch and the phone into the bathtub with you. To the hard core Apple iFan-atic, talking to Siri while tubbing, has got to be better than an actual date.
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And with all negative comments here you choose me to comment against. Strange much?
captaincranky
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In my alternate/ideal, universe/reality, Julio buys you one of them there lime green iWatches for Christmas, then has it surgically attached to your wrist.
Rippleman
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I can admit, the single biggest reason I love watching the forums on any techsite is to see all the intelligent people whine, cry and complain about anything apple. I sit back and laugh daily. Before you say what I know you will say, let me clarify I use and android based phone and tablet. You all should just see how silly you sound.
captaincranky
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I'm trying to supply the laugh track. That's my excuse for sounding silly. Should I sit on top of of a mountain and look down at it? BTW, how's the view?
dividebyzero
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A lot of threads are. One of my personal gripes is that certain other sites expunge older threads - especially those linking to predictive editorials and industry analysis.
As if there were any lingering doubt that Apple tailors its products to its user base...
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If you knew what I'd say in advance, you would have included a list of the substances you use to affect this state.
Prognostication score: 0/10.
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ChromeShine
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SAR on the wrist -- seems more like an intro for cancer. Ya never know.....
Snowden
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You are leaving out an important point - Apple IS a cancer.
Rippleman
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explain please... I feel like being entertained...
Snowden
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captaincranky
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OK class, that's pronounced, "eye-ja-ma kate-did"
cliffordcooley
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MilwaukeeMike
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I think many people confuse Apple with Apple customers. I'm an Android user, and I'm glad we have Apple. Apple is the reason the new Samsung tablets are so thin, and Apple continuously sets the standard for usability, battery life, design, camera, and efficiency. Basically, all premium phones are better because they have to compete with Apple. Apple makes great stuff, no one can argue that, but they charge you too much for the name 'Apple'.
But... us Android users get really annoyed at hearing how great Apple products are when they finally have features (4G, screen size) that have been included in Android devices for a few product generations while failing at basic stuff (like maps). We can't figure out the drooling over a new product that will STILL only have 16 GB of storage with no SD slot, while you can get an HTC phone that has 32GB with an SD slot. (and no Swiftkey... I don't know how they get along without Swiftkey!)
Apple users fall into two categories... 1) people will little smartphone knowledge who buy Apple because 'it's the best' who really don't know why Apple gets the hate because they don't know any different. They didn't evaluate Android to Apple before buying, they just got an iPhone because everyone has an iPhone. Rush Limbaugh is one of these. He wouldn't know an Android phone from his TV remote, but he's convinced Apple is light-years better. and...
2) younger 'creative' types for which Apple is part of their identity. They will stand by Apple no matter what, and are basically just huge victims of Choice-supportive bias, which means they love Apple because they've associated themselves with it, and to admit Apple isn't perfect would be like insulting your own taste in music. For them, it's personal. These are the people Samsung makes fun of in their commercials, and it's the ones who annoy Android users.
Now, I know that's a huge generalization, but those are the types that seem to be the most visible. Maybe there's a huge 3rd type who is the silent majority, but if there is, I haven't seen them.
Rippleman
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thank you for a chuckle, any chance for some more?
I don't (and have never) seen the apple users you speak of. I see only 3 types of users..
1) people that use apple products because for them it works perfectly
2) people that use android products because for them it works perfectly
3) people that use android products because they think it makes them look cool.
Rippleman
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I have many apple products.
MilwaukeeMike
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So in that Galaxy S2 commercial (from years ago) where the guy says 'I could never get a Samsung, I'm creative...' You don't get that joke? Wait... are you a barista?
I don't understand how using Android makes you look cool. The only way anyone would know you're using an Android is because it's NOT an iPhone. I stay on top of the phone market and I can't tell the difference between an LG and a Nexus 5 and a Droid and a Moto X from a distance. HTC and Samsung are a little easier to recognize, but most others' aren't. Android phones also get pretty cheap, all Apple phones are nice phones. They've never made a real effort at the low end of the market.
If people were buying phones to look cool with Android, you'd see cases with the little robot on the back. The only phone I know of with a big visible logo is Apple. Android also doesn't put 'Sent from my Android device' on their emails.
captaincranky
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You seem to be locked in a state of denial. Apple sells products that hipsters and yuppies feel compelled to stand in line so they can be the, "first upwardly mobile professional on their block to own one". In fact, they'll even pay people to stand in line for them.
If that isn't the very definition of, "thinking they're cool by having an Apple iPhone", I don't know what is. So now, the watch doesn't know where it is, unless you have an iPhone on you to tell it. If that doesn't smack of stupidity, and buying something just to have it, I'm at a loss to imagine what would qualify as such. This, "customizable" watch, looks like some fifteen dollar tops, piece of crap costume jewelry. I wonder how many people who actually own a Rolex are going to trade it in one? Dude, they even have a "Mickey Mouse" face for it.
So, put a 4th line in your pedantic, amateur, sociological pretense essay to read, 4: "people who buy Apple products because they think it makes them look cool", or admit you're trolling (back).
In any event, my son is a pretentious Apple consumer. He takes after his mother, all form, and no substance. He's just like his mother, and that's why I got rid of her.
And just for the record, I gave the kid a Windows computer, and his darling yuppie wife, had it infected within a month, downloading email attachments from "Facebook".
So, you don't have to tell me what customers fit Apple's ideal customer, money grabbing and mind set profile, I have a family full of them.
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Are you serious! I hope not, if you go back and look at the Samsung Gear 2 they copied them. If you want to fight it more I feel they just took their Nano and slap some wrist straps on it and called it the new IWatch and people think it is amazing.
Why is Apple getting all the hype when the Moto 360 is the best looking watch on the market now so we should compare any new smart watches to them.
Rippleman
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look at these forums, look at all the cool kids that have them.So in that Galaxy S2 commercial (from years ago) where the guy says 'I could never get a Samsung, I'm creative...' You don't get that joke? Wait... are you a barista?
I don't understand how using Android makes you look cool. The only way anyone would know you're using an Android is because it's NOT an iPhone. I stay on top of the phone market and I can't tell the difference between an LG and a Nexus 5 and a Droid and a Moto X from a distance. HTC and Samsung are a little easier to recognize, but most others' aren't. Android phones also get pretty cheap, all Apple phones are nice phones. They've never made a real effort at the low end of the market.
If people were buying phones to look cool with Android, you'd see cases with the little robot on the back. The only phone I know of with a big visible logo is Apple. Android also doesn't put 'Sent from my Android device' on their emails.
Rippleman
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you are just cranky that some people don't like what you like. Not everyone has to follow what you think is cool. sorry.
captaincranky
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Wow, you figured out that from my screen name all by yourself? Now that's cool.
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Didn't Kirk wear one of these in Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
captaincranky
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Well, William Shattner is nothing, if not self involved and trendy. You know, a girl on every planet and such..
So yeah, most likely so.(Although I do believe Shattner has mellowed quite a bit in his old age).
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