Apple iWatch 2.0
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Apologies if someone has already had a rant about Apple smart watches and the new 2.0 version, but....
A chap at work was proudly sporting his new iWatch 2.0, or whatever it’s called, yesterday, and whilst agreeing with him how sleek and multi-functional and brilliant it is, what I was really thinking was it looked very silly on a middle aged man. As the great Douglas Adams once said, we appear to be a race that still thinks it’s cool to have a watch that needs two hands to operate.
I'm biased of course. I dislike Apple intensely due to the thousands I've had to spend on their rubbish products for my wife and kids over the years, but also because their business ethic appears to be, ‘we only sell one or two things so let’s keep selling the same thing to the same people every couple of years, at twice the price anyone else does, whilst paying as little tax as humanly possible and giving sweet fa to any charity or to anyone other than our few, extremely rich shareholders.
They do this by suckering you in based on how uber cool and technologically advanced the thing is. Then after a couple of years it stops doing something it always used to and the updated OS to make the thing work again won’t install as you need the new model. It’s engineered that way solely to make you buy a new item. My kids are teenages, but they’re already on their second or third iPhones because of this, and it’s exactly the same with their iPads.
Anyway, my thoughts on the iWatch 2.0 POS.
A chap at work was proudly sporting his new iWatch 2.0, or whatever it’s called, yesterday, and whilst agreeing with him how sleek and multi-functional and brilliant it is, what I was really thinking was it looked very silly on a middle aged man. As the great Douglas Adams once said, we appear to be a race that still thinks it’s cool to have a watch that needs two hands to operate.
I'm biased of course. I dislike Apple intensely due to the thousands I've had to spend on their rubbish products for my wife and kids over the years, but also because their business ethic appears to be, ‘we only sell one or two things so let’s keep selling the same thing to the same people every couple of years, at twice the price anyone else does, whilst paying as little tax as humanly possible and giving sweet fa to any charity or to anyone other than our few, extremely rich shareholders.
They do this by suckering you in based on how uber cool and technologically advanced the thing is. Then after a couple of years it stops doing something it always used to and the updated OS to make the thing work again won’t install as you need the new model. It’s engineered that way solely to make you buy a new item. My kids are teenages, but they’re already on their second or third iPhones because of this, and it’s exactly the same with their iPads.
Anyway, my thoughts on the iWatch 2.0 POS.
You're all right - it was a rant at Apple, provoked by my kids schools, which now require the children to have the latest model iPads for interactive learning and homework assignments. No choice in the matter, just, 'we've done a deal with apple and the iPad will be pre-loaded with all the required software and delivered at a reduction of £50 on the standard RRP'.
However, main faults with the iWatch in my opinion are: looks silly, have to press a button to tell the time, has to be plugged in, will only last a few years. Compare that with an automatic watch which; looks good, tells you the time by just glancing at it, never needs to be plugged in, lasts for donkeys years.
However, main faults with the iWatch in my opinion are: looks silly, have to press a button to tell the time, has to be plugged in, will only last a few years. Compare that with an automatic watch which; looks good, tells you the time by just glancing at it, never needs to be plugged in, lasts for donkeys years.
38911 said:
The only person who looks daft on this thread, is the OP for being gullible enough to spend thousands with a company he doesn't like.
I don't like Bose - in fact I feel as strongly about Bose as the OP does about Apple - I think they sell overpriced, inferior crap.... the difference is I have spent a big fat £0 on Bose products and don't feel the need to start threads berating those that do buy Bose products.
I can see this thread isn't going well for me, but as someone with a scattering of 301s and 191s I feel obliged to note that Bose can make surprisingly good speakers. I don't like Bose - in fact I feel as strongly about Bose as the OP does about Apple - I think they sell overpriced, inferior crap.... the difference is I have spent a big fat £0 on Bose products and don't feel the need to start threads berating those that do buy Bose products.
Back to the iWatch, although noted that's not its real name. Looks are subjective, so I withdraw the 'looks silly' comment. Since you put it on a magic disk that charges it by voodoo I also withdraw the 'have to plug it in' comment. And unfortunately as it knows when you're looking at it and then springs to life to tell you how many emails you haven't bothered opening, your heart palpitation rate, or possibly even the time, I'm going to have to withdraw the 'two hands to operate' comment. I would say I bet it's not cheap, but that's quite subjective on a watch forum.
So all I'm left with is to say it is, in my humble opinion, as desirable as a beard.
Emonda03 said:
Snappy good humoured retort Lorne, you will be buying one next!...like the beard you can always take it off if you don't like it
Got one of these, for test purposes only of course:
Bit tight on the wrist (it was a free-bee with a pair of trainers my son bought), requires 2 hands to tell the time, and looks amazingly silly
TimLambert7 said:
This thread has turned many corners in 3 pages.
Lorne vs Apple
Lorne vs Everyone
Lorne vs Beards
And now, somehow, it's a discussion about heart-rate monitors.
Hi Tim, Lorne vs Apple
Lorne vs Everyone
Lorne vs Beards
And now, somehow, it's a discussion about heart-rate monitors.
I was going to make a comment about the sort of person that straps a heart monitor to their chest to see if it's still beating when running; just as friendly dig of course. No doubt the same sort of person that thinks a beard is cool and shows their individuality.
Unfortunately though it appears the apple iwatch accomplishes that particular trick through vodoo magic.
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