Apple Watch
Posted by: Peter Dinh on 10 March 2015
Would you buy one? I would.
I think it is going to be a [great] success as it defines a new age communication device - connecting to bluetooth and through voice recognition software one can dial a number from wrist watch, messaging, precise time keeping, and so on.
No
What do you do, hold the watch to your ear?
I do like the idea of accurate time keeping. That has never been done before.
Best inventions in history are quickly dismissed as lunacy. 
Nope. Too bloated for my boney-girl-wrist. Battery life too short. all functions and more are in my pocket anyway.
I think I'd rather have this on my wrist...
I like my watches, i like Apple. Can't see the point of this though.
No way for me either. It's interesting that in this day and age fewer and fewer people, especially under thirty, are wearing watches and along comes Apple with this contraption. Maybe it will stimulate the watch market generally, or backfire on them.
Battery will need re-charging most every night and the watch will be superseded by "i-watch 2" next year.
The Rugby clock in the kitchen keeps good time and I check my watch every morning against the BBC 08:00 Pips so can be pretty sure of the time to within a second or two 24/7
Ach, who knows....
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
"Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
"Apple is already dead."
Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997
"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004
Oh and will I buy one? Don't know but probably not right now.
No intention of buying one. After all : I have 2 quartz watches already. Poor battery life. Screen too small for anything useful. Just a gimmick for those with more money than sense IMO
A useless toy to me.
I suspect it will be a huge success.
Bruce
George Orwell 1984 anyone? Thank you but no thanks.
That issue aside, how dumb do Apple think consumers are? Cook: "You can even receive calls with your watch.... something I wanted to do since I was five years old! Finally you can, how cool."
But only, if you have your iPhone with you. Doh!
While the iPhone was a new and revolutionary concept, enabling its owner to do so many more things other than making simple voice calls and thereby redefining the phone as well as the way people communicate, the Apple Watch seems like the exact opposite. A dumbed down version of your iPhone and a complete invasion of our personal lives and yes privacy. A device to be worn 24/7 pushing calls, messages and requests down our throats, expecting us to act upon them immediately.
What's more Apple's pricing is just outrageous for a gadget that will be out of date every other 6-12 months? EUR18,000 for their top of the line edition? Not something you will pass on to your children or grandchildren, unlike any classical watch of real quality. They'll have no use for it in ten or twenty years time. Quite the opposite, they wouldn't know what to do with this silly item then because it will be so out of date.
No, the Apple Watch is not cool, it is an insult to anyone with half a brain. Maybe that's why Cook alluded to his childhood dreams. It's easy to fool little kids and get them excited.
I hope Apple fail miserably in pushing this gadget in the consumers face. Although I fear there are enough five year old grown ups for them to succeed in the long run.
Quite sad really, if you think about it.
George Orwell 1984 anyone? Thank you but no thanks.
That issue aside, how dumb do Apple think consumers are? Cook: "You can even receive calls with your watch.... something I wanted to do since I was five years old! Finally you can, how cool."
But only, if you have your iPhone with you. Doh!
While the iPhone was a new and revolutionary concept, enabling its owner to do so many more things other than making simple voice calls and thereby redefining the phone as well as the way people communicate, the Apple Watch seems like the exact opposite. A dumbed down version of your iPhone and a complete invasion of our personal lives and yes privacy. A device to be worn 24/7 pushing calls, messages and requests down our throats, expecting us to act upon them immediately.
What's more Apple's pricing is just outrageous for a gadget that will be out of date every other 6-12 months? EUR18,000 for their top of the line edition? Not something you will pass on to your children or grandchildren, unlike any classical watch of real quality. They'll have no use for it in ten or twenty years time. Quite the opposite, they wouldn't know what to do with this silly item then because it will be so out of date.
No, the Apple Watch is not cool, it is an insult to anyone with half a brain. Maybe that's why Cook alluded to his childhood dreams. It's easy to fool little kids and get them excited.
I hope Apple fail miserably in pushing this gadget in the consumers face. Although I fear there are enough five year old grown ups for them to succeed in the long run.
Quite sad really, if you think about it.
I can't find much to disagree with, TP. I like your point regarding the "always-on" nature of this idea. Not for me, thanks.
Nice thoughts, guys!
It would be very interesting to come back here in 6 months time and see how far wrong we are.
The BayWatch?
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It lets you customise the watch face to present time in a more meaningful, personal context. WTF? What's wrong with 'it's half past eight'? Another wonderful feature is that you can now communicate in more personal ways, such as sending a heartbeat. What would be really useful is if it would spit in the face of canvassers for UKIP.
Nice thoughts, guys!
It would be very interesting to come back here in 6 months time and see how far wrong we are.
No one thought anyone would buy a music player for $500 (aka iPod) when MP3 players could be had for <$49. I'm just sayin'
What would be really useful is if it would spit in the face of canvassers for UKIP.
I'm not sure what UKIP is, but I like the application.
It's a racist political party that somehow seems to appeal to large numbers of UK voters.
No, the Apple Watch is not cool, it is an insult to anyone with half a brain. Maybe that's why Cook alluded to his childhood dreams. It's easy to fool little kids and get them excited.
I hope Apple fail miserably in pushing this gadget in the consumers face. Although I fear there are enough five year old grown ups for them to succeed in the long run.
People will have different interests, priorities and spending power. Most people would consider spending four or five figures on a hifi trivial and unnecessary.
We had a chat I the office about this today. Several people who have been wearing fitness trackers for a couple of years are planning to buy an Apple Watch as replacement, because it can do a few more things.
A couple people are motivated to change because they fell more comfortable with Apple having access to this highly personal information, than their current provider.
Both motivations seem perfectly reasonable reason to me.
IF it could operate on its own WITHOUT the phone then yes...
I am an apple fan… but its just not enough of a technical leap for me...
when will apple start to wow me again? wish this watch did not need the phone to make calls… id get it to carry one less thing around...
Like everyone else above, I cannot really see the point myself. If the sports version had meant I could go running without the phone, I might just have been tempted (although not at the price), but otherwise wearing a beautiful watch is part of my day, and whatever else this is, it is not beautiful.
But Apple does have a habit of turning this initial apathy into condition-less desire rather quickly.
And the watch was/is the brainchild of Jony Ive, and he was responsible for much of the covetousness created under Steve Jobs' reign. So I shall reserve judgement. I never thought there was a use for ipad, either. But I just wrote all this on mine.
As an aside, a couple of weeks ago I got a tour around Venus, the yacht that Jobs designed (but never got to see), but in which Laurene and the family take a great deal of pleasure. As well they might. I had to sign a confidentaility agreement (!) which I will of course respect, and there were no photos, but it is as functionally beautiful on the inside as the exterior (easily google-able) suggests it might be, but perhaps doesn't quite superficially manage itself. Built by Feadship (without question the best motor yacht builder, with a queue and pricetags to match), as a boat it is very special.
No, the Apple Watch is not cool, it is an insult to anyone with half a brain. Maybe that's why Cook alluded to his childhood dreams. It's easy to fool little kids and get them excited.
I hope Apple fail miserably in pushing this gadget in the consumers face. Although I fear there are enough five year old grown ups for them to succeed in the long run.
People will have different interests, priorities and spending power. Most people would consider spending four or five figures on a hifi trivial and unnecessary.
We had a chat I the office about this today. Several people who have been wearing fitness trackers for a couple of years are planning to buy an Apple Watch as replacement, because it can do a few more things.
A couple people are motivated to change because they fell more comfortable with Apple having access to this highly personal information, than their current provider.
Both motivations seem perfectly reasonable reason to me.
If you use any smartphone… apple android windows blackberry… they are collecting and have all this same info on you anyway...
Where you go, for how long, what you search, etc etc...
We have already gone beyond creepy… all in the interest of learning predictive buying habits.