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Apple Watch

Liver said:
In three sentences you used "shit", "garbage" and "fuck" in reference to the product. I say my statement on certain people lacking vision is appropriate. EDIT. In two sentences.

No need to prove your visionary status. I'm sure you have vision, just not with this product.
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This ITERATION of the product, sure.
 
Valnar said:
People are used to short battery life with a phone, but not with a watch. I don't think people will put up with having to recharge a watch every night when the defacto standard is years. In fact, I believe that battery life (or long mechanical life) is the primary reason why watches haven't gone away other than for jewelry.
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I'll never own ones I'm a strictly mechanical guy but I don't think battery matters I take my watch off every night anyway
 
I don't get the point of this or any other smartwatch. As far as I can tell, many are intended to be paired with a smartphone, in which case, really, what is the point? Isn't it redundant? I wear a watch that I've had for nine years partly because I like it and partly because I don't have a smartphone, so it's more convenient (and doesn't make me look bad :eek:) to glance at my wrist than to take out my $10 flip phone.
 
BiH115 said:
Of course.
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Of course what? I don't understand. Is it a hipster phrase? Are you upset that I said you lacked vision?

I love my automatic watches. Yes, they are a type of jewelry and I'm okay with that definition. As far as telling time, I'll admit they are not as accurate as non automatics.

This apple watch will get more and more useful. Even if one of its uses is to spur better competition. I currently have a 5s and I don't see upgrading to the 6 or 6+. I do see upgrading my 5s eventually.

Edit. I'm out.
 
evilsofa said:
You would have to add two zeros to that price for that reaction to be legit. Walk into a Costco and you get to look at $6000 and $8000 watches. I have no idea what's up with those.
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Purchase a Breitling Navitimer or an Omega Planet Ocean and you will know whats up.
 
Liver said:
Of course what? I don't understand. Is it a hipster phrase? Are you upset that I said you lacked vision?

I love my automatic watches. Yes, they are a type of jewelry and I'm okay with that definition. As far as telling time, I'll admit they are not as accurate as non automatics.

This apple watch will get more and more useful. Even if one of its uses is to spur better competition. I currently have a 5s and I don't see upgrading to the 6 or 6+. I do see upgrading my 5s eventually.

Edit. I'm out.
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I probably didn't need to get verbally abusive at the product, and you probably didn't need to poke at anyone's of vision.

That being said, I'm sure it'll get more useful (well, we can hope), but as of right now, there's absolutely no point in running out and getting one, unless you've got the cash to burn and want something different other than a regular watch. I can't see any digital watch replacing my Suunto for working out, or my Omega for every day wear. When that day happens, I'll welcome it. For right now? I'd rather not.
 
I like my ipad and iphone but that watch is ugly. I hate wearing watches and would only consider moving to one if it completely replaced the need for a phone. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I could see using one at a gym if it could monitor my workout and play music to a bluetooth headset but I wouldn't want to wear it everyday. I always hated having a watch bang against my desk and keyboard.
 
I don't like wearing watches because they make my wrist hot and sweaty. Not to mention the band digging in when typing all day.
 
If you guys hate the Apple Watch, that's fine, but the excuses I'm hearing about not wearing watches in general are laughable.

The only thing I hate about wearing a watch is when I'm crossing the turnstiles in the NYC subway and accidentally knock my watch face against the metal bar. My Timex still lives without a scratch, but I wonder what would happen to an Apple Watch, even with that magical sapphire glass.
 
Megalith said:
My Timex still lives without a scratch, but I wonder what would happen to an Apple Watch, even with that magical sapphire glass.
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My ~20 year old Seiko Chronograph (100?) has a Sapphlex crystal, and it's never been scratched.
 
The real threat of the Apple Watch isn't to the high-end watches that cost a few grand or more; it's to the ones in the three-digit range that are in trouble. They're not timeless heirlooms, and it's much easier to justify replacing them with something techy that still looks reasonably nice.

Plus, there's a generation of younger adults that either hasn't owned an expensive watch yet or doesn't put much value in them. If they get started with smartwatches, they're probably not going to buy some $3,000 Breitling or Tag Heuer, whether it's due to a perceived lack of functionality or just out of custom.
 
The hypocrisy is certainly going to be amusing.

Most people claim they see no point in wearing a watch because they have their phones, yet I would bet that most of these would buy the Apple Watch---which needs to be paired with an iPhone to be fully functional.
 
Megalith said:
The hypocrisy is certainly going to be amusing.

Most people claim they see no point in wearing a watch because they have their phones, yet I would bet that most of these would buy the Apple Watch---which needs to be paired with an iPhone to be fully functional.
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I'm not sure that's so much hypocrisy so much as the fact that a regular watch does nothing other than tell you the time, and perhaps the date. My Moto X will do both of those without me even having to touch the screen or any buttons. At least the Apple Watch comes preloaded with some apps my phone doesn't, but Apple didn't demonstrate it doing anything my phone and Fitbit aren't capable of doing.
 
Do all models on the Apple watch require an iPhone? I thought they said something about only the base model needing a phone to be tethered? Since it's not launching until 2015, perhaps they're still working out those details?
 
And you have to charge it every. single. day. just like every other watch out there. Oh wait.... ;)
 
QwertyJuan said:
And you have to charge it every. single. day. just like every other watch out there. Oh wait.... ;)
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I think that's the biggest caveat with all this wearable tech. Charging your phone daily is already sort of a PITA. Having to deal with constantly charging watches, glasses and whatever comes out next is just inconvenient.

Even wireless charging, while a bit less of a headache, will get old after a while. It'd be nice if these gadgets could, at least partially, recharge themselves with solar and/or kinetic energy.
 
dr.stevil said:
I think that's the biggest caveat with all this wearable tech. Charging your phone daily is already sort of a PITA. Having to deal with constantly charging watches, glasses and whatever comes out next is just inconvenient.

Even wireless charging, while a bit less of a headache, will get old after a while. It'd be nice if these gadgets could, at least partially, recharge themselves with solar and/or kinetic energy.
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I know a lot of the high end watches(no idea anything about the lower end ones) will "charge" themselves. AKA self-winding watch. My dad had a Longines he bought in the late '60s. It just recently died. Went for 40 years. Never had to be "charged". :)
 
QwertyJuan said:
I know a lot of the high end watches(no idea anything about the lower end ones) will "charge" themselves. AKA self-winding watch. My dad had a Longines he bought in the late '60s. It just recently died. Went for 40 years. Never had to be "charged". :)
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I think the biggest problem with the watches is that as they get expensive they become serious personal choices. I think they're okay as long as they stay under 500$ but the minute you can buy a saphire faced self windind mechanical for the same price (never seen one under 500) i think the latter wins... my everyday is currently a luminox self winding with tritium hands that glow for 25 years. I wouldn't trade it in for an electric watch period.
 
Romale23 said:
I think the biggest problem with the watches is that as they get expensive they become serious personal choices. I think they're okay as long as they stay under 500$ but the minute you can buy a saphire faced self windind mechanical for the same price (never seen one under 500) i think the latter wins... my everyday is currently a luminox self winding with tritium hands that glow for 25 years. I wouldn't trade it in for an electric watch period.
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LOL, my dad's Longines was $350 back in 1969. :)
 
Romale23 said:
I think the biggest problem with the watches is that as they get expensive they become serious personal choices. I think they're okay as long as they stay under 500$ but the minute you can buy a saphire faced self windind mechanical for the same price (never seen one under 500) i think the latter wins... my everyday is currently a luminox self winding with tritium hands that glow for 25 years. I wouldn't trade it in for an electric watch period.
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Very true.

If they started to cost that much money, and a new model was coming out every year (or multiple times a year), it would take away a lot of incentive to buy one
 
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