Apple Watch

[Aaron]

[The Comrade]

the older the parts, the more difficult it is to get software to work well with it. it only works consistently with proprietary apple software.
source: i own apple products/am among those who do

so, again, it's really not that innovative or praise worthy that they're finally upgrading iphones to tech that is already a year old. sure it's successful. you know what other titans of tech have business models like that? DELL.

[fstarcstar]

Apples stock was up almost 4% after the watch reveal, but then the second they announced it would only work with an iphone it lost all of its gains and had a .37 cent loss for the day.

[Spider]

Thing is that I don't care about their business model, nor their sales, or their market cap. I just care about the products. When apple makes a product I like at a similar price point to directly competing products, such as the MBA I'm typing this on, I'll cheerfully buy it. But on its own merits, not as an exercise in cheerleading for some megacorp. The only company I cheer is SpaceX.

That they sell a million units doesn't legitimize the product. Only the marketing team.

[John Galt]

as you all know i'm a big capitalist but what i don't like about apple is that they are, as a mindset and a company, a cartoon of the ills and excesses of capitalism

for example they'll talk about how they have a Retina Display and talk about how amazing it is.... when it was released it had lower PPI than competing android devices. now they roll out ApplePay, the same thing i've had for years on android, and it's like it's MAGIC. they whip up their drones into a buying frenzy. they are built around how cool and awesome their products are because they told you they are cool and awesome. they literally cannot just release something so other people try it first, they have to have a giant production about it. this is so that they get people buying their overpriced crap. they charge exorbitant prices for taking other people's innovations and presenting them in a different format. apple is abercrombie and fitch, and that's all it ever will be.

[phosphide]

You guys really want something to hate on? Here are my next two choices (tentatively - will need to really test them out):


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[Aaron]

[Aaron]

[The Comrade]

consumers

[Aaron]

So non-apple apps don't work as well on iPhones as they do on android?