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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by ballenf on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:02AM (#15541559)
I travel to a good number of middle America small towns and consistently see small business / middle manager upper middle class men wearing them. No women, fwiw.

The people wearing them aren't techie types at all which is why I'd guess the sentiment in tech circles is so negative on the watch's success. I think we're used to seeing our colleagues being the earlier adopters of gadgets like these, but the Apple watch early adopters include a diverse set of non-tech people.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by zimpenfish on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:09AM (#15541614)
> The people wearing them aren't techie types at all

Most of the Apple-using techie types I'm friends with have a Watch.

Although as a counterpoint, at $WORK, most of the techie types don't (but also don't use other Apple stuff.)

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by ballenf on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:59AM (#15542047)
I shouldn't have implied adoption is necessarily low in tech circles. What I meant is that I've seen a surprising adoption by non-tech people, making the proportion of the adoption out of the ordinary and harder to jduge using past experience with tech devices.
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