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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by StudentStuff on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:56PM (#16998718)
Thing is the Apple Watch is viewed as a status symbol primarily, despite Apple's marketing and messaging stating its a health monitoring/heads up display type device. Many of the people who buy it have no idea that it'll catch some potentially imminently fatal health conditions: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5683089/Apple-Watc...

Its impressive how many people buy the Apple Watch without understanding what it offers.

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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by tsunamifury on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:33PM (#16999782)
I'd hardly call a 200 dollar watch a status symbol by any stretch of the imagination
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by qz3 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:39AM (#17000510)
I think it depends on the income. But, considering many people buy regular watches costing 20 times more, I wouldn't see an Apple watch as a status symbol either.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by ajkjk on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:56AM (#17000712)
It sends a message, which my brain's social apparatus parses as a status-symbol brag (and finds very distasteful).
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by King-Aaron on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:51AM (#17010808)
For a great many people, a $200 watch is a luxury.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by jnaina on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:45AM (#17000528)
Apple Watch Alerts New York Man of Health Crisis, Ends Up Saving His Life

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Smart-Watch-Saves-New-...

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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by perl4ever on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:49PM (#17004895)
It's possible that the watch gave him "permission" to go to the hospital, but it would seem as if gushing blood ought to suffice. I don't know what it means if it doesn't.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by distances on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#17000977)
Sounds like he would've gone to the hospital anyway with those symptoms.
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