Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It...
by rickyc091 on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @08:43PM
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With the apple watch coming into the market. It'll be very interesting to see what schools do... Currently iPods / cellphones are ban in most schools. If it's seen, kids are typically given a warning. If they repeatedly fail to follow procedures, the device gets taken away. Watches will become a lot harder to regulate.
Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It...
by zwily on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:25PM
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> If they're gonna buy it it won't be on the merits of its watch functionality.
It annoyed me how much they touted how incredibly precise it is. As if 50ms matters on a wristwatch.
If they're gonna buy it it won't be on the merits of its watch functionality. So it's not about being a watch, in the same way (or actually far more so) than a smartphone is not about the phonecalls.
It's a machine you wear on your wrist that also happens to tell time.
Mind you, what the "younger crowd" wants is not really that predictable in the sense of "why would they buy a watch".
If it becomes a kind of fashion statement, they'd buy it, the same way hipsters now buy vests and hats (the kind of which people haven't really wore since 50 years or so), huge headphones (something that was a tiny market a decade or so ago, despite everything being available), etc.