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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by eloisant on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:38AM (#8301335)
Additionally, he says he's worried because the watch is not "the absolute best one you can buy".

Well, I don't think people buying 30,000 euros watches are such a big market that Apple should worry about missing them.

That includes former French President Sarkozy (he wears the same Patek Philippe watch), not really the "man with an okay job who lives in a nice apartment in some metropolitan town".

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by jacquesm on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:45AM (#8301349)
Really high end watches are a signalling device, not a practical device. It tries to convey the size of the bankroll of the wearer to others rather than that there is any additional performance somehow related to the price.

A $50 watch keeps time just about as good as a $10K watch.

And you might even get to keep the former when you're being held up on the way to your Ferrari.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by Aloha on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:56AM (#8301379)
Sometimes the 50 dollar watch performs better than the 10k one - Rolexes keep lousy time. I personally am quite the fan of the Seiko 5, it works, keeps time (when I remember to set it after not wearing it for four days), and at the least it will act as a decent chronometer even if I've not set it, I can tell how much time has elapsed by looking at it twice.

I don't know if I have a use case for the apple watch, I might buy one to try out, see if it works, but I will say -if nothing else, its uniformly a pretty object d'art.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by jacquesm on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:03AM (#8301702)
It's a digital accessory priced-to-own.

Auto playing link, don't click if your audio is loud:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101619289

Fairly incredible, expensive watches for rent.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by JonnieCache on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:17AM (#8302682)
>priced-to-own

What does this phrase mean? Search engines are giving me nothing.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by shiftpgdn on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:43AM (#8302845)
Affordable for the common man.
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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by easytiger on Thursday September 11, 2014 @05:09AM (#8301579)
People complaining about the application of a watch for telling time and the accuracy are so disingenuous.

Go an tell that to someone wearing a diamond ring. That doesn't tell the time either.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by jacquesm on Thursday September 11, 2014 @05:16AM (#8301596)
You are underestimating the utility value of a diamond ring. According to many action movies they serve as excellent glasscutters.
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