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Such delusion. The personal computer was important; a well designed mp3 player was desired by many; the tablet, a new way to interface; the smart phone, a communication necessity. The watch is just a toy without a core reason for existence. Not just apple's, all smart watches. It's ironic that a company who made its business selling fashionable tech will peak and fall from relevancy selling a purely fashionable device. You can monitor your glucose level with a sub-$20 device from a pharmacy, not several hundred dollars and a iphone requirement.

It's okay. You're not an innovator. You're not a visionary. You can't see the horizon. You're probably fascinated by shiny objects; trapped in the superficial glaze, unable to comprehend the substrate.

2/3 of Americans are considered to be overweight/obese. And before you say, 'that's even more of reason to own one,' no matter how sleek the advertising campaign to peddle a broadly useless piece of technojunk, you're never going to convince the populous that exercising is fun. Unless it detects cancer, it's just a toy.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

Just like everywhere else on the internet, there's no shortage of Apple apologists defending the fall of the consumerist junk paradigm.

Do you have a reference? I didn't hear about this

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti