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[chrisgixer]

For the crApple watch campaign.


http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Get-Ready---Its-About-to-Be-Apple-Watch-All-the-Time-81793.html


There will be NO escape. I think I hate it already. 

[Kevin Wood]

That's not a sector in which they should be playing with their overpriced goods. Too much competition on that count already.

[chrisgixer]

That's not a sector in which they should be playing with their overpriced goods. Too much competition on that count already.

Well this is it. If when it flops, they'll just throw more money at advertising. Not even buying one will make it stop. 

[Mr Skrunts]

have never been an crApple fan, but after watching a documentry the other week on the way they treat and pay thier workers then it has put me off them even more.

[chrisgixer]

have never been an crApple fan, but after watching a documentry the other week on the way they treat and pay thier workers then it has put me off them even more.

That would be the Foxconn contractor presumably ?

[Mr.OmegaMan]

£13,500 the most expensive version 

No doubt it'll sell well people with more money than sense, Wonder if they will release a new one every year, Shouldn't be a problem for people with that kinda cash to waste anyway

[chrisgixer]

How muuuuuch

Just watching the gay video if the gay special event


(I'll just leave that door open and see who walks in )

[Kevin Wood]

Mmmm. 'Cos I'd spend £13K on a watch that will work for a year or two until some future irreversible iOS update causes it to grind to a halt, or it needs a new battery and they aren't replaceable.

Let's face it, you could spend 10% of that on a very nice proper clockwork job that would work, with an occasional service, until the end of time, or about 0.01% on a cheap digital one that will keep better time than either with the added bonus that it won't make you look like a "merchant banker".

Oh! But wait! Then I'd have to reach all the way into my pocket to answer my phone? Ahh. all becomes clear.

[zirk]

Mmmm. 'Cos I'd spend £13K on a watch that will work for a year or two until some future irreversible iOS update causes it to grind to a halt, or it needs a new battery and they aren't replaceable.

Let's face it, you could spend 10% of that on a very nice proper clockwork job that would work, with an occasional service, until the end of time, or about 0.01% on a cheap digital one that will keep better time than either with the added bonus that it won't make you look like a "merchant banker".

Oh! But wait! Then I'd have to reach all the way into my pocket to answer my phone? Ahh. all becomes clear.

You can make phone calls on these Crapple Devices, thats a new feature, bonus. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Bang on. I've got in my box of watches at home a vintage Omega Geneve (I like Omegas  ) which cost £50, keeps time to within Certified Chronometer standards, dated 1973, and gets more comments and inquiries from people than any lump of plastic from Argos or whatever. I've got an Ingersoll from the 70s, which is the same, loads of people comment, and cost a princely quid.

I'd love to see exactly where these will be in 30 years time. No doubt mint boxed ones will fetch a nice price (fairly unlikely they'll go for more than they cost new, though) just like the LED watched of the 70s, they're worth good money now, a new leap in technology etc.. but not worth the couple of week's average wage they cost in the first place.

Also I hate Apple, or the 'oneupmanship' 'keepingupwiththejoneses' that they encourage. I own one Apple product, it's a 2nd gen shuffle, I got it free with a mobile phone, and is so small and inoffensive no-one knows I've got an Apple product, nothing showy, not any of the 'I've got more money that you' about it. 

[Nick W]

You can make phone calls on these Crapple Devices, thats a new feature, bonus. 

Aren't they an addition to your existing phone, rather than a stand-alone device? All of the smaridiotches I've seen are like that, and a respectable android one is available for about 40quid. But that's the Apple/android thing in  a nutshell.


Personally I'll stick with my mechanical watches, even though I know that they are mainly jewellery. And like DBG, I like Omegas; my early sixties Seamaster was regulated by someone who knew what he was doing as it's accurate to about a minute a week.

[Marks DTM Calib]

So a Crapple watch.....I hope its not as fragile as the Crapple phones......and it needs a Crapple phone to work fully....

[Diamond Black Geezer]

You can make phone calls on these Crapple Devices, thats a new feature, bonus. 

Aren't they an addition to your existing phone, rather than a stand-alone device? All of the smaridiotches I've seen are like that, and a respectable android one is available for about 40quid. But that's the Apple/android thing in  a nutshell.


Personally I'll stick with my mechanical watches, even though I know that they are mainly jewellery. And like DBG, I like Omegas; my early sixties Seamaster was regulated by someone who knew what he was doing as it's accurate to about a minute a week.

 

Good man! Must put up some pics of my watches some time 

[Kevin Wood]

You can make phone calls on these Crapple Devices, thats a new feature, bonus. 

Aren't they an addition to your existing phone, rather than a stand-alone device? All of the smaridiotches I've seen are like that, and a respectable android one is available for about 40quid. But that's the Apple/android thing in  a nutshell.


Personally I'll stick with my mechanical watches, even though I know that they are mainly jewellery. And like DBG, I like Omegas; my early sixties Seamaster was regulated by someone who knew what he was doing as it's accurate to about a minute a week.

Yep. If you don't have a crApple phone they just tell the time. WTF is the point in a watch that just tells.., etc.

I found myself lusting over a vintage Seamaster in a shop window the other week. I suspect I'll crack eventually.

The thing is, whilst mechanical watch movements have been totally outclassed by a microchip under a blob of epoxy, you can still appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making it, and the fact that it works at all, let alone well, given how crude it is by modern standards. Same with a valve amplifier or music from a tiny rock being dragged along a groove in a bit of plastic. It'd be a shame if examples of these things disappeared for good IMHO.

A touch screen, a SOC and a battery in a design cobbled together by a US corporate which dropped off a production line in China run by sub-minimum wage slave labour, on the other hand?

[LC0112G]

Wish I'd kept my first watch. It did everything needed.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-VINTAGE-TIMEX-MICKEY-MOUSE-WIND-UP-WATCH-WORKS-/321678534610?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae588e7d2