Rant: Apple Watch

[Freed Roger]

at work I never wear a watch because I have time staring me in the face constantly on my PC, phone etc.

I only wear a watch for outdoors mainly due to the GPS - running hiking or camping. I may take one when I travel and have to catch planes.

Which all kind of goes contra to the typical old use of watches -where you would/could lose the watch for recreation and was a necessary for work/business.

[haltz]

I can justify spending $500 on a good looking watch. I can't justify spending $500 on a miniature iPhone, plus an additional $500 for a band to hold it on my arm, while in the end having something that doesn't look overly good--kinda dorky, in fact.

The convenience was intriguing. $1000 can buy me a lot more than that convenience though.

I'm sure aftermarket bands are right around the corner.

[Jocephus]

why not the apple watch but the hipster fashion sense of a twine band?

[pioneer98]

I have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...all that crap, and in a couple I have multiple accounts due to things I'm involved in. I have all push notifications on my phone turned off on all my accounts. My phone never buzzes unless it is a phone call or a text message. Then I just go into each one periodically and get my notifications when I feel like it. I do it about once a day with the active accounts, maybe every few days with the less active ones. It's only ever been a problem 1 time, when someone invited me to some event on Facebook that I missed.

I can't fathom a reason to wear one of these watches. I got rid of my old watch once I started carrying around a phone. I hated wearing a watch.

[jim]

A watch is about the only piece of jewelry that I wear. I wear my watch because I like looking at it, I'm certainly aware that I can get the time in other ways but I like watches. I even have a pocket watch that I have to wind - 2 actually but one doesn't work very well because it's about 100 years old. I never wear them, but I like winding them and looking and hearing them tick.

[Jocephus]

a watch throws me off balance

[ghostrunner]

I can't wait to see a room full of people looking at their wrists. It'll be like everyone suddenly became very interested in what time it was, and then froze in place.

[Freed Roger]

A watch is about the only piece of jewelry that I wear. .

I pictured you with a mess of gold chains and your shell necklace from Cancun on your neck, not to mention the pinky rings.

[jim]

A watch is about the only piece of jewelry that I wear. .

I pictured you with a mess of gold chains and your shell necklace from Cancun on your neck, not to mention the pinky rings.

Hah. I have a $15 wedding silver ring I bought at an arts and crafts show. I lost my first one because it was too big and bulky and I kept taking it off. Another one I got was in my car one summer day and it melted - really cheap 10k deal. I like the $20 rings because they are light and I can buy another if I lose it.

[Famous Mortimer]

lots of people spend way more than $1000 on watches that do a lot less

True, but the crazy expensive watches tend to hold their value remarkably well, as long as they're looked after. The iWatch will, like all other Apple merch, be essentially worthless in a few years.