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- Ben992
the new Pebble Time looks better
- I'm not sure they're really that comparable, overallmonospaced
- yeah, the pebble came out before, uses e-ink and has a battery life of a week..GeorgesII
- you know what I mean, Georgesmonospaced
- no I don't :(GeorgesII
- Put an apple logo on it, and mono will love itpinkfloyd
- i may go with the Pebble Time. i'm thinking about it.Ben99
- that's not true, pinkfloyd, I don't "love" the Apple Watch and have made that quite clearmonospaced
- iwatch sapphire clearpinkfloyd
- iMonofadein11
- i quite like pebble. for me personally. i'd get pebble over apple.pango
- I thought a Pebble watch would be useful, until I discovered how limited it is. I wasn't using any of the other features on a daily basis and it wasn't fun.Jaline
- When did people ever look for a fun watch?pango
- I used my Pebble once.instrmntl
- pablo283
Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, "I Would Not Want To Be A Designer"
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3043…
- monospaced0
Turns out those speculations that the Watch sales tanked were backward (not surprising considering how junk the data was). June sales were the highest of the three months for the new product.
- def not paid by apple to post this,
where's the link so we can read it for ourselves, thanksGeorgesII - It was in the earnings release yesterday, derp. Spoken by Tim Cook.monospaced
- Also, me posting this does nothing for the company. It's me responding to the false claims the Watch sales were tanking.monospaced
- http://www.theverge.…monospaced
- def not paid by apple to post this,
- Ben990
after a few readings, seems like the Pebble Time is better with an Android phone. I'm on an iPhone, so fuck the Pebble Time. I'll stick to normal watches for a while; just bought a new one on Amazon.
- desmo0
Have yet to go into an Apple store to gawk at one. No interest at all.
- necromation1
Love mine... And has kinda given me my life back. All that time spent staring at my phone... I notice i spent less time doing it the other day. I look at my notices and then decide if it worth getting my phone out. And the small things... like when my girl sends me a pulse or a silly sketch. if feels more heartfelt, personal... One of my mate wife is partially deaf and sometimes misses his calls and says it's already made difference in they way they communicate.
- fadein112
Apple not releasing actual figures and grouping with other products... hmmm I smell a rat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/techno…- Good luck finding exact sales figures from any of their competitors either.monospaced
- they released figures for all other productsfadein11
- not all of them, and they often don't release figures for the new products, just like the competition (and for that reason)monospaced
- the product will continue but will be lacklustre... it doesn't supply a need and is a step backwards, phones do everything and dedicated fitness devices do thefadein11
- rest... still waiting for a killer product post jobs :)fadein11
- it does supply a need to some people (see previous post); also, Apple got lucky with a killer product or two, but it wasn't that often under Jobsmonospaced
- iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, Macbook Pro...hmmmfadein11
- if the Macbook Pro and the iMac were "killer," then so would the new Mac Pro and the Retina lines, no?monospaced
- the 1st iMac Was killer... macbook pro brought back the cool creative professional to the fold... the new products are just rehashes like everything post jobsfadein11
- Sorry my definition of same product with better components is not KILLER mofo... Have a good eve. Laterz (trying to be like Georges).fadein11
- I would argue that the iPad was just a bigger iPhone, and not really "killer." The Macbook Pro I struggle though, it's just a laptop.monospaced
- okay - how many creative professionals have you see on a non-macbook in the past decade... jeez. whatever - go and play with Georges - you bore me as well.fadein11
- I'm not saying it's not the preferred machine for creatives, not at all. Just that an upgraded laptop isn't really that innovative. No need to get rude :/monospaced
- Macs have always been the go-to brand of computers for creatives, long before Steve, and long after.monospaced
- they had a huge dip - I used macs early on in career and in past decade but there was a time in the middle when they were a bit shit. may be before your time.fadein11
- Please don't tell me the history of macs in the creative world, I'm older than you.fadein11
- anyway like I say bore off.fadein11
- Haha. I was there for all of it too. Probably the same age.monospaced
- I'm 64.fadein11
- Ok you win. That explains a lot.monospaced
- autoflavour2
played with one today in the berlin store today..
there was a few bits i liked, but overall, the idea of having a watch that i need to charge every fucking night, that will have a battery that will become more and more useless and wont be replaceable and it just saving me the 5 seconds to check the message/time .. just dont not push me anywhere near over the line .. especially when i considering having to wear a watch again after 10 years of no watch..it just seems like a product no one needs
- I agreeset
- yep - like I said earlier.fadein11
- not for me either, but I don't really field a ton of notifications anyway... I prefer to keep my closest friendships more analogmonospaced
- Totally agree auto. It's a product that solves a problem nobody had. It's not that hard to take your phone out of your pocket to use it, with a more optimizedmg33
- experience for the functionality added to the watch.mg33
- I find it useful at the office where every second of efficiency is a gain to me, don't want content pushed to me in my personal life no thank you!zarkonite
- utopian0
Apple Watch shell game weighs on Apple stock
Numbers Apple does share hint at disappointing debut.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story…- The debut was as good as the iPhone and iPad launches and the watch sold 3x more than all others combined in the last 2. That's not bad at all.monospaced
- if it's not that bad own up to it and release the numbers... and issue a statement that you expect growth in the wearables market. don't play coy with wall st.jonny_quest_lives
- @Mono: there's no proof of that. They hide the numbers inside of the "other" category and then make vague claims in the media after the call. That's their game.zarkonite
- You're right, there's no proof. Yet, Apple doesn't lie to investors about the revenue in that category. Why single out Apple for not giving out numbers?monospaced
- There's also no proof that the Watch sales are poor either, with all indications pointing to them selling near 3 million of them.monospaced
- Anyway, it's a product category I am not really into, but I do pay attention to analysts and pundits who write stuff like this.monospaced
- easy on the analysts kool aidpinkfloyd
- exactly... those analysts only seem to be right about 5% of the time, which is on par or worse than flat out blind guessingmonospaced
- lol, I was talking to youpinkfloyd
- even if you weren't, I'm agreeing with you :)monospaced
- utopian0
Apple Watch Burns Woman.
Apple Tells Her She's 'Wearing it Wrong'!
http://news.yahoo.com/apple-watc…
- utopian0
I finally ditched my Apple Watch — here's everything I'm going to miss about it.
- utopian0
Glimmers Emerge on Apple Watch Sales, and They’re Not Pretty
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015…
- utopian0
Apple Watch sales plunge 90%
http://www.marketwatch.com/story…
- utopian2
Apple Watch is a FLOP: Sales of the gadget have fallen by 90% since April.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/scien…- maybe go for a little walk ?spl33nidoru
- shorting the stock?formed
- Daily Mail Flopdetritus
- Because nearly all have been sold at launch?mekk
- utopian, iobsessedinteliboy
- why no reports that competitors sales fell 99% after apple watch came out?monospaced
- Or that Apple watch has sold many times more than all competitors combined over the last couple of years?monospaced
- And millions in China alone?monospaced
- ArmandoEstrada0
We do understand that the watch was ONLY available online until June, at which anyone can purchase at a store. Why would this graph be any different?
- Jaline0
Apple Watch sales are fine. With this update, they'll sell more. Rinse and repeat.
I think it could be useful for people who don't keep their phone in their pockets. I'd rather have a small, attached device notifying me of specific things than obsessively getting my phone out all the time to check what's going on. It has the potential to keep people focused on their work and less worried about their phone notifications. I realize there are arguments that the opposite is true (ex. more distractions at meetings), but nothing has been proven.
- iCanHazQBN1
who gives a crap. buy one. or not. debating charts of watch sales... stupid.
- it's apple. even if they made toasters people would scrutinise and analyse the shit out of them.inteliboy
- It's a pretty relevant question. Look at how many own the stock. The watch is supposed to be the "next thing", fairly important to a lot of people.formed
- its a big indicator of Apple's future - of course its important.fadein11
- To people maybe who don't know about apple. But Apple has been clear they aren't banking their future on it. To think they are is to misunderstand.monospaced
- Blame analysts and made up sales figures. Those are shit guesses at best and you know it.monospaced
- CygnusZero40
Finally got one. I like it a lot except for the notifications barely work. When someone texts me I rarely get notified of it on the watch. No haptic feedback, no noti on the watch at all unless I go into it manually.
My girl texted me something important 20 minutes ago. Watch didnt bother to let me know. Cool.
- Debating whether I should keep it or not. I like how it looks, the interface and everything but its very buggy...CygnusZero4
- With these noti's not working, with the watch not always turning on when I look at it. Annoying as fuck.CygnusZero4
- well if its a tool that doesnt solve problems lose it. if its fashion and used to pull ass or set social hierarchy keep itdeathboy
- text alerts don't even work? lol what a piece of shitpinkfloyd
- they do sometimes, but definitely not all the time. not reliable at all.CygnusZero4
- If it doesn't work how you want, get rid of it. You can't even pretend to be Dick Tracy with it - fuck *that* noise.face_melter
- Have you brought any of this up with Apple? Sounds like you have a faulty model or something.monospaced
- no i just got it last nightCygnusZero4
- I just ask because people I know with them don't seem to have any issues like that when their phone and service are working normally.monospaced
- I always thought you hated Apple and yet it seems you buy into all their shit for the sole purpose of complaining on QBN about it. Odd one ;)monospaced
- i dont hate them, i just think theyre crap compared to what they used to be. i still buy all their shit bc i can, and im used to having it all synchedCygnusZero4
- the core concept of apple, simplicity, and reliability, died with steve. things are overly complex now and buggyCygnusZero4
- it took me WAY too long to figure out how to get photos from my iphone to my imac. this absurd process using iphotoCygnusZero4
- it should be really fucking simple for idiots, but it is. and im a techy guy and its not self explanatory. at all. its totally ambiguous actually.CygnusZero4
- steve would fire people over this. tim cook is garbage. too busy taking dicks up his ass to care.CygnusZero4
- hey everybody, mono has apple stockspinkfloyd
- So what pink? Means nothing other than I was a smart investor.monospaced
- More like you're biasedpinkfloyd
- not reallymonospaced