Apple Watch

[Professor]

[Aaron]

Using centralized service with small passive devices is where tech is going... That is why apple got into wearables, besides the fact that they already had the creative engine to make the market attractive...

[Professor]

Here's something I REALLY don't get with any of the watches. You can answer the phone and talk on them.

1) Who wants to talk on speakerphone? I use it so infrequently that I can't imagine wanting the entire world to hear both sides of my conversations.

2) Who wants to talk on a speakerphone that can't have a big/powerful speaker where you can barely hear the other person?

3) How are you going to talk on the speaker if you are wearing long sleeves, coat, suit, etc.?

4) Who doesn't have a bluetooth headset or earbuds?

I dunno - I can't see the phone thingy working well. Until we go all Dick Tracy and have video phone watches . . .

[The Comrade]

[John Galt]

[Aaron]

[jimmyz]

Anyone who doesn't wear a superlative time piece with a Swiss movement cannot be taken seriously. #stopiwatchfatalcrashes.org

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

I wouldn't call it unethical necessarily. As a business person, I try to match my prices not just with what I have spent making it, but also with the perceptions of my customers. And it is interesting because having a price that is too low is nearly as bad as a price that is too high. I sell a luxury-premium product, and price is often used as an indicator of quality (even though that is inaccurate). So for me to sell at the lowest price I can while still making money will create a perception of dishonesty - the customer will wonder how can I sell a premium product for that cost? How can it possibly be competitively priced with the dried herbs or frozen pizza at the grocery store, if it is in fact better? I know that it easily could be, but my customers don't think the same way...

It is kind of like walking into a mansion with an asking price of $150k. You immediately wonder what is wrong with it.

The issue with Apple isn't that they are overpriced, it is that the product is really pretty mediocre, and you have to be someone special to say something idiotic like "Who cards about specs, it just works so well," etc. Because when you question them about what that means, it always means something absurdly idiotic ("it takes me three taps to make a call on Android but only two on iPhone durhurhur").

So what it comes down to is that Apple's business model is for idiots, and they thrive on it. But exploiting idiots for financial profit is the bedrock of our society. So I wouldn't call it unethical so much as unscrupulous.

No insults. -u

[Aaron]

Where is the responsibility for you to have eyes in your head to see the difference? Why can't a consumer see that a Samsung phone is just as good as an iPhone if it actually is?