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Apple Watch: $17,000 smartwatch is obsolete after latest update
- foobarbazetc 8y agoEveryone knows you never buy an Apple V1. :)
- valuearb 8y agoMy Series Zero is still going strong! Has been a delightful purchase, almost as good as my AirPods. Don’t understand the issue over the original Edition watch. Obviously, like any computer, it wasn’t getting updated forever. The only reason to get one was perceived prestige, it was the closest thing to a Veblen good in consumer electronics. And it should be cheap and easy to replace an Editions guts with series 3 parts, too.
- Rjevski 8y agoSeries 3 is actually thicker than Series 0 I believe. You would have better luck putting Series 2 hardware in there.
- draw_down 8y agoPretty sure it will still tell time :)
- Rjevski 8y agoWhen Apple Watch was announced I remember reading somewhere that there would be an upgrade program for these “premium” models to either trade them in for store credit towards a new one or directly replace its hardware with updated stuff. Anyone knows if this ever happened?
- forgottenpass 8y agoOf course it is. $16k of the cost of that watch goes towards showing others you have $17k to piss away on a watch. The market segment that buys a $17k watch only wants a new and improved model if everyone with the previous model is transformed into looking like a penny-pinching try-hard that doesn't quite fit in.