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I've got to say, this picture makes it look pretty good: http://static.squarespace.com/static/4fa14d3ce4b08a53fa26468e/t/540fc9bae4b00c94d884d87f/1410320838953

by prawks 12y ago

I've got to say, this picture makes it look pretty good: http://static.squarespace.com/static/4fa14d3ce4b08a53fa26468e/t/540fc9bae4b00c94d884d87f/1410320838953/?format=750w http://static.squarespace.com/static/4fa14d3ce4b08a53fa26468... I think as with most watches, it's a piece of your outfit. It doesn't look good on its own, and it's not supposed to.

silverbax88 12y ago
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder - when I saw that picture, it was the one I liked the least. But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things. This article gave me more insight into why someone might actually buy this watch. But in reality I just don't see people clamoring for something like this. Although I never thought Steve Jobs was really a visionary, I did always recognize that he did have enough understanding of the market to see what people were looking for and provide it better than anyone else. I mean, digital music, smart phones, etc. all existed before Apple produced iTunes and the iPhone, but nobody marketed it correctly or provided exactly what people were looking for like Jobs and Apple. I just don't think people who can pull that off come along very often, and I don't think Apple has anyone (at least not facing the public) that can match what Steve did. I'm not sure Jobs would be trying to produce a watch...I might consider what Jobs did and think he might have moved over into self driving cars or something like that. People would buy a self driving car from Apple, and it seems the market is starting to build momentum.
- gbog 12y ago
  > But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things. I often wonder if the motto let's have our own tastes and buy different things is not just some recent invention intended to help us spend more money. I wonder if in the past, e.g.in the middle age, people were that much obsessed by external differentiating assets like clothes, perfumes, shoes and so on. Maybe, just maybe, this is a vast scam. And maybe without ads and tv we would be very happy to wear similar clothes, and let other things, more important things like intelligence or knowledge, differentiate us from the crowd.
  - silverbax88 12y ago
    In the past when new fashions were introduced, it really sucked if you didn't like them, because suddenly that's all you could buy. People didn't like it. They just didn't have much choice. As far as a 'recent' invention, humans have been building completely unique building, architecture and paintings for our entire known history.
- tlrobinson 12y ago
  People would buy a self driving car from Apple, and it seems the market is starting to build momentum. User interfaces and industrial design is what Apple excels at. I'm not sure I'd trust a self driving car from them.
thomasahle 12y ago
1/3 of the width is black, if you count from grey edge to grey edge. I agree that it doesn't look bad or bulky on this image, but the bevel size still strikes me as odd, considering how little room you've got on a watch like this. People said Apple would be mocking Motorola for the black area in the bottom of their watch. I don't personally have a preference in the square/circle debate, but I really thought Apple would be able to get rid of more of the bevel.

by prawks 12y ago

silverbax88 12y ago

I guess it's in the eye of the beholder - when I saw that picture, it was the one I liked the least. But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things. This article gave me more insight into why someone might actually buy this watch. But in reality I just don't see people clamoring for something like this. Although I never thought Steve Jobs was really a visionary, I did always recognize that he did have enough understanding of the market to see what people were looking for and provide it better than anyone else. I mean, digital music, smart phones, etc. all existed before Apple produced iTunes and the iPhone, but nobody marketed it correctly or provided exactly what people were looking for like Jobs and Apple. I just don't think people who can pull that off come along very often, and I don't think Apple has anyone (at least not facing the public) that can match what Steve did. I'm not sure Jobs would be trying to produce a watch...I might consider what Jobs did and think he might have moved over into self driving cars or something like that. People would buy a self driving car from Apple, and it seems the market is starting to build momentum.

gbog 12y ago
> But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things. I often wonder if the motto let's have our own tastes and buy different things is not just some recent invention intended to help us spend more money. I wonder if in the past, e.g.in the middle age, people were that much obsessed by external differentiating assets like clothes, perfumes, shoes and so on. Maybe, just maybe, this is a vast scam. And maybe without ads and tv we would be very happy to wear similar clothes, and let other things, more important things like intelligence or knowledge, differentiate us from the crowd.
- silverbax88 12y ago
  In the past when new fashions were introduced, it really sucked if you didn't like them, because suddenly that's all you could buy. People didn't like it. They just didn't have much choice. As far as a 'recent' invention, humans have been building completely unique building, architecture and paintings for our entire known history.
tlrobinson 12y ago
People would buy a self driving car from Apple, and it seems the market is starting to build momentum. User interfaces and industrial design is what Apple excels at. I'm not sure I'd trust a self driving car from them.

thomasahle 12y ago

1/3 of the width is black, if you count from grey edge to grey edge. I agree that it doesn't look bad or bulky on this image, but the bevel size still strikes me as odd, considering how little room you've got on a watch like this. People said Apple would be mocking Motorola for the black area in the bottom of their watch. I don't personally have a preference in the square/circle debate, but I really thought Apple would be able to get rid of more of the bevel.