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You say bland, I say functional. Since my Casio data bank watch in the 90s I didn't wear a watch until I got my Pebble. To me a watch is a tool, not a fashion
by kbd 12y ago
You say bland, I say functional. Since my Casio data bank watch in the 90s I didn't wear a watch until I got my Pebble.
To me a watch is a tool, not a fashion accessory. I understand not everyone looks at it that way, but really I don't think there's any smartwatch that looks like an elegant timepiece anyway.
- arrrg 12y agoI think that's a totally fair point. I mean, I was once obsessed with those Casio G-Shock watches (when I was a child until maybe a couple years into being a teenager), so I know people want watches like that. I'm mostly coming at this from my own biased perspective, I guess (and I somehow assume that's the more universally shared perspective with the bigger potential market without actually knowing that's the case), and for me this won't do. If a watch can convince me at all that's it's worth wearing it I need it to not look functional and techie and my guess is that would be a more widely appealing approach to these watches. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe there is just no market at all there and this is just a momentary fad. This will be interesting to watch.
- bluthru 12y agoIt's not a choice between bland and functional. Metal and sapphire crystal is much more robust and functional than these cheap materials.
- kbd 12y ago> Metal and sapphire crystal is much more robust and functional than these cheap materials. The screen is Gorilla Glass and the bezel is stainless steel!
- bluthru 12y agoWhat's with the exclamation point? Anyway, Apple is using sapphire for everything except the low end: https://www.apple.com/watch/gallery/ https://www.apple.com/watch/gallery/
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