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Convenient Truth #0: A smartwatch isn't a watch. Don't compare apples and oranges. Just because you can wear this device on the wrist doesn't make it a watch.
by ExpiredLink 11y ago
Convenient Truth #0: A smartwatch isn't a watch.
Don't compare apples and oranges. Just because you can wear this device on the wrist doesn't make it a watch.
- robmcm 11y agoIt is a watch, clues in the name. However it's not a conventional watch.
- derefr 11y agoTo put it more precisely: it functions as a watch, but the design is not meant to status-signal through the traditional means by which watches status-signal. Apple don't care about "big for the sake of big" (more like "remove until you can't remove any more"); Apple don't care about leather that looks like artisanal leather with stitching et al, just that the material has the physical properties (e.g. sweat absorption) of leather while still having all the features they promised. Effectively, Apple is trying to replace traditional watch status-signalling with more smartphone-esque status-signalling, where a product looks more expensive the more like a mysterious featureless glowing glass bead it manages to seem.