iMorons unite and buy an idiotic watch for $500 that has to be recharged every 3 hours and does the exact same things as your iPhone. The idiocy of the iGadget addicted iBoobs is immense. Here’s my new Apple Watch that I bought for 99 cents a pound:
Here’s some more creative less expensive options:
Apple Watch May Be DOA As Cook Admits Battery Life As Low As 3 Hours
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/10/2015 09:13 -0400
The Apple Watch may be pretty… but you are going to need up to 8 of them to make it through a full day. While Tim Cook proclaimed 18 hours of “all-day battery-life” – itself not particularly impressive compared to competing products, hidden deep in Apple Watch’s product page is a little admission that battery life (in use) could be as low as 3 hours…
The admissions are significantly less than the 18 hours that Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced in the glitzy launch on Monday.
They could prove a major problem for users who will have to charge up multiple times in a day using the magnetic clip-on charger.
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He claimed it would be “revolutionary”, but now it seems that the battery might be what one tech website described as its “Achilles Heel”.
On its website, Apple gave figures for battery life based on the smaller 38mm (1.4 inch) version. The 42mm (1.7 inch) version will last longer, though no figures were given.
Leaving it in reserve mode will last up to 72 hours, and leaving it in “Watch Test” mode will last up to 48 hours.
But should you use any of the features Mr Cook talked about in his press conference, it will last significantly less.
Apple tried to make the figures more impressive by giving an example of a typical user chewing up their 18 hours of battery life as follows: 90 time checks (five per hour), 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth.
But on the product page of the watch website, it also gave the lower figures for talking or using it to workout.
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From zerohedge: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-09/how-christy-turlington-cost-apple-17-billion-annotated-apple-watch-event
Evidently Apple played some weird commercial at the same time and the stock totally tanked.
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Apple, its SO over.
I scaned a article the other day that stated Apple was working on a gold Apple watch that would use up to two ounces of gold per watch. It seems Apple would be purchasing so much gold to produce these new watches that it could move the price of gold higher. Hummmm no thanks, I would just by two ounces of gold and be just as happy.
The NSA and your local law enforcement thank you for your continued expensive, and completely voluntary (at this time, TBD), assistance to protect you from the terrorists, and evil raw-milk purveyors.
What the hell. Our doctors get to comb into our credit card purchases, the IRS gets to comb our medical records, our TV’s, phones, tablets and laptops are recording our conversations AND our movements, let’s just make it easier for our jailers and strap our ankle bracelets with advanced! technolgy! on our damned arms.
Plop down $600, pay $100 a month, and provide the judge with proof positive of every movement and conversation as a bonus.
But wait, there’s more! The laws today won’t be the laws tomorrow, help the poor, underpaid (for life) prosecutors retroactively judge you!
We. Are. Fools.
And deserve what is coming.
Oops, that would be (buy two ounces of gold).
You people are all pinheads. I wrote the code for that watch. It’s a great product, and I already bought one for every member of my family. You people really aren’t very smart. I’m starting to wonder why I bother to even post my wisdom here.
Apple has made a good living “perfecting” gadgets that already exist… like the desktop computer, personal music device, the tablet, the smart phone, etc. All of these other successful products for Apple have been in growth markets, but watches are a dying relic of the past. I still wear one on occasion (rarely) but I’m a curmudgeon. Look around – who is wearing a watch? Fewer and fewer people. It might be different if it *replaced* the iPhone in your pocket, but it won’t. So why bother?
You people are all pinheads. I wrote the code for that watch. It’s a great product, and I already bought one for every member of my family. – Dipshit
If it’s such a great product and you were the guy who wrote the code for it, then why did you have to BUY them?
Seems to me a company that stands to make zillions of dollars off of such a “great product” would freebie a few to the guy who made it possible… as a little “thanks for the effort”…
If anyone’s a pinhead, it’s you.
Billy
That may have been a doppleganger. 🙂
This dopple-ganging shit MUST stop, or I’m never coming back!
I like Araven’s sarcasm.
As Admin has pointed out from time to time, I lack humor. But I have a fine appreciation of sarcasm.
Sarcasm aside, I happen to be acquainted with a retired Apple engineer, retired 5 years ago, who participated in the design of some of the company’s most iconic products…. and she doesn’t use any of them. She is still walking around with an old Samsung flip phone. She considers most of the i-phone functions and apps to be either useless, or downright pernicious. And she’d never dream of doing any kind of financial transaction, or anything else where security is important, over a cell phone of any type.
Stupid me.
Stupid me for not putting $10,000 in AAPL in 2003.
Stupid me for not realizing that a firm that puts out fashionable, me-too toys-for-adults would go on to sport a market cap larger than that of Exxon/Mobil.
Stupid me for not realizing that $10,000 invested in AAPL at its low of 2003 would, when taking into account all splits and such, be worth $1,235,841 and change 15 minutes ago.
As my youngest son said yesterday, “Yeah, hard to believe a toy company is worth more than a major oil firm.” This son is a programmer and systems analyst, graduated college in 2.5 years and while in college worked for the residence hall helpdesk repairing students’ and employees’ computers.
An Apple Fanboi he is not.
Yeah, d.c., I hear you. I feel just as stupid.
Trouble is, people like you and I expect things to make sense. Why would anyone spend $600 on an I-phone that really isn’t anymore functional than a $50 LG Optima, or, for that matter, why would anyone pay $1000 or more for an I-mac that doesn’t have the performance or functionality of an Asus with an Intel i3 processor?
But, then, why would anyone spend $10,000 accumulating Beanie Babies, and why would anyone buy a “pet rock”? Gawd, how I wish I’d thought of something like the pet rock!
It would take 2.5 years of Foxconn wages to afford $10,000 Apple Watch
By Jennifer Booton
Published: Mar 10, 2015 3:47 p.m. ET
$10,000 watch underscores gap between suppliers, customers
NEW YORK (MarketWatch)—While Apple Inc. is getting ready to sell a $10,000 gold watch, its most expensive product ever and a ticket into the world of luxury goods, a wage fight continues to brew under the surface, far from the glitz of product events in Cupertino and San Francisco.
Apple’s event on Monday to unveil Apple Watch kicked off with a video featuring smiling workers at its latest China retail outlet. But as Apple gave a nod to China, which has become an integral part of its sales strategy, workers on the manufacturing lines in the same country are being hurt by low wages and stressful working conditions, according to labor activists.
While conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Co. 2354, -1.12% have improved since 14 suicides were reported at its Chinese plants in 2010, New York-based rights group China Labor Watch says Apple has been shifting iPhone orders to an even cheaper supplier, Pegatron Corp. 4938, +0.00% to offset Foxconn’s rising labor costs.
Apple’s razor-thin supply chain has been cited many times by Wall Street analysts for strong profit growth forecasts. Total quarterly labor costs for Apple’s supply chain were estimated at $3.4 billion, or 4.4% of Apple’s $74.6 billion revenue and 18% of its $18 billion profit in the fourth quarter, according to data crunched by China Labor Watch.
It would cost Apple an additional $1.9 billion a quarter to bring worker base wages in Apple’s entire supply chain—an estimated 1.5 million workers—to parity with the basic living-cost level of an average urban resident in China, according to the rights group, which compiled the data using pay stubs from Pegatron Shanghai workers in January.
To give some additional perspective on the wage gap between Apple’s suppliers and the wealthy consumers Apple targets with its products, it would take the average Foxconn worker more than 31 months, or about two-and-a-half years, to earn enough money to afford the $10,000 Apple Watch Edition they are helping to build. That’s assuming a monthly base wage of 2000 Chinese yuan ($320), according to China Labor Watch.
Apple uses a number of suppliers for its new Apple Watch and MacBook, including Taiwan’s TPK Holding 3673, -0.88% AAC Technologies 2018, -1.39% TXC Corp. 3042, +1.04% Quanta Computer Inc. 2382, -0.25% Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. 2311, +6.70% Casetek Holdings 5264, +1.14% and Catcher Technology Co. 2474, +0.00% according to a recent Barron’s report citing Daqia Securities supply chain analyst Kylie Huang. But Foxconn has captured the most scrutiny for its working conditions, and now Pegatron, too, has been criticized.
To be fair, Apple has taken steps to ensure its supply chain improves conditions for workers, and its executives have said that the company has made this a priority. In 2014, Apple reported that roughly 93% of its suppliers had complied with a policy requiring the workweek be restricted to 60 hours. Since the suicide reports first emerged in 2010, Foxconn’s overcrowded dorms have been reduced to eight people per room.
But China Labor Watch said Apple is relying increasingly on Pegatron, whose base and overtime wages are 21% lower than Foxconn’s during peak times, and total hourly labor costs are 8% lower.
Pegatron workers averaged above a 60-hour workweek from September to November 2014 when Apple ramped up production of the iPhone 6, with some workers racking up more than 100 hours in a week. Hours were sharply curtailed in December, however, following a report by the BBC exposing the Pegatron Shanghai conditions, China Labor Watch said.
Pegatron’s rising earnings and Foxconn’s weakening growth underscore this, with Pegatron far exceeding expectations in the third quarter of 2014. Foxconn also posted strong earnings growth in November, although some of that was due to its relationship with upstart Chinese manufacturers, including smartphone giant Xiaomi Inc. Shares of Foxconn have gained 16.5% over the last 12 months, while those of Pegatron have risen 115%.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. Its shares fell 1.7% to $125.03 in recent trade. They are up close to 65% over the last 12 months.
Supply chain practices have long been a problem for Western brands looking for cheaper and faster labor.
In 2013, more than 1,100 workers were killed in a clothing manufacturing collapse in Bangladesh that had ties to Western brands.
Admin, Apple also spent $50 million on “diversity” (also known as paying off Jesse Jackson’s ilk, keeping him in pinstripe suits and helping him maintain his entourage when he travels.)
They’re going to do everything they can to make Apple look more like America.
I guess the House that Jobs Built is so wealthy that they can afford to pay a bunch of female, black and brown people (and LGBT&^$%# people, I guess) to sit in the air conditioning and hold video conferences about nothing.
By DEFINITION, what Cook proposes is to actively hire less qualified people simply based on their contribution to the color palate. If Apple isn’t actively discriminating against PoC and women, then its current racial/sex mix reflects hiring of optimal talent, i.e., the most qualified people. Apparently the “most qualified” are too often male, Caucasian and Asian.
How can people embrace the notion that “best qualified” should be turned down in favor of color/sex qualified? Maybe this is an obscure way to get men to go for transgender; a man says to his wife, “Gee, Honey, even though I’m better qualified for the job, I’ll be turned down in favor of a woman. If I go Trans, however, I jump to the head of the line.”
I reiterate my belief that such hubris will eventually see this company go entirely out of business.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/10/apple-shareholder-meeting-tim-cook-jesse-jackson-diversity-silicon-valley/24300147/
Chicago999444
Thank you very much. I live and breath sarcasm so watch out. Your ongoing support is important to me. Judging by the crazy swinging dicks here us bitches have to stick together.
Araven,
You have been doppled by the king of all dopplgangers, consider it a high honor. Also if you were a guy they wouldn’t call you a bitch, they would just say you are very demanding, funny how that works.
Bob.
I don’t get all the fuss over this. Wristwatches are obsolete.
“Araven, You have been doppled by the king of all dopplgangers, consider it a high honor.”
—– Bostonbob
It is my humble opinion that the real Araven has not yet shown up in this thread. Just sayin’. I could be wrong though.
iwatch people buy dumb shit every day… icaramba
I prefer to use the term “ihole” to refer to apple product loving drones.
Why You Shouldn’t Buy The Apple Watch
This guy [Russell Brand] is out there but I do enjoy listening to anyone that can speak that intelligently, that eloquently and that #$%$# fast.
What is it about the Brits and their command of the English language – I know all the words but I could NEVER string them together verbally with that rapidity. I sometimes suspect they threw the non-verbal kids into the Thames and allowed the verbal genes to go forward. It’s just a theory.
I learned early onto dislike attention, we used to visit my grandma across the border. Speaking English invited requests. It was as if we were circus freaks, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters.
Wearing a computer on my wrist? No thanks.
EC
Are most people across the border Apple fans? Do most have I phones?
Your government serving you
Posted on 03/10/2015 by Wirecutter
Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.
The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a decade, with the first CIA-sponsored meeting taking place a year before the first iPhone was released.
By targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple’s devices, the researchers have sought to thwart the company’s attempts to provide mobile security to hundreds of millions of Apple customers across the globe. Studying both “physical” and “non-invasive” techniques, U.S. government-sponsored research has been aimed at discovering ways to decrypt and ultimately penetrate Apple’s encrypted firmware. This could enable spies to plant malicious code on Apple devices and seek out potential vulnerabilities in other parts of the iPhone and iPad currently masked by encryption.
The CIA declined to comment for this story.