“Apple fanboys are hyperventilating about the Watch,” Henry Blodget writes for Yahoo Finance. “Yes, Apple has done the Watch better than other earlier smartwatches. Yes, Apple fanboys will line up for days to buy the Watch and then, once they get it, collapse in paroxysms of pride and ecstasy.”
“I don’t care. I have zero interest in the watch,” Blodget writes. “I’ve been waiting for years to have a bigger mobile screen, and I don’t consider it even the slightest inconvenience to carry it around with me. The last thing I want to do is also carry a tiny screen, especially one that won’t work without my iPhone. I don’t want to carry another charge cord everywhere. I don’t see anything the Watch can do that my iPhone can’t do better (except, perhaps, some biometrics, which I don’t care enough about to shell out another $349, put something on my wrist, and carry around another charge cord for).”
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“I realize that the Watch looks better than some other smartwatches, but it’s still chunky and blocky,” Blodget writes. “$349 is a lot of money for something I don’t need or want. So the fanboys will be having their religious experiences without me… The only Apple product that matters in terms of Apple’s financial performance over the next year is the iPhone. The Watch is irrelevant.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Blodget is the genius who called for Apple to destroy their brand by flooding the market with cheap iPhones as if the cheapskates amassed from such an ill-considered move would be worth the same, not 1/10th or less, than owners of real iPhones.
Blodget is also the genius who said that the design of iPhone 5 meant that Apple would be “screwed.” This would, of course, be just before Apple broke all smartphone sales records and set a new record with the iPhone 5 that stood until the iPhone 5s, with virtually the same design, which promptly proceeded to set yet another new all-time record for smartphone sales.
Blodget, ever the genius, also claimed that Apple’s iPhone, the world’s best selling smartphone, was “dead in the water” back in 2011.
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