“Apple released the much-anticipated — and much-hyped — Apple Watch last week, with CEO Tim Cook putting its best face forward,” Jonathon M. Trugman writes for The New York Post.
MacDailyNews Take: No, they didn’t. Trugman’s very first sentence: Wrong already. The Apple Watch release date is April 24th for the first nine countries.
Trugman continues, “Unfortunately for Cook, he never gave us a reason to want or need the gee-whiz gadgetry.”
MacDailyNews Take: Jonathon M. Trugman is a liar.
Cook gave myriad (that mean’s “many,” Jonathan) reasons during his Apple Watch presentations, including, but not limited to: it’s an incredibly accurate timepiece, an intimate and immediate communication device, a groundbreaking health and fitness companion, new ways to receive information at a glance, easily access information that matters, new ways to interact with the world through third-party apps, experience revolutionary technologies including the Digital Crown, the Retina display with Force Touch, and the all-new Taptic Engine, personalize it with a wide array of watch faces, get weather forecast and current location on your wrist, send messages, read email and answer calls to your iPhone right from your wrist, communicate in all-new ways by sending a sketch, a tap or even the rhythm of your own heartbeat, contactless payments with Apple Pay right from your wrist, board planes with Passbook boarding passes on your wrist, raise your wrist to ask Siri for turn-by-turn directions in Maps, dedicated workout sessions for the most popular activities, such as walking, running and cycling through the Workout app, a built-in heart rate sensor, get a comprehensive picture of your all-day activity and workouts, keep you motivated to move, request an Uber cab, book a bike for your Equinox class, remotely control your Honeywell Lyric thermostat, remotely lock and unlock doors…
Trugman continues, “Cook is trying to reinvent the watch, but Google didn’t have much luck trying to re-imagine eyeglasses.”
MacDailyNews Take: You know, because in the Idiotland, where Trugman rides the short bus, this make some sort of logical sense.
Trugman continues, “Just remember, Google Glass was heralded as one of the best inventions of 2012.”
MacDailyNews Take: Okay, we got it the first time. Your “logic” still fails utterly.
Trugman continues, “Here are a few reasons not to buy this timeless gadget.”
MacDailyNews Take: You might want to look up the word “timeless” before you misuse it the next time, genius. But, yes, you miraculously got something right for a change: Apple Watch is indeed timeless.
Trugman continues, “For starters, the pricing model is flawed. The opening commitment if you do not have an iPhone is just under $1,000 to replace your Timex.”
MacDailyNews Take: Jonathon M. Trugman is a serial liar. Apple Watch starts at US$349. You can get an Apple iPhone 5c for $175 on eBay today. $349+$175=$524. Unlike Jonathan, smart people already have iPhones.
Trugman continues, “The Apple Watch is certain to be relegated to a drawer in a year or two when it’s replaced by the Apple Watch 2, with more bells and whistles.”
MacDailyNews Take: So, remember kiddies, never get anything – especially not a “timeless” Apple Watch – because, in a year or two, there’ll be an improved model that you also aren’t allowed to get because, according to “Trugman logic,” in a year or two, there’ll be another improved model. So just sit there, don’t make a move, and wait for infinity to arrive so you can finally actually enjoy the cutting edge like the rest of us Apple product users do every single day.
Full article, tucked behind donotfollow, so this doesn’t improve the Post‘s search engine position, here.
MacDailyNews Take: iCal’ed for future use.
Related painful stupidity and disinformation from Trugman:
Apple needs gadgets, not financial gimmicks or something – April 27, 2014
Lol sounds like all those New York Papers hate Apple, (times and post) yellow sheet journalism at its best.
I’ll be getting a $11k bonus before the preorder date. Sounds like perfect timing to me.
Nice bonus! For what kind of work?
Democratic Party fundraiser.
Oh, I should’ve known by the name.
How’d you know?
I had the same thought. But the guy is still an ignorant and pathetic excuse for a reviewer/writer.
I just rack this up to the typical garbage that comes out of the New York City cesspool of life, from the New York Times to Michael Bloomberg.
The poor guy, think he actually believes what he writes? The horror.
Click bait. Not going to contribute to this guy’s numbers.
don’t read well, eh?
the link says:
“Full article, tucked behind donotfollow, so this doesn’t improve the Post‘s search engine position, here.”
What does that mean? Row do I enable this “do not follow” feature?
A “donotfollow” tag on a Web link tells Google not to consider the link in its popularity algorithm. Affects Page Rank. The link still operates, you do not need to do anything.
Does this pundit actually exist? Or is it someone’s experiment with Artificial Intelligence gone bad? 😀
Has anything that’s published by a Rupert Murdoch owned company ever been based on facts?
I’m sure at least the weather report is fair and balanced. Also, sports scores, stock prices and the results from Aqueduct and Pimlico. Other than that? It’s a toss-up.
Uh, from the Apple launch event?
They actually said ‘endless’? I missed that, then.
True. Every other criticism by MDN is spot on. But this one was off…
Note to MDN: your critical arguments are weakened when one of them wrong- remove that take and everything is great…
Alright I’ll bite, which point is off?
I have read the entire Trugman piece at the Post. It’s more reasoned than this one, and he doesn’t call MDN a “liar.”
Trugman has a reasonable point of view. Steve Jobs knew how to make customers desire his products. I don’t feel the need to own the Apple Watch, which happens to be derivative. Maybe Steve would have had the same problem selling it, so I won’t say this is Tim Cook’s failing. Until the Watch can stand on its own, free of the iPhone, it’s incomplete.
The event a few days ago is an example. The Apple Watch message was diluted by news about other products, and calling something “incredible” over and over again doesn’t make it so.
The Watch will be a success at some level, but I’m not an early adopter, and Trugman is right about Apple Watch 2.
MDN should cool the personal attacks. Bad karma.
What column do you write and in which of Murdoch’s rags? There are four or five of you guys here today.
Nevermind. I’m sure he will be eating his words in a few months time. Just like they did with the iPhone and iPad.
Apple is NOT reinventing the watch. Apple IS reinventing computing. Apple designed a computer that takes the place on a person’s wrist formerly reserved for a watch. The home screen has a watch face. Calling the wrist computer a watch gives people a point of reference that is familiar.
Linking the Apple watch to the iPhone makes the iPhone a better phone. Linking the iPhone to the Apple watch makes the Apple watch a better watch. Linking both devices together produces a synergistic effect where the sum of the two together is greater than either individually, ie, 1+1>2 !
Apple is selling to its own customers, people already known to love and enjoy Apple products.
Apple’s established customers will spread the word about the experience provided by the Apple watch + iPhone.
The Apple watch also gives reason to switch to the iPhone, to get an experience no other can give you.
Apple watch + iPhone, genius. 😀
Pundits Throughout The Ages:
“The hourglass will never replace the sundial.”
“The mechanical clock will never replace the hourglass.”
“Only a few people will ever buy/use a pocketwatch.”
“The wristwatch is unnecessary, we already have the pocketwatch.”
“The digitalwatch will never catch on.”
“The Apple watch will fail.” 😀
Bull sh-ter alert !
Stupid alert!
Waste of time reading alert!
The Apple Watch is within 50 milliseconds of being released at the right time.
Without the phone it is useless. It doesn’t even have its own GPS. C’mon.
NYPost has become a bastion of hate (and its permutations incl. ageism) and ignorance, which shouldn’t be surprising given its parentage. Their recent headline on Madonna’s new Rebel Heart tour was “Like A Has-Been”. Seriously. And now this ludicrous story on the Apple Watch. Sad.
No sucker-click from me for this silly article.
The usual reminder: Follow the ancestry of the Apple Newton on up to the iPhone. It’s direct. It’s innovative. It’s Apple.
If you don’t think the same innovation ancestry is in store for the Watch, you’re hiding from history.
Trugman is half right. Tim Cook gave plenty of reasons to want an Apple Watch, but no reasons to need one.
There’s not a single thing outside of things where you fiddle with the watch itself in MDNs list (people are going to buy it because then they can experience using the digital crown? Really, MDN? That’s a stretch even for you guys) you can’t already do on your iPhone or with a much cheaper fitness tracker that will allow you to wear any style of watch you like. Or none at all. Smartwatches will be a nice addition for some, but the case just hasn’t been made for smartwatches as essentials *at all*.
I know this site is biased but I’ve been coming here for years because it’s still a great source of Mac news. But the frankly absurd levels of hubris and total lack of objectivity surrounding the Apple Watch is a step above.
Now I have been an Apple fan since the Apple II. We have two Macbook Pros in the family, one iMac, three iPads, and 3 iPhones. As a family we have looked at the Apple Watch and agreed it is not a must have since we get what we need from our other portable devices. Plus I have a very nice wrist watch the gives me the time. I don’t know if the Apple Watch will be successful, but we will just have to wait and see. I doubt I will every buy one even at the $349 price. I might consider $69 to $99, but maybe not.
I shall have an Watch. I’m not going to go read the article in question. I’d rather read a bathroom wall than the ravings of an Apple hater.