“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.
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