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Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 290

The round LG is about $50 cheaper and it looks like a nice $100 watch. Which is problematic since it costs $300.

I especially like the functionless bezel on the G Watch R - nothing says like "sophisticated" like a watch that has a upside-down "30" printed below the face, All the time, even when not using an analog face. Just in case you forget that the 30 minute/second mark is on the 6.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 290

As for looking cleaner and less blocky... Have you seen one? They are not exactly compact, and the look pretty ugly. Not as nice as the LG and Motorola watches, which cost a fraction as much. If it's jewellery, there are better options IMHO.

Errm, those Android watches are almost all way blockier than even the large Apple Watch. Even the round ones. http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/12/look-how-much-sleeker-apple-watch-is-compared-to-android-wear-watches/

Comment Re:And watch makers everywhere sighed. (Score 1) 290

generally out of the price range most people set for watches

What, £42? http://www.watchshop.com/Mecha...

Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.

If you don't mind your watch being off half a minute or so per week.

Comment Re:And watch makers everywhere sighed. (Score 1) 290

News flash..... Digital watches have existed for decades, Hipsters have been cringing for a long time now about them and lamenting about how the mechanical movements are far superior and make their records sound better.

That's why all hipsters have a Rolex and a Samsung phone. No Apple products, that's not for hipsters.

Comment Re:Who wears a watch these days (Score 1) 290

Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they added a slick case and a few additional features that existing phones already had. At most, it was an incremental improvement in functionality wrapped up in a slick marketing campaign.

They removed all those "necessary" buttons everybody all of a sudden can live without. You're welcome Fandroidcheaple.

Comment Re:Who wears a watch these days (Score 1) 290

I have a better chance than you of surviving if I stick a couple of forks in outlet. (Disclaimer: survival of fork-related electric shock is not guaranteed.)

And don't give me that "we mandated safety shutters in 1947 and therefore cannot insert forks into outlets to repeat the experiment" crap. Or that "why the hell are you going around sticking forks in outlets, you moron" crap.

OK, but seriously why the hell ARE you sticking forks in the outlets?

Because as a Free American he fucking can. No government nor common sense can stop him.

Comment Re:Who wears a watch these days (Score 1) 290

I haven't worn a (wrist) watch for decades When you have to do frequent hand washing (in the last 35 years I have been employed in the meat industry, food industry, childcare and elder care) its not worth the hassle.

So you work in any of those industries and pull out your phone when you want to check the time as is always claimed?

Comment Re:Smug Alert (Score 1) 290

Question is, who is smuggiest.

Probably the people who post links to wikipedia or XKCD.

I'm just tired of all the people who buy or don't buy things based on how they think other people will think about them

So your claim is that people pre-ordered the Apple Watch because they expected that millions of others would do so, and they didn't want to be looked down on?

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