10-09-2014, 10:09 AM
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Apple Watch
We live in a world in which a great deal of effort is expended on finding things to sell us which we didn’t realise that we wanted.The media are beginning to report on another such thing – the Apple Watch. Their thinking is that we need to carry their existing admittedly small and light gizmos. So the new idea is that we should wear something all day without having to remember to take it with us.
They do realise that this can’t be just a mere watch. Indeed people with mobiles tend not to wear them anymore since all the mobile devices will tell you time. So it has to look very smart – so your friends will envy you when they see you wearing it. It will, of course, tell you the time. But the great new ‘breakthrough’ is tell you lots of things about your health – blood pressure, pulse rate, etc. etc.
I suspect that this nonsense will catch on. Just as now people are forever looking at their mobiles to read the latest text messages so in future they will look at their Apple watches as soon as they have walked up a flight of stairs for example. In short we will become a nation of hypochondriacs.
10-09-2014, 11:22 AM
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I would find the watch very useful ,and im sure others would who suffer heart problems and need to watch their BP.I also see the celebs wanting one too , i think for me though the price will be out my range. If they come down in price to about a Hundred then i shall get one,
10-09-2014, 11:27 AM
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The Apple watch sounds like just another pointless bit of kit to me .It's the same with mobile phones , so many of them these days do a lot of of things but not very well. eg they contain an inferior radio, camera , torch etc.
I don't want to view the internet on a minute screen or listen to the radio through earphones but many people seem to have convinced themselves they need to.
10-09-2014, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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The Apple watch sounds like just another pointless bit of kit to me .It's the same with mobile phones , so many of them these days do a lot of of things but not very well. eg they contain an inferior radio, camera , torch etc.
I don't want to view the internet on a minute screen or listen to the radio through earphones but many people seem to have convinced themselves they need to.
10-09-2014, 04:28 PM
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Any of the new techie gadgets make me crazy.. I do eventually get the hang of using them, but only after temper tantrums with rantings and ravings. My poor hubby has had to nurse me through multiple lap tops, an IPad, now an IPod.. I refuse to get an IPhone... I do NOT need another computer. I need only to be able to call home.. or God forbid the police in an emergency. PERIOD. My old flip phone does me fine.10-09-2014, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Older git
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My friend,her of no money, but good at ear bending;Stephan you should get a new computer-why? mine works.
Stephan you should get a new mobie-Why? mine works
Stephan you should get your tv tuned into your computer-why?
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