Laughable Apple watch ads: Urban millenial D.B's that only ever see LARGE buttons on the watch

In article , PeterN
wrote:

I suppose that's true. It could get very expensive
to buy proper equipment for exercising. Exercise
could become a luxury of the rich. But it's a
quirky pastime. I wouldn't be surprised if things
suddenly went the other way, either. There could
be a big craze of exercizing outdoors, and only in
natural fibers. All it would take is for a few hip
hyperchondriacs to develop allergies to spandex
and yoga pants. Then we'll all wish we had spent
that iWatch money on stock in companies that make
some sort of "hand-harvested, authentic unbleached
cotton".


I can tell you from first hand knowledge, that if the fitness business
is a "craxe," it has been so since at least the 70s. Properly run
fitness facilities can be good business.

so much for being a fad.

In article , PeterN
wrote:

the spot watch was *very* different than a smar****ch of today. it was
a one-way device using a microsoft proprietary network that sat on top
of fm radio and could only receive data. it also wasn't in all cities
because microsoft had to sign agreements to transmit the data. its
business model was a yearly subscription. users don't want that.

Adobe agrees. The subscription business model will never work.

adobe doesn't make watches.

try to stay on topic.

The topic is business models. Your words, not mine.

nope. the topic is the microsoft spot watch.

the *entire* paragraph above is about the spot watch. the rest of the
thread is about smar****ches.

My next heart attack will cocme whn you admit to being wrong.

how about you set an example and not lie and twist things?

what i wrote was unambiguously about the spot watch. period.

BTW: The subscription model doesn't work with cars, either.

nonsense. many people lease cars.

Most cars are just a tad larger than a watch.

so what?

apartments are larger than cars and there's a *huge* market for people
who rent them.

Get your sarcasm meter fixed.

get your cluelessness fixed.

then again, perhaps that's not possible.

In article , Mayayana wrote:

| People who follow the fashion of "fitness" as part of a |
conceptualized, semi- conscious routine of self-development and |
self- fulfillment. (Whatever that means. I'm sure they can't tell |
you. They're just doing what the TV ads told them to do. Eating |
power bars made mostly of sugar; wearing "panty hose" on the street
| to show that they work out, even if their behind ends up looking
| like a very large sack of cantaloupes; taking their statins and
high | blood pressure drugs and happy pills to maximize their
quality of | life, while they wolf down a piece of salmon grilled
in olive oil on | their way to yoga class. The average
fitness-savvy person is | arguably unaware of their body to a
surprising extent. "Achieving" | exercise and keeping a record is
part of that.) | | You just described a fitness-ignorant person and
used the phrase fitness-savvy. | Perhaps you're familliar with the
word "savvy"? It usually means someone | knowledgable about
something practicle.

You don't seem to have understood my point.

No, you missed my point.

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Sandman

On 29/05/2015 14:51, Whisky-dave wrote:
But I already know the pulse rate of every dead human the planet has had.

Exactly, that's why I posted thus:
"Most folk would be able to predict their pulse rate at that point
without the aid of an expensive digigadget."

Geddit?

nospam wrote:
looking to the future, additional sensors could monitor other vitals,
such as blood sugar. currently that requires a finger prick but there
is a lot of research into non-invasive methods. for someone with
diabetes, tracking blood sugar levels on a continuous basis could be a
life saver if it alerts them of something abnormal immediately rather
than when they notice they're about to pass out.

I published a world first about continuously monitoring blood sugar in
1960, then further on as well. Current methods measure sugar in the
tissues, not in the blood, and they are most definitely not the same.
There are currently available tissue glucose monitors, with and without
an insulin pump. How in the world do you think that an Apple watch can
do that?

Mort Linder

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Davoud wrote:
Are you the World Arbiter for What People Should Want?

Are you the sole dictator of what appears on this newsgroup site? Are
you afraid of differences of opinions, especially from someone with
knowledge of the problem in question?

Lighten up. Get a life.

Mort Linder

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Sandman wrote:
Less clutter, yay.

It is my understanding that the Apple Watch is fully operative only when
used with a nearby i-phone.

Mort Linder

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On 5/29/2015 12:54 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN
wrote:

the spot watch was *very* different than a smar****ch of today. it was
a one-way device using a microsoft proprietary network that sat on top
of fm radio and could only receive data. it also wasn't in all cities
because microsoft had to sign agreements to transmit the data. its
business model was a yearly subscription. users don't want that.

Adobe agrees. The subscription business model will never work.

adobe doesn't make watches.

try to stay on topic.

The topic is business models. Your words, not mine.

nope. the topic is the microsoft spot watch.

the *entire* paragraph above is about the spot watch. the rest of the
thread is about smar****ches.

My next heart attack will cocme whn you admit to being wrong.

how about you set an example and not lie and twist things?

what i wrote was unambiguously about the spot watch. period.

And of course, totally in context of the discussion.


BTW: The subscription model doesn't work with cars, either.

nonsense. many people lease cars.

Most cars are just a tad larger than a watch.

so what?

apartments are larger than cars and there's a *huge* market for people
who rent them.

Get your sarcasm meter fixed.

get your cluelessness fixed.

then again, perhaps that's not possible.


And once again you resort to the perjorative.

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PeterN

On May 29, 2015, Mort wrote
(in ):

Sandman wrote:
Less clutter, yay.

It is my understanding that the Apple Watch is fully operative only when
used with a nearby i-phone.

Yup!
It is an iPhone accessory.

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Regards,
Savageduck

In article , Mort wrote:

Sandman:
Less clutter, yay.

It is my understanding that the Apple Watch is fully operative only
when used with a nearby i-phone.

Not sure what an "i-phone" is, nor what "fully operational" means in this
context.

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Sandman