Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?

Re: So at least that answers the question..

"What the well dressed uber-knob will be wearing this year"

Nice.

Re: Whatever the price it'll be too much

http://daringfireball.com/ has guesses at the prices. Apparently these are purely guesses, Gruber hasn't been given the wink from anyone at Apple or anything. But if he's right, then yes, all but the low-end model are soul-crushingly expensive. And who wants to pay $350 for a watch with a rubber strap?

Re: Really?

@HildyJ - may I congratulate you on your taste. I'm not being sarcastic, I truly believe that a decent person should wear a decent watch. Casios are fine for teenagers, but adults should wear an adult watch and an Omega is a fine choice. An Apple watch, less so, and a Pebble is simply a wrist advertisement for living with your mum.

Re: Really?

I also. But I also have to pay an extortionate amount (well not really they are craftsmen/women) to service my rolex

Re: Really?

And your watch was how much? And how much do you spend every 2-3 years on a service (£300ish) and oh it tells the time and date. For the record I also had an Omega Chronometer - certainly a decent enough watch but I wanted more than something that just tells me the time so I stopped wearing it. But now the Apple Watch will probably convince me to wear a watch again.

Re: Really?

A Casio is more accurate.

People who walk around with thousands of pounds worth of jewellery on are desperately trying to prove something.

Re: Really?

The difference is the Apple Watch is likely to be around $349 and yes it may only last 4-5 years before you decide to replace it but your Omega / Rolex probably costs you at least that per year by the time you factor in depreciation, loss of interest on the money, insurance and servicing.

As a simple example - my wife has an Omega - the insurance is about £100 a year and it costs about £200 every 2 years for a service / battery replacement. So at least £200 per year excluding depreciation which is probably at least that again (certainly in the first few years) - actually makes the Apple Watch look relatively inexpensive.

Re: Wristing Wear

I instantly thought of a Calvin and Hobbes watch, probably about as much model appeal ;-)

I'm no blind fan of Apple, but I too would prefer sensible discussions about certain topics (especially product design and user experience) without the tribal name-calling.

Apple have their business model, which enables them to do some very interesting things (and frustratingly limit their products' functions on occasion). It is inevitable therefore that they will be cited in conversations across a range of topics.

Unfortunately

It's the iTards who are basically responsible for creating the anti-apple brigade.

When logical thinkers actually look past the marketing hype (magical?), and then look into the patents (rounded corners, swipe to unlock), and comment on how Apple are as innovative as they claim to be, the iTards come out in force to attack the commentor and try to shout them down for not mindlessly worshipping at the sphincter of Jobs.

So the more you attacked us for daring to think for ourselves, the more we fought back, until it got to the point where we thought "bugger always defending, lets mock and ridicule each new product from the outset". This of course started to hurt your precious iFeelings because you were now being treated with the same level of respect as you showed towards others.

You reap what you iSow. iNow iSod iOff iAnd iStop iWhinging.

Re: TIMEX!, TIMEX!, TIMEX!

It won't need a laser because it's "magic"....

Re: Sundial?

Well if they did, at least there wouldn't be questions over battery life.

Re: Why is iWatch battery so bad?

Remember that this is V1 of the product.

The first leccy cars were also shite. (G-Whizz....)

Now that the battery tech has improved then the cars are getting better. I went for a test drive in a PHEV on Saturday. You hardly knew when the petrol engine cut in to charge the battery. In a traffic jam on the M3 it was on leccy. No pollution perfect. When we got going again, the petrol engine started up to charge the battery.

The first jet engines were horribly polluting and innefficient. Now?....

I forsee that in 5 years these devices will last for around a week between charges as battery tech improves.

There is nothing like a behmoth (As Apple is) entering the market to stimulate the boffins to improve its obvious weak points. That generally benefits all the other players in the market.

Will I buy one? No chance. I hate anything on my wrist. If someone were to come out with a pocket watch then I might consider it.

So all you fanbois, hipsters and medallion men please go out and but these things. Then the rest of us can benefit from the advances in this sort fo tech in years to come.