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AAPL Tests Key Techincal Support As iClock Disappoints
But... but... but... it's the best ever, the most innovative, "never been seen before" - apart from none of that is true (as we noted yesterday).
On the new iPhone...
I couldn't help myself, sorry. pic.twitter.com/NrwbqHMVL4
— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) September 9, 2014
It appears investors feel the same way as AAPL's stock price tumbles from pre-celebrity-naked-selfies to the critical 50-day moving-average...
Will it bounce like yesterday?
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I'm the only kid on the block with a Samsung......the bullying is relentless.
I actually have a BB Z10, so I get bullied from both sides.
Blackberry Z30 is a multi-tasking monster. Plus people can't steal your private shit. Oh and zero advertising on your phone!!!!!
I'm holding out for the Passport. I need a physical keyboard again.
This is a scam from the get-go. The truth is that the product is not the watch - the product is the watch-iPhone combination purchase. Talk about a sucker punch - but I guess that Apple fans fall for anything from their Tech Goddess, so why not deny that you are getting suckered into buying both?
I've seen posts talk about it being great for monitoring your heart - gee, you obviously have way too much money if you need to buy an overpriced phone and watch to monitor your heart.
The rest of its abilities fall along the same line - so you are going to read your texts, then have to get out your phone to reply? You are going to now have to surgically implant the phone because the watch won't even tell time without it? The apps are all dependent on the phone - so really it's not a watch - it's an extension screen for the phone that you wear on your wrist.
Bottom line - this is typical Apple fare: All ego for insecure, inadequate people who need to feel superior to others even though they aren't.
Oh well, I guess you could give the money to your therapist, but then you couldn't be the ego-tripping show-off that you are when you wear this watch, and pull out your phone, in combination.
Because the "2-fer" scam is what this is all about. And the Apple addicts are always ready to shoot up another dose, even if it's been cut with old technology.
-30-
Welp, re
It can't be that I'm the only one who sees the writing on the wall of the future! ... The HUMANCENTiPAD project. Implants are coming, Sir.
Zero advertising you say??? Hmmmmmm... I want that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love my Z10. The iWatch is a bit of a joke. My 20yr old Tissot keeps perfect time, has a saffire crystal and titanium band and is waterproof to 200meters. It's damn near indestructable. I wonder what happens when you take your iWatch diving.
Saphire crystal...
Sapphire you dolt!
Z10 here.
Zero advertising? If something like ABP would be available for their browser, then maybe.
Z10 here as well, it just works.
My timex is still working.
Bad news is always good news in the surreal market today. Watch the stock pass 110 by end of month.
P.S. I still use my old Palm Pilot from 14 years ago.
Just paste an Apple logo on the strap.
BOOM! iwatch
Uh, no. The Timex has better battery life and no banner ads...
".... Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking ... "
Smith & Wesson Tritium Tactical Watch
Most watches don't have glow-in-the-dark dials anymore!
still rockin my Swatch like it was 1999.
Z10 here also. Best phone ever.
Z10 here, at least until T-Mobile stopped supporting it.
Now it's a Z30 from VZN, which works even better -- gotta love that 24hr battery!
This summer some chick was relentlessly pestering me about my Q10 at a bar in the East Village. She was calling her friends over to show them. It was like i was the Encino Man. She about hit the floor when I told her that I usually use a StarTAC when I'm able to escape my work obligations. It's just a phone . . .I will never understand this phenomenom.
I usually get that "you're wearing a fannie pack" look when I tell people I have a blackberry.
pods
That describes the look pretty well. I like it.
I used to have an Altair 8800B, which I sold on eBay. Now, the oldest computer in the house is a Commodore C64!
The APPLE product zombies remind me of the BMW 3 Series zombies in that the mentality is "I have a bit of extra money, and NEED NEED NEED everyone to think I'm all that and rich, ergo, I'll buy a 3 Series just because EVERYONE ELSE has been conditioned to think they're the best cars on the road". Truly the blind leading the blind... nothing more.
Exactly and that will never end so you should buy aapl with both hands till the end of time, on margin.
I have a Motorola MotoX and it's awesome. If someone give me any smartphone lip, they get whorepunched right in the neck!
I don't use my iPhone's anymore, but I was hoping the new ones would have had edge to edge screens and not those HUGE top and bottom bezels.
hold on I'm with you bro..
remember those idiotic trends with yellow wristband "live strong" or something they disapear
same thing will happen to this iwatches and its sounds like you r a cop or something - IWATCH
who need to wear some shit like this except for self identifying short term trends idiots
in order for the watch to work one have to have the iphone
so whats the point of having both?
Haters gonna hate!
I will wait in line for 5 days when the iWatch 2.0 comes out. They always get it right at 2.0 or 3.0 or 4.0...just keep buying and eventually you reach iApple iTard nirvana.
FAG! Get over here so I can give you an atomic wedgie!
Dude, KIES did it for me. Never again samsung.
KIES of death
Ps: I use a Samsung windows phone
methinks it will be a while before you can actually buy an iwatch. Ever worked out gotten all sweaty with a metal banded watch. it looks pretty but gets nasty fast. Fair amount of pomp and circumstance here along with some smoke and mirrors.
It will hold... if for no other reason than it is being mentioned here on ZH.
Maybe Apple should use more of their cash to buy some more glowing reviews, like this one:
http://www.wral.com/review-apple-watch-looks-to-be-another-winner/13968058/
I would quote it, but I pee a little from laughing every time I read a snippet.
Okay, here is 1:
pods
I've used Apple products since they rolled out the first iPhone, but I refused to upgrade after the 4s. I was holding out until they rolled out something larger than the 5s. Then after the NSA crap I decided to tell them to fuck off, but I still troll around the Apple sites. The fanboys were freaking ridiculous. I couldn't believe how they were getting digital hardons over this piece of crap. It's like they enjoy getting raped by Apple's minuscule changes with each "upgrade ".
Another reason I stopped listening to iLimbaugh occassionally when in the car. Apple's staff and employees are among the most liberal restards in the world and Operation Mockingbird fat boy loves their iShit. Talks about it ad naseum and love tax cheats iApple.
As Glenn Beck the Mormon See Aye Aye Mockingbird and NeoCon who says to be real Christians we need to allow more illegals to flood in.
I have avoided Apple's products since I tried to wipe a hand me down ipod from my wife. iTunes and me do NOT get along.
Wife has the 4s and she likes it, except for the need to constantly tether due to shitty battery.
pods
iTunes has always been a big turnoff for me. It's the most unintuitive piece of software Apple has ever released and it's the way it is for one reason: to make sure Apple can skim off as much profit as possible. Not being able to simply drag and drop music files into a music folder without all the Sync and "Add to Library" bullshit is a deal breaker for me. My Z10 has a 16GB MicroSD card that can easily be filled with video, music, etc. with simple drag and drop file operations.
Be forewarned, by accepting the iTunes service agreement, you're automatically volunteering for some future "HUMANCENTiPAD" project
The only worthwhile thing Apple maks are MacPros, everything else is polished dog shit.
Fashion accessory...yeah right. I would never own one. I'd be too paranoid it would be updating some social network or video site while I'm taking a piss or wiping my ass. As far as I know, I'd be calling or texting my entire contact list while furiously jerking off to nude pictures of celebrity dumbasses who unwittingly uploaded pics of themselves to the 'cloud'...
Did you find a new desire to watch The Hunger Games?
pods
What was JLaw thinking when she uploaded a pic of her c^m splattered face?
Well the strap might be sweat proof, but the idiot watch is not waterproof, nor is it even water resistant. So there you go!
I really don't get the hype over the watch... Thought people were not buying watches anymore, using their SmartPhones instead...
I can't think of anyone I know that wears a watch anymore.
Yup, the only time I ask someone for the time is when I can see that they already have their smartphone out :)
I wear a watch. I guess Im just a relic of the past.
Me too, from one relic to another.
A nice mechanical watch is a more impressive feat of engineering than any silly I-watch.
A nice mechanical watch is a more impressive...
Agreed. I'll continue waiting for the "In Like Flynn" James Colburn one I saw as a kid. You know, the one that has a little T gadget that comes out and starts his pulse after he falls asleep balanced between 2 upright chairs.
Now that was Cool!
jmo.
Am I naive or people really start to realize that apple is nothing but baseless hype.
Go back to sleep. You are having a bad dream.
I'll wait on the iPhone 7, which is rumoured to include state-of-the-art rotary dial cursor control and comes preloaded with an app to burn all my 8-track classics to CD.
Ahem, it is not a 'rotary dial cursor', it is a 'digital crown'...
I bet Smoke On The Water will sound great on an Apple iPhone because they are the best. Steve Jobs said so.
It's what happens when you run out of ideas..
Personal information technology is more or less fully developed.
You can only make screens so small, you can only make them so big, and there are only a limited number of things people really want to look at.
It's like refrigerators; new ones get released every year, but Whirlpool doesn't get international press every time they do.
The "smartphone" was hardly revolutionary. It was just a conglomeration of technologies whose time had come. Apple was first to throw it all together, slap their logo on it and pretend like everything was invented by them. Apple's success comes from smug dupes and the idiots who aspire to be smug dupes... and we all know the world hasn't run out of smug dupes and idiots.
Or the real reason the watch is not being received well - "It's not something Steve Jobs fixed before announcing it". The watch is not coming out until 2015 so let's hope there is someone left at Apple who can listen to the critics and fix the problems.
Actually Apple had a nifty smaller gadget a couple years ago with one of the iPod nano generations - then they crippled it to force customers into higher margin products.
Fuck Crapple and their eyeWatch. Because we all know they've been in bed with the NSA. Sleep with dogs, wake up with flees (sic).
Too much money, too few ideas, I think it's a fuck up of an idea. Should avoid this market all together and move on.
Apple, the new Microsoft.
Does Apple (stolen from the Beatles) have any new ideas?
Dude, they have this "watch"! It's huge innovation! I mean, it's a watch, man!!!!!!!
Only apple can invent a watch that doesn't keep time and call it a watch.
normal folks would call it a wrist weight with a light.
is security an option with this version?
Damn apple watch will transmit everything including your biometric data to the friggin NSA. They'll know your resting heart rate, pulse rate while you're jogging, usual routes while taking your run, etc, etc.
How can masses of people buy into this bullshit wholesale?
When that biometric data becomes "unfavorable" you'll get higher health insurance rates AND be placed on the government's "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" Obamakare list as you'll become an instant organ donor AND the government will end up saving $$$ not paying you any SS benefits. Can you see how the 'grand plan" is completing its full circle???
Thanks Obama!
You like your Apple Watch, you can keep your Apple Watch!
Not to mention storing your fingerprint. How often do people tap a damn ipad these days? All these apps being used, how do we know they arent storing impressions of our fingerprints while we use them? Now they have a digital image of our prints. Use a 3d printer and viola, time to frame some sucker for a knife murder he didnt commit
They already had a fantastic set of mine when I got my CCW.
Soon all iCitizens will be issued a iNSA watch
Gadget of the Beast?
The watch that watches you.
Who watches the watchers?
WiiWatch
Do you really think that lil' ol' Blackberry has a security system that is impenetrable to the NSA! You must be snorting some of that good Dick Cheney Afghan opium.
NSA idk, but at least my phone lets me know what information each and every application wants access to, and allows me to yay or nay each one. Seems BBRY is behind the times with what they sell. They are still trying to sell products instead of my information. Maybe it's a Canadien thing?
pods
An article appeared on MarketWatch in the middle 0f 2012.that was titled "Ten Things Apple Won't Tell You" It was penned by Quentin Fottrell who writes for SmartMoney.com. I thought it had a lot of merit. You can chase the article down or see the bulk of it below and that will give you the general idea of its message.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/09/10-things-apple-wont-tell-you.html
But... but... but... it's the best ever, the most innovative, "never been seen before" - apart from none of that is true (as we noted yesterday).
I bet the Apple Watch can count how many strokes it takes to jerk off to an image of yourself
Take that non-Western Civilization!
iDGAS
But the convenience of having to have your phone with you to make the watch work just blows my mind. Now that's innovation. Just think you can buy both for just around $650 so you can look at you 1.5 inch screen while keeping your "big" screen in your pocket.
it makes it easier for muggers to find the rich morons in a crowd.
When the iwatch is removed from your wrist without the security code it automatically updates your facebook page with an IbeenRobbed status....
Clearly it is time for someone to make a robot that can do something. All this hyped up, non-progress, TV dinner tech is just embarrasing.
What is sad is that idiot Balmer at MSFT set robots back 10 years. They have had the software for a long time. But no. Instead of investing in robot hardware he bought a friggen handset maker.
I'm holding out for that nifty flying car by Moller promised us in the 60s.
What WILL they think of next?
The British entry...
If apple wants me to wear that thing, they need to work out a deal with David Yurman.
GAY!
Even though I don't own a single i product (my kids do - lots of them), I don't get the hate for the company. Yeah, I spot the rip off a mile away, but as a "tech" company it is actually one of the most solid ones out there. Compare that to the likes of Amazon, candy crush, Tesla etc. You actually get a company that generates good profit. I bought shares close to the bottom (low 400s) and it has been my best investment of the last two years by far. Don't get me started on my phys gold with average buying price of 1600.
As to the product launch, I thought they were very much par for the expected course. I don't see the share price going much either way.
If you want to understand the widespread hatred of Apple, Inc., delve into a history of their absurdly agressive litigation. They appear to have had a policy of - "if they make tech, sue them". They in fact agreed, in a settlement with the Beatles record label, Apple Corp, that they would not enter the music business and Apple Corp agreed to stay out of the computer business. Apple Corp stayed out of the computer business, Apple, Inc. on the other hand........ Thankfully, they only have around 5% of the computer market. This small share explains, contrary to Apple's claims of being "better", why they have a lesser problem with security issues. I mean, what hacker wants to bother with a system with such a miniscule footprint. They have survived largely via marketing, but that seems to be failing them now. I personally dislike the fact that they seem to feel that a customer, even after paying an absurd price, never actually owns the device and is forever subject to Apple's control freak policies.
I suggest to all my friends that they should buy a Debian, instead.
The Little Debians are quite tasty,but high in calories. Don't forget to use a fork on your Kernel or you'll wind up with a BSD on your privates.
Just the fact their friggin watch is square tells me they lost their touch. They should have the best looking watch (functionality never meant a damned to the Apple fanboi's)
I agree with you; I made 30% in 10 months. Looks like we're in for another trade, soon.
I've got a mechanical, wind-up watch with a window into the gears and gizmos. In times of stress, looking at the movement in motion is very soothing in addition to acting as a reminder of our temporary existence. I would never trade that for some digital number flasher...
cook is not up to the task ... apples answer to bolmer.... plodder.... jobs wanna lookalike actalike... melba toast... no vision
special "alloy of gold" that is twice as strong.... what is it.... 9k gold..??
yes the watch may be waterproof but the phone sure isn't... forgot had it in bsuit pocket .. ooops
when the watch operates independent from the phone .. ok then that's intersting
i am waiting for the sapphire crystal faced phone... pay system... dont need it ... all shopping online freeship/notax
give me a holographic phone like the keyboard projeciton and telepathic communications (via the watch) hey babe.... read my mind.....
It's just poor marketing. If they had called it Diet Smith's wrist radio it would have been a major success.
a liquid crystal tatto that communicates with your phone, and is erasable as well as having a disappear until I need you feature would be a true breakthrough device.
a little screen with a wrist strap reminds me of an mp3 player at the gym more than a technical tour de force.
apple just face planted.
Samsung had a watch a while ago. Apple consumer zombies wait in line as expected.
Fuck 'em.
The RF emitted by any wearible phone should be worrysome.
Investors tell the lemmings that Apple disappoints to get people out of their stock. Big investors buy at a cheaper price knowing that the stock will go back up. Watch the video, the watch and abilities are anything but a disappointment. Cooler than any Samsung watch (aka brick on your wrist).
Seems ironic that it was the pcd that eliminated the need for a wristwatch around a decade ago..
G-Shock, bitchez !
It's so funny. Our cellphones and other digital age products made wristwatches obsolete. You can find the time anywyhere, because everything can tell you the time.
Now they want people to pay money to have a limited cellphone on a tiny 2005 screen, or actually worse? In other words, Apple once again wants you to pay an obscene amount of money for a product where you can get something a lot better for a lot less. $349? Fuck that. Any generic phone from a crappy company for $69, five years ago, beats the iWatch.
Absolutely idiotic idea. I wonder if this is just Apple fucking up trying to muddle through the aftermath of Steve Jobs. It would make sense that at some point Steve Jobs might have wanted this. The problem was, by 2005, if not earlier, Jobs probably said... yeah, this won't work anymore. An iWatch would of been accepted in 1995. The problem is, cellphones started having much bigger screens then you could have on a watch, at least without looking really funky. Not to mention all the ancilliary smartphone uses that take advantage with those bigger screens, internet, and cameras. An iWatch has little place in a smartphone world.
When people thought that something like the iWatch was the future, it got surpassed by the pre-smartphone cellphone, let alone the smartphone, and the morons forgot to update their thinking. Now they just made a shitty, obsolete product, because they were too stupid to realize the market, a long time ago, came up with product, a whole bunch better. But it's Apple, so they think they can charge $399 for crap.
I can see having a $20 wristwatch phone for kids as their first cellphone, but that's about it. Someone might make the case as a redundant 2nd phone. Okay.. $20.
While I'm sure it'll sell like crap, they will still find a number of suckers who buy one.
Idildo next?
iWatch: Now you can show the world that you are a cunt by taking your hand out of your pocket!
My phone? I proudly use a Nokia 6020. It is battle tested and the battery lasts like a week. It is fully scratched and the paint has peeled off. Most of the time I forget it at home.
It is a ugly motherfucker, but strong and I can use it to hit someone in the face.
Take that NSA!
A watch so ugly only a hipster could love it.
All my cell phone does is make phone calls. I feel sooo alone (sobs).
"KITT, keep your scanners peeled"
The competition in this are the traditional watchmakers. And since the i-Watch is as useless as the much more expensive watches, but more hip, it will be a huge success.