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Apple Launches Magnetic Apple Watch Dock for $79
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low profile, affordable, support night stand mode, no messy cable.
Subpar hardware??? Really, I thought it was the software. What hardware are you referring to?
How many of the products, excluding Apple care, are the same as previous versions? New features, rechargeable batteries or memory, have been added. So they should be free?
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You're way off. It this was a Vertu product, price would be 10x.
Similar chargers, even simple stands, from third party are priced the same or higher, despite not having the kind of residual value Apple products have.
This is not a mandatory buy, this is no life-saving pill. No need to be "disgusted", just don't buy it.
I think I would pay $79 for an apple watch dock if it also had an integrated iphone charger stand, but for that? Nahh, I'll pass.
Also to those in other countries, in America we don't include any taxes in our prices since different cities and states charge different percentages. Where I live, I would pay $86.31.
Also to those in other countries, in America we don't include any taxes in our prices since different cities and states charge different percentages. Where I live, I would pay $86.31.
Nope, this is my only one. The Milanese loop doesn't touch the table with this one cause you can tighten in before putting it on the stand (I also have that band). A stand makes sense and it's cheap so go for it.
What an excellent point. That a little bit of a design fail.
I think the pricing is spot on. People will pay it, so you can't blame Apple for pricing it as such.
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Imagine! They add 50cm to a cable and give you a magnetic charger that costs probably no more than $1 to make!
Bargain!
What a stupid immature thing to say. We're all here because we love the products make. Unfortunately the Apple Watch is not one of them for me. Personally, I think it's overpriced consumer junk with no meaningful purpose but I get it if you like it.
What we are discussing is Apple's step towards overcharging for cheap crap like this charger. It's ugly, looks cheap, and is hideously overpriced. You have to be insane to believe this is value for money and it's Apple's marketing engine that drives this crap forward and what most of us are saying is that we're dissolution with the path Apple as a corporation are taking.
Many of us firmly believe this would not have happened during the Jobs era.
Possibly, but there is a more useful implication as well: Especially on the AppleWatch, it's one less "open door" for humidity entering the product. A "normal" charge connector is more difficult to protect (look at the ugly rubber flaps usually used for that). Besides the fiddle- and ugliness-factor of a small power connector on a product the size of the AppleWatch.
If the rumors about the next iPhone becoming more water-resistant should come true, I'd not be surprised if wireless charging would be one means to achieve that goal.
lol i learn something today (i'm french btw)
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Oh grow up, the Apple Watch is luxury product. Apple is actually still middle of the road with their luxury pricing.
With every day I'm more disgusted with dollar-store shoppers that call Apple greedy.
Understand the difference between cheap and luxury. Understand it already.
In a way, i agree with you because Apple can claim the luxury part for some point, but i disagree when you think about the main purpose of the company in its debut, it was to make technology reachable for everyone, now it's not really the case, it's really about making money (and you can see it with the latest Macbook and iMac, no risks taken)
But compare the really big purchases and their prices. The iPad Pro is more powerful and cheaper than Microsoft's latest Surface. The iMac Retina is unlike anything else available and cheaper than anything with a similar screen and internals (or if you try to buy screen and internals separately). The laptops have little competition when you compare form and power. (My Toshiba Portege costs the same as a comparable Macbook Air but has a much duller and worse screen. Also it is made primarily of plastic.)
The extras are just that, extras. They are priced to sell in small numbers based on convenience, consistency, and somewhat irrational reasons (once you've accepted you are paying $2,500 for your iMac, you just throw in the trackpad).
Lets get one thing straight. Apple Watches are not luxury watch products. They do not belong to the realms of high end Swiss and German watches. Not even close.
And while most of us are prepared to spend a pretty penny on an iPhone, MacBook Pro, Apple TV or even the obnoxious Apple Watch (the more I read about this stuff, the more obnoxious I think it is), what Apple cannot and should not claim to do is fleece consumers out of a lot of money for what is essentially a plastic piece of crap.
To suggest it has value because it has a flipping cable and magnet charger is total delusion. Just because Apple charge extortionate amounts for their accessories and they are included in other items does not give them value.
I wouldn't hesitate one moment dropping £1,500 on a MacBook Pro as I did 12 months ago. Or £700 on a MacBook Air as I did for my wife. I even spent £1700 on two new iPhone 6S's for the wife and I. These are genuine quality products that not only are built to incredible standards, but also have genuine value. This is the Apple I love.
This monstrosity of an accessory and pricing is just the worst of Apple and something that I fear under Tim Cook and key investors, will be on-going. Apple need to refocus and get back to its roots. They are head into the same direction as they were in the mid-90's. Too many products. Too much choice and a completely messed up product line.
How many sodding iPad's exist nowadays? Variations of the iPhone? And now a gazillion different Watch combinations in a product that will essentially be defunct in another 12 months. Apple Watch 2 is on it's way later next year. After dropping $10k on an Apple Watch, what will it be worth once the new version comes out? Sweet FA as the gold metal alloy isn't even pure enough to turn into something else and has to be purified.
Apple owes its success to its devout followers. Pulling out this junk is a total insult its customers.
Its a fancy charging dock. It also includes a $29 cable. $79-29 = 50, the same price as any other charging dock Apple makes. You've gone off the deep end with your rant.
Please! If your using SI Units use them correctly its [m] for Meter. M for Mega is the prefactor of 1.000.000.