I'll admit that his spiked bracelet is stupid looking, but hey, to each their own.
What I won't admit is that he "went for clicks with the unpopular opinion." He had positive things to say, and negative, and his views were fairly in line with what everyone else had to say. It's not exactly hard to see that the Apple watch is a solution in search of a problem. I said it before it was announced, I definitely said it after it was announced, and now that people have used it and posted their opinions, I'm still saying it. Just because he did too doesn't discredit him as a journalist. It's way too easy for people around here to believe that he wanted to hate it, so he did. Perhaps he's just not completely brainwashed to believe that Apple can do no wrong and he also didn't see the point? Then he used it and still didn't?
I like the Verge. I've always liked the Verge and if I had one complaint about them prior to that article it's that they're too friendly to Apple stuff. Now I'm literally seeing comments from people saying "Uh oh.. well, good luck getting anything from Apple again!" This ******** opinion basically confirms the notion that he had to love it, or else.
That's not really how reviews work. As any creative person knows, when you put your work out there to be critiqued, you've got to take the good with the bad. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and that's that.
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How exactly was I being supercilious? Everyone here seems to think that anyone who has money, just blows it without a second thought. I expect my money to mean something, and generally that is the case when spending large amounts. I don't think I'm better than anyone else - I just happen to be into fashion, and I like nice things. I'm explaining that to me, something is over off and odd here.
My biggest issue is with the Edition watch. I don't think it has any business existing, but Apple can do whatever they want. I don't think they understand anything about what they're trying to do here from the product itself, to the way it's being sold in stores.
But that said, I think Apple's making a mistake with their store strategy here too. People aren't used to making an appointment online to try something on for a specific period of time only to not be able to buy that thing in the end but instead have to go online and order it and you'll get it in a few weeks. I get that part of this strategy has to do with supply issues, and because a watch is a little different than wanting a phone you don't need to see and hold for a while first, but still, this is kind of a joke. I think they're going to find out awfully fast that they need to keep a portion of staff on hand to help anyone who wants to try on different watches and be able to sell it to them right there as well. In fact, I guarantee this is going to happen.
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He's not entirely wrong though. The iPhone was so drastically different from anything any of us had seen or used before that those video's also served as a bit of an advertisement (Wow! It can do that? That's so cool!). The watch videos were more like "Here's how to use our product that isn't terribly different from anything you're used to now"). Though I'll agree that the watch doesn't seem that hard to figure out. I'm not sure the videos were necessary.
