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This Apple Watch Ultra Ripoff Will Cost Less Than $50
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Whoa! That's sweet deal.😍 It would cost me more to hire someone to help me bring the piano home. I was gifted a studio piano--the smallest type of full size piano--and it took 3 us to hoist it onto my truck. It cost another C-note to get it tuned. That's with the drinking buddy discount.
Anyhow, back on topic. Never understood the appeal of smart watches. My Seiko 5--the least expensive of mechanical watches--tells time just as well and, IMO, more aesthetically pleasing. For $50, I'd hit the pawn shops for a old mechanical watch⌚.
Yes, it is $700 They might be able to put the price down, slightly. For $48 it gives you imitation.
Of course you are.I'm happy with my Walmart Wyze watch for $39. Does 80% of what I need and battery last over 5 days between charge.
Of course not. They’ll just counter sue for Apple dominating the Apple Watch Ultra market.
Maybe it looks like Apple Watch Ultra but doesn’t working like one. Probably even not water resistant.
I am old enough to remember when "pagers" first came out. Kids who could not afford them wore garage door openers on their belts. This is about the same thing.
Indian brand Pebble plans to release a new smartwatch that looks like a blatant Apple Watch Ultra ripoff. The watch has virtually the exact same design as the Apple Watch Ultra and even looks like it will be available with a knockoff Ocean Band.
Priced at the equivalent of just $48, the Pebble Cosmos Engage is obviously made with lower-quality materials than the Apple Watch Ultra. For example, the watch is advertised as having an LCD display with up to 600 nits of brightness, while the Apple Watch Ultra has an OLED display with up to 2,000 nits of brightness. Unsurprisingly, the watch also doesn't run watchOS, but it does appear to offer knockoff Apple Watch faces and features like heart rate monitoring, voice assistance, and Bluetooth calling.
Pebble already sells a copycat version of the standard Apple Watch and other generic smartwatches. The brand does not appear to have any relation with the former smartwatch company Pebble, which was acquired by Fitbit in 2016.
The actual Apple Watch Ultra was released in September and is priced at $799.
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But it’s not the pebble you’re probably thinking of. The legitimate Pebble was bought by FitBit. This Pebble rips off the Pebble name and the Apple Watch among other IPs.
I prefer cheap light weight plastic, hard enough to last for 3-5 years of hard use than stainless steel and cristal. When the battery is dying or the first "no more upgrade possible" message appears the watch is going straight to the bin.
Rolex was the first brand in using plexiglass for their watches, it was a huge revolution, no more brittle crystals for extreme sports (a bit more scratches, but who cares when your goal is to make you watch work no matter what are you doing?). plexiglass was very expensive at the time, so nobody complaint.
Now, plexiglass is cheap, but the quality and feautres are the same, much better for sport and "adventures than crystla, the problem is now a days is not saw as "premium material" SO! who cares! put a mineral glass in the Aple watch, call it Gorilla glass 5 plus Extra hard (just a name, throw it from 3 meteres and you will see the "5 Plus Extra Hard" where goes...)
So this days marketing rules, not quality. Sometimes they match, so nice, others, marketing wins.
Lower quality materials for a device that is going to be unusable and obsolete in 5 years, with no more software update and messeges like "please update watchOS to continue using this app or service" seems quite legit for me.
Rolex was the first brand in using plexiglass for their watches, it was a huge revolution, no more brittle crystals for extreme sports (a bit more scratches, but who cares when your goal is to make you watch work no matter what are you doing?). plexiglass was very expensive at the time, so nobody complaint.
Now, plexiglass is cheap, but the quality and feautres are the same, much better for sport and "adventures than crystla, the problem is now a days is not saw as "premium material" SO! who cares! put a mineral glass in the Aple watch, call it Gorilla glass 5 plus Extra hard (just a name, throw it from 3 meteres and you will see the "5 Plus Extra Hard" where goes...)
So this days marketing rules, not quality. Sometimes they match, so nice, others, marketing wins.
Lower quality materials for a device that is going to be unusable and obsolete in 5 years, with no more software update and messeges like "please update watchOS to continue using this app or service" seems quite legit for me.
Yes!! To your least favorite kid. While others get the real thing
Made of stiff cardboard. Watch faces have to be cut out and then glued in place...on top on the old ones...
Pebble Cosmo Watch in PFB37 Celestial Blue is not available to buy in the U.S. at least for now! Amazon India even with Prime, will cost extra for shipping when it is available for sale on the 28th!
I buying all four colors now at $48 each; why not?
at least for now! Amazon India even with Prime, will cost extra for shipping when it is available for sale on the 28th!I buying all four colors now at $48 each; why not?
I once bought a faux Rolex from a 'vendor' at Venice Beach for 50 bucks. It was cool for about 5 minutes. Though it looked legit (except for the fact you could see a hair inside the back case), it obviously didn't function like a real one. Who would want something that looks like an Apple Watch...with none of the functions?
If anyone wants a really nice watch, I’ve got about 20 Rolex watches hanging on the inside of my trench coat ready for sale.
I was once threatened to be sued by Rolex for listing a copy so close to the real thing I wasn’t sure it wasn’t. Had bought in Iraq during a deployment and listed on eBay many years later. Had to lawyer up and mail it to Rolex or be fined.