This Apple Watch Ultra Ripoff Will Cost Less Than $50

[jlc1978]

Let's take another moment to consider that Apple is far clear of their own blatant ripoffs (sorry....'reverse engineering') going as far back as the mouse and windows GUI as created by IBM PARC, or, say, more recently, arguably the original Touch / iPhone vs the Palm TX.

You also need to consider the Newton predated the Palm, and IBM's Simon was the first touchscreen phone.
As for ZEROX PARC and the mouse, it was first developed at SRI with ARPA funding, and later work done at XEROX PARC. The work that lead to windows was also started at SRI.

My point: There is a difference between building on and improving an idea and just copying it outright in your own product.

 

[IIGS User]

Well, everyone knows Apple ripped off the chalk and slate to make the iPad and distance talkie thingie? The Phone?

Well everyone knows Bell invented that. At least he had the best bribes and lawyers for the drunk patent clerk who falsified the date of the application to steal it from someone else. And that Concorde? Totally ripped off the Wright Flyer!

The Apple I was just a rip off of the Typewriter.

Having good ideas and being inventive is one thing. Making things that work and are desirable in the marketplace is another.

I'm saving up for an Apple Watch Ultra right now. My Series 4 is getting a little long in the tooth. Novel concept, saving up. I took an envelope and started stashing my extra cash in it. Packing lunches and drinking office coffee.

I'm about half way there....

 

[andreiru]

shut up rip-off rumours and take my money! :-D

 

[SnappleRumors]

My question though is why carry so much cash? Please don't take this as a criticism, it's not, I'm just curious.

I apologize for the confusion but except for an about $100 in the car for tipping I don’t carry cash. I was only trying to make an analogy. Again, sorry.

 

[alexandr]

If you (or your friend ) uses the Apple Watch to just have a watch on your wrist that looks expensive and tells the time, then yes, your argument makes sense.
However, I use many more features of my Apple Watch like health tracking, notifications from my phone, even taking calls when I have the phone stowed in a bag or pocket. This might or might not work with the cheap copy, at least it's a hassle to have two devices with differing functionality paired with your phone.

It is my friend — as I said in a different comment I don't go to Canal st. for that) Yes, I use my AW for all of the things you just mentioned above. My comment was mostly sarcastic, especially since even the pricy AW Ultra still costs much less than a Rolex, but I could see someone like my friend, yes — my friend doing something of the sort.

 

[alexandr]

I apologize for the confusion but except for an about $100 in the car for tipping I don’t carry cash. I was only trying to make an analogy. Again, sorry.

Big tipper, eh!

 

[Techwatcher]

Shameless lol

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

Bought the kids an Amazon Fire HD tablet each for Christmas. Very cheap at £50 each.
You get what you pay for I understand. But the OS is so flakey. Apps (mostly games) often crash and freezes are pretty common. If Amazon can't make a rip-off OS, I can't imagine what these Chinese versions are like.
Left a review saying the tablet was good but the OS feels like it's still in beta, but now I keep getting Amazon calling me!

Install the Google Play Store on that puppy and unlock its potential. Not a great tablet...but it will run most Google apps well enough.

 

[GtrDude]

50 bucks and they are still making profit.

 

[ratspg]

Who the h-e-double hockey sticks thumbed this down!? 🥴🤣

That’s what I was thinking! Lol 😂

 

[vkd]

Its great that they can get similar products into the marketplace at such drastic price reductions. Whether this will affect Apple's pricing policy though is doubtful.

 

[PowerButton]

Imagine gifting someone this Apple Watch Ultra Rip off and telling them you got them an Apple Watch Ultra 💀

And then they go to the Apple Store when it breaks a month later only to find out what you did. 😂

 

[normwood]

It's nobody's concern but Apple's if they don't like it.

No. These crap bags stealing a company’s intellectual property should be everyone’s concerns. Stealing is stealing.

 

[alexandr]

Its great that they can get similar products into the marketplace at such drastic price reductions. Whether this will affect Apple's pricing policy though is doubtful.

Um, is that what they said about Graff rings after seeing one of 'em 25c gumball machine rings?..

 

[SnappleRumors]

Big tipper, eh!

haha. Valet, grocery kids, and car wash is all the glovebox is for. They usually get $5 so they might not think so. But I tip restaurants from my card between 40-100%. I used to dine out every meal so I’m a regular with people but since COVID it’s down to about twice a week.

 

[alexandr]

haha. Valet, grocery kids, and car wash is all the glovebox is for. They usually get $5 so they might not think so. But I tip restaurants from my card between 40-100%. I used to dine out every meal so I’m a regular with people but since COVID it’s down to about twice a week.

I think $5 is not bad at all for carwash/valet, I think a lot of people consider $1 a generous gesture And 40-100% is wow! Bet no one spits in your food

 

[Sandbag1]

Does make one wonder if this is a great place for Apple to be moving manufacturing too (along with that other communist run country south of China), what could possibly go wrong in environments like these over time?

 

[Sandbag1]

Other? India is not communist.

 

[jonnyb098]

What amazes me most in the discussions here is how even such obvious and blatant infringement on Apple's intellectual property brings out the haters spinning this to make Apple the bad guy.

If you think Apple's prices are too high, look for discounts or just don't buy the product.
If you hate Apple as a company so much, what are you even doing in this forum?
If you think the $50 plastic watch is in any way comparable to the original product, well...

Steve Jobs did exactly that in the 90s….but ok

 

[eveluvsrainbows]

Imagine pebble were making smart watches long before the first Apple watch. Now they are copying Apple.

not the same pebble at all, lol. Pebble was acquired by Fitbit and then ceased operations. This pebble is a different brand altogether.

 

[Mug_narwhal.0m]

There is no way this is legal

 

[daveathall]

I apologize for the confusion but except for an about $100 in the car for tipping I don’t carry cash. I was only trying to make an analogy. Again, sorry.

Ahh, I am sorry, that makes perfect sense now, went straight over my head, my fault.

 

[sirozha]

you get what you pay for ...

You sure you do?

 

[UK-MacAddict]

This is how much the Apple Watch Ultra is really worth.

 

[MyOwnDrummer]

Just so long as your MacBook Pro wasn't built before 2017 and the software you want to use is still available for that vintage of OS...

😏

Meanwhile, let's face it - unless your doctor recommends one to monitor your health, or you are doing some serious sports (remembering to not wear it while skiing lest it calls in 911 or a emergency tracking request via satellite), there are very few who actually need (versus 'want') a smartwatch.

I have one only because it was a gift when it was new (and at an Apple Watch Series 3, its like, sooooo obsolete).
I've tried to take advantage of / justify its 'features', and really, its just a spectacular piece of PT Barnum-worthy gimmickry that generates beer money for Apple. And when this device eventually packs it in (the OS already no longer update'able) in a little puff of smouldering battery smoke, that'll be it. No great loss.

A doctor’s recommendation is not needed to “need” one to monitor health.