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Why did Apple call the iPhone watch a watch..????

kalik2902

kalik2902

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It's like calling a car with a cigarette lighter cigarette lighter and not a car. The iPhone watch is 99% not a watch and only 1% a watch. It's one of its less used apps and I already have a watch. It should be called a communicator or something better (over to your design people). If I was going to buy a watch I would not buy this as 99% of its functionality I would not use and would be a waste of my money.

Just a thought..!!
 
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kalik2902 said:
It's like calling a car with a cigarette lighter cigarette lighter and not a car. The iPhone watch is 99% not a watch and only 1% a watch. It's one of its less used apps and I already have a watch. It should be called a communicator or something better (over to your design people). If I was going to buy a watch I would not buy this as 99% of its functionality I would not use and would be a waste of my money.

Just a thought..!!
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Huh? Your brain cells must be working overtime...or not working at all...hard to tell....
 
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kalik2902 said:
Better late than Never...!!
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So Apple should rename them:

iPhone to iHand Mac or Hand PC
iPad to iTablet Mac or Tablet PC
:apple:Watch to Wrist iMac or Wrist PC

I guess you are requesting all TV manufactures come up with a new name since many TVs run Apps now. Also I often use toilet paper to blow my nose. Could you have it renamed too.:eek:

I vote dumbest thread of the month.
 
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Hmm.
Nothing defines you more than a desire to call products by distinctive, made-up names.
Well, I just made that up, as it is just my opinion. :D

You can use that name, or you can call it whatever you like.
I actually prefer "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator", but I'm afraid that won't fit on the back cover of the Watch
 
Because everyone has heard of a phone or watch.

And new technology almost always has to be compared to something people already know, so the mass public can get a mental grasp on it.

For example, cars were horseless carriages. Radio was a voice telegraph. TV was radio with moving pictures. CDs were digital records.

Thus a smartphone, not a "wireless internet communicator". A smartwatch, not a "wrist notification / app system".
 
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kalik2902 said:
It's like calling a car with a cigarette lighter cigarette lighter and not a car. The iPhone watch is 99% not a watch and only 1% a watch. It's one of its less used apps and I already have a watch. It should be called a communicator or something better (over to your design people). If I was going to buy a watch I would not buy this as 99% of its functionality I would not use and would be a waste of my money.

Just a thought..!!
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I somehow get the feeling that your thought is not thought through very well. Maybe you should sit down for a moment, breathe calmly, and then think this through again. Perhaps then you come to the conclusion that it is most of the time (bloody irony) a watch. It can do other lovely things as well, but mostly it is a Watch, a very precise one too. And as a very precise, and modern watch it is actually very good value.
 
Freida said:
I'm lost for words. Why in the hell is this even asked?
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Actually, quite a few Apple Watch fans here have made the claim that Apple "goofed calling it a watch", because the name leads to certain expectations... like perhaps having a round, always on, display.

So the OP and those other folks are thinking that Apple should've called it something else.

They don't seem to have any good suggestions, though.

I once proposed "Apple Amulet" but it didn't get much traction ;)
 
kdarling said:
Actually, quite a few Apple Watch fans here have made the claim that Apple "goofed calling it a watch", because the name leads to certain expectations... like perhaps having a round, always on, display.

So the OP and those other folks are thinking that Apple should've called it something else.
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Yet those same people didn't think the iPhone should have been called something else, since the name suggests something much less than a multi-function handheld device. After all, BlackBerry initially called its device "Interactive Pager" and it was later frequently advertised as a "handheld."
 
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Actually, quite a few Apple Watch fans here have made the claim that Apple "goofed calling it a watch", because the name leads to certain expectations... like perhaps having a round, always on, display.

So the OP and those other folks are thinking that Apple should've called it something else.

They don't seem to have any good suggestions, though.

I once proposed "Apple Amulet" but it didn't get much traction ;)
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There were square watches, even when you were young, so that argument is not really valid.
 
BSben said:
There were square watches, even when you were young, so that argument is not really valid.
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Yup, and they're still around if people want them.
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There were square watches, even when you were young, so that argument is not really valid.
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Yes, I know, and it was not my argument.

I was bringing up one of the expectation arguments that other people make, against calling it a watch.

Sorry if that was not clear. Sometimes I forget that not everyone has kept up with all the previous watch name threads :)
 
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kalik2902 said:
It's like calling a car with a cigarette lighter cigarette lighter and not a car. The iPhone watch is 99% not a watch and only 1% a watch. It's one of its less used apps and I already have a watch. It should be called a communicator or something better (over to your design people). If I was going to buy a watch I would not buy this as 99% of its functionality I would not use and would be a waste of my money.

Just a thought..!!
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watch
/wɒtʃ/

noun
  1. 1. a small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist.
    "my watch had stopped"
Stop your wankery.
 
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ohms12 said:
watch
/wɒtʃ/

noun
  1. 1. a small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist.
    "my watch had stopped"
Stop your wankery.
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Thank you! My head hurts from reading some of the insanity here and I wonder if people have nothing to do with themselves OR they come up with these topics actually thinking that they have a point? I hope its the first one and not the second one.
 
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