The gold Apple Watch Edition was a completely different luxury watch flex.

Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch::The original Apple Watch models, including the $10,000-plus 18-karat gold Edition that Beyoncé wore, are now officially obsolete and won’t get parts, repair, or replacement services.

  • (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻@programming.devEnglish
    2113·
    9 months ago

    You know what? Good.

    If you want to buy something fancy you could buy an expensive “dumb” one that won’t lose its value in a year or so. It’s the buyers fault.

    Unless you want it for working out I find smartwatches stupid. Are you so busy that you can’t pull your phone out of your pocket?

    Edit: I take it back, yeah seems that there are some specific reasons like those below for wearing a smartwatch.

    I still find spending 17k in a luxury watch dumb, a Rolex (I have no idea how much they are worth) still seems better because it won’t lose it’s value like when the smartwatch OS becomes obsolete.

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      In addition to using it for tracking my workouts and bluetoothing to my earbuds, I also found my smartwatch super useful while working as a teacher for surreptitiously checking texts and also for setting timers

    • kamasutures@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      Mine are pretty specific but:

      1. I’m a bartender. I can get messages if the door person/security is having a problem customer while I am elbow deep in an ice well (plus phones are dirty so I’m not touching gross phone and then your lime wedge even if I am super religious about washing my hands with everything I touch behind bar.) I don’t wear it all the time but it is a useful tool.

      2. I monitor my heart rate cos I’m having health issues

      Butttt… I don’t feel bad for these folks, mine came with my phone.