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>>ortusd+(OP)
Apple is to servicing their hardware products as Google is to maintaining their software products

>>jkling+T6
I get that the luxury watch crowd will look at this as a failure because they count the time a watch works not in years but generations. But the Apple watch isn't that type of watch, it's a wrist computer. And from my perspective having gotten 8 years of support on a smartwatch that was still one of the early generations for the device type itself is pretty decent. How long would you expect them to keep supporting this?

>>expazl+48
Which is why the gold never made any sense. The rumor has always been they did it entirely because Johnny Ive wanted to make a fancy gold watch.

The writing was on the wall the next year when they dropped gold and there was no way to upgrade it.

It was clearly someone’s vanity product. We don’t ever know if they ever sold a single one. Sure celebrities got them, but did anyone ever pay? It’s possible the answer is no. We also don’t know how many they made.

It was a laughing stock from day one, even among Apple lovers (like me).