09-09-2014, 11:14 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
It is unclear from today's presentation whether the software that runs this device is upgradable; whether it is or it isn't, however, obsolescence is guaranteed:
EIther way, this translates into the purchase of a new AppleWatch every few years if you want to use it for anything more than telling time - good for Apple's bottom line, expensive for the collective bottom line of its customers.
- If the software is upgradable, than eventually the computing power required to run the upgraded software will outstrip the ability of the hardware built into the watch to run the software, just as it has with every PC, Mac, iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad ever sold
- If the software is not upgradable, than eventually the watch will be rendered obsolete as advances in technology and standards leave the watch and its capabilities behind
The Apple Watch is not a watch, the Apple iPhone is not a phone. They are computers.
If they were watches or phones, they would tell time and make calls, respectively. That's it.
These things are computers and as such have built in obsolescence as they are hideously complicated and part of a sector of rapid technological improvement. They just happen to fit in your pocket and on your wrist where those other one-use devices also can live. They build in those basic functions (to eliminate redundancy) into the computer, whose computing functions you're really buying.
If you don't need a computer and it's associated drawbacks in your pocket or on your wrist, then don't buy these things.