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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple Watch
Date: 12 Apr 2015 00:22:42 GMT
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On 2015-04-11, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <mg9s1j$75q$1@news.albasani.net>,
>  AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I ordered my Apple Watch a couple of minutes after midnight, PDT, and 
>> was informed I should receive it in the second half of May. I will check 
>> out its avatar at an Apple store in the meantime.
>
> You know, if you'd bought a Rolex Red Submariner in 1968 (say) it would 
> be worth about $20000 today. And Rolex "support" it (meaning you can get 
> it serviced at a Rolex Genius Bar) and it's almost 50 years old. Apple 
> don't have a reputation for maintaining their hardware beyond about 6 or 
> 7 years (look at the very expensive Mac Pro 1,1). 

Technology stands still for no-one. Nature of the beast. Without
innovation and progress, there would be no technology. Some find it hard
to understand that to fight it is to kill it. 

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