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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple Watch: The Disappointments
Date: 14 Mar 2015 00:10:53 GMT
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On 2015-03-14, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <550364b9$0$27017$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com>,
> Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <mdvn7i$ho3$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > I have a Seiko Kinetic that winds itself.  I have another Seiko that 
>> > charges itself by ambient light sources.
>> 
>> I have a Swiss Army Watch, the battery lasts about 2 years. It's deadly 
>> accurate (once you set if from a deadly accurate source -- it has that 
>> "hacking" thing going on). I can go down to 100 metres underwater 
>> wearing it, if I don't stay down there too long. 
>> 
>> I also have 2 worthless Rolexes (trust me, there are such things) one of 
>> which was probably water*proof* back in 1957.
>
> Only two years ... that's pathetic. :-) 
> I think my Casio watch battery is claimed for five years and has
> actually lasts a lot longer than that.

I have you all beat. My steel sundial will last until Sol becomes a red
giant and swallows the Earth. Clearly this means the Apple Watch will
fail miserably.

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