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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.
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The big luxury watch brands will service their watches for many decades; a Rolex will last a lifetime, if not longer.
Rolex buyers are smart enough to not buy another if theirs breaks after a few years. Apple’s, not so much.
but why though? why would you do that?
If you’re smart enough to ask the question, you are not the target of this product
I wonder if Cash4Gold would take them. Lol I remember seeing this commercial as a kid.
It’s not really pure gold. So you’d get surprisingly small amount of money for “gold” watch.
Listen, anyone who had one could probably afford a brand new gold watch instead of repairing it anyway and doesn’t care about anything except as a status symbol.
On the other hand gold watches are the kind of thing that are proudly passed around as family heirlooms, only the trashiest new money would buy one every two years and throw the old one away.
And if someone bought an apple watch thinking it was going to be an heirloom, well, uh…
Ok, that just brought me right back around to your point. Nevermind.
Apple is a brand perfectly positioned at the intersection of clueless but snobby.
So Apple will no longer fix the watch that came out 8 years ago? I mean, how long should they have fix products for? You buy a $17,000 dollar watch don’t be surprised if the company that no longer sells the watch and hasn’t sold it in 8 years, won’t fix it. There are legitimate things to criticize Apple for. This isn’t one of them.
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If you bought a Rolex instead, it would have doubled in value in the meantime.
Why would you even buy an 17K Apple Watch? Just buy an actual Luxury Watch instead.
Oh boy, it sure sucks to suck.
I mean, Apple is currently supporting a 5 year old phone and it will probably be supported more years. Additionally, with last years iOS, they supported a 6 year old phone. So I don’t think support is an issue. In general, Apple supported the watch for several years. And the only thing they won’t don’t do is be able to repair it. However, since you want to talk about Google repair, let’s talk about how the Google Watch cannot be respired…by anyone. Literally if it breaks you throw it in the trash. So, maybe Google isn’t the best comparison.
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.
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
In the case of the apple watches, you’re right. Android watches are actually quite stylish, though.
