[HN Gopher] Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch
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Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch
Author : ortusdux
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-10-02 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| pleb_nz wrote:
| I assume these are solid gold and it can be cast into something
| useful for many more years?
| worik wrote:
| I would prefer it if we could all just start ignoring Apple.
|
| Thank you
| chongli wrote:
| Easy enough to do! Just skip over the Apple articles on your HN
| front page!
| gorjusborg wrote:
| If you haven't already, I would encourage both of you to read
| the guidelines of posting here:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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| Specifically:
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| thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more
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| If you have already read them, treat my comment as a reminder
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| booleandilemma wrote:
| [delayed]
| jkubicek wrote:
| I doubt this ever mattered, especially to folks like Karl
| Lagerfeld, who never even set his up (or appears to have charged
| it).
|
| https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...
| demondemidi wrote:
| If I was worth what he is I'd be buying expensive gadgets on a
| whim every 15 minutes. Then just buy a new house when the
| current one fills up with said gadgets.
| sgu999 wrote:
| Well, then I guess we should be happy inequalities prevent
| one more person from wasting a tremendous amount of rare
| materials and energy.
| [deleted]
| SahAssar wrote:
| That's mentioned in the article.
| jklinger410 wrote:
| Apple is to servicing their hardware products as Google is to
| maintaining their software products
| [deleted]
| crgwbr wrote:
| This was a one off first-gen product that was sold almost 9
| years ago. How long do you expect them to keep maintaining it?
| At least no one is attempting to build infrastructure on top of
| an Apple Watch--that can't be said about google's services.
| expazl wrote:
| 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?
| mahmoudhossam wrote:
| Google's software rarely makes it beyond 5 years though
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| There's a story about this newly rich woman who is trying to
| impress her new friends. "I clean my diamonds with milk, and my
| rubies with dilute vinegar,..."
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| Finally, she turns to an older lady and asks, what she uses.
|
| The older lady just smiles and says that when her jewels get
| dirty, she just throws them away.
|
| The gold Apple Watch is a status overpriced, impractical good for
| signaling and technological obsolescence is not really something
| that a person who buys it cares about.
| lovemenot wrote:
| The purpose of these watches has long been served. They
| introduced Apple Watch as a premium digital watch to the masses,
| getting free media attention.
|
| Celebrity owners would have got a brief sparkle from it. Perhaps
| also some of Apple's marketing budget too. And they continue to
| own a legacy item which will have notoriety beyond mere function.
|
| Collectors of rare historical firearms presumably don't actually
| fire them.
| _3u10 wrote:
| They do, generally at least before selling it to prove it
| works, as a working firearm has more value than one than
| doesn't.
| nlunbeck wrote:
| I'm curious what the convention is for gold consumer electronics
| at EoL. Do you bring it into a jeweler and get the gold casing
| pried off and melted down?
| twoodfin wrote:
| I'm not sure it will beat the S&P 500 or Apple stock, but I'd
| bet that an OG Apple Watch Edition will hold its value better
| than the gold you'd melt out of it.
| surfingdino wrote:
| Ultimate planned obsolescence and an ultimate flex.
| SSLy wrote:
| People have repurposed gen0/1 AW's into mechanical watches with
| a bit square-ish case.
| Cockbrand wrote:
| I kinda expect a YouTube video to exist of a Chinese hardware
| hacker transplanting the Watch Series 9 innards into an
| obsolete gold (or better: ceramic) Apple Watch case.
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