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Even before they were unsupported, how have they not been “obsolete” for some time. Cannot imagine how slow a gen 1 watch would be. I can see the appeal of a timeless heirloom watch, but this is such a brain dead purchase.

The irony of building something so expensive, opulent and heirloom worthy around one of the most rapidly depreciating assets you can buy (technology)

The big luxury watch brands will service their watches for many decades; a Rolex will last a lifetime, if not longer.

For +$17,000, that shit better have a lifetime guarantee on it, though I guess anyone with $17,000 to throw away on a watch probably doesn't care anyways, they've probably forgotten that they own the thing anyways.

Honestly, good. Fuck the people who have this sort of money to throw away. They deserve it.

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.

I thought her fingers were her lips & chin

Oh boy, it sure sucks to suck.

I still use the original sport band from 2015 on a 7th gen watch, and it fit the 4/5 gen before that. Unless the gold band was non removable from the watch I don’t see the issue.

Also the fact that this was never publicly available means these were gifts to celebs for PR, ain’t nobody losing any money on this.

I had to look up that Apple Watch came out in 2015. I feel old...yet again.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

That ship has sailed; the original Apple Watches (widely referred to as Series 0) never updated beyond watchOS 4.3.2 in 2018.

It means the end of hardware support: the company will no longer provide parts, repairs, or replacement services.

When it launched, it was seen on the wrists of influential celebrities, including German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who, like Beyoncé, wore it with a gold link bracelet that was never available to the public.

Even folks who do drop five figures on watches tend to want something that’ll still tell time (and hold its value) in a couple of decades.

You could spend $10,000 to $30,000 on a Cartier Tank, still get a square watch, and not worry about whether you could get it serviced eight (or 80) years later.

As long as luxury watch manufacturers like Cartier exist (or Patek Philippe, Rolex, etc.

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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.

but why though? why would you do that?

I wonder if Cash4Gold would take them. Lol I remember seeing this commercial as a kid.

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.