The $10,000-plus golden Apple Watch is now “obsolete,” according to Apple - ArsTechnica
The $10,000-plus golden Apple Watch is now “obsolete,” according to Apple - ArsTechnica
The point of it was never how it worked. Now it will struggle to work at all.
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Or you can simply keep it on your wrist as a reminder of the inexorable march of time, the importance of punctuality, and the genius of so many tiny mechanical pieces working together toward one simple but crucial function.
After that, you'd have "an exclusive, dedicated Apple Watch Edition phone line for two years of 24/7 technical support," according to a report by Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac.
Ars' Andrew Cunningham made appointments to try on both the regular and Edition models at New York City Apple Stores shortly before their launch.
Ars commenters on that post and others related to the Apple Watch and its beyond-luxurious Edition model went back and forth trying to figure out the reason the latter existed.
The $10,000 Edition was the same exact hardware as a $350 Space Gray model, just with precious metals and global wealth concentration attached.
Luxury goods are meant to stay timeless, which is hard to achieve when a gold watch needs a specific version of Bluetooth to connect to a certain range of iPhones, with parts that are offered for seven years and are unlikely to be in demand much after.
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