Movie star Anna Kendrick managed to say something in a single tweet that instantly nails anyone who would buy a gold Apple Watch Edition: “We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 ‘apple watch’ as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.” Right on. Still, people who believe that a gold Apple Watch is an important status symbol aren’t the real problem here. The shallow stupidity that forms the core of people who live with thoughtless privilege isn’t what disappoints me with the Apple Watch Edition. It’s Apple.
This gold-coated watch is just like taking a standard family car and making the outer parts into gold. Still the same car, just no longer in the budget of the standard family. There is a reason the standard family has a standard car, and a rich person has a Ferrari: its what's under the hood.
It seems that two Apple employees almost got fired for saying Apple Watch Edition is not worth $10,000: http://recomhub.com/blog/two-apple-employees-almost-fired-after-saying-the-apple-watch-edition-is-not-worth-10000/
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Apple Sinks to Selling a $10K ‘Douchebag Detector’
Posted by: Chris Maxcer March 13, 2015 05:00 AMMovie star Anna Kendrick managed to say something in a single tweet that instantly nails anyone who would buy a gold Apple Watch Edition: “We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 ‘apple watch’ as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.” Right on. Still, people who believe that a gold Apple Watch is an important status symbol aren’t the real problem here. The shallow stupidity that forms the core of people who live with thoughtless privilege isn’t what disappoints me with the Apple Watch Edition. It’s Apple.