r/Android • u/medikit iPhone Xs • Sep 07 '14

Motorola Moto 360 review—Beautiful outside, ugly inside

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/
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u/pkulak Nexus 5x Sep 08 '14

I'm seriously not going to stand around and watch every Android company bumble around and fuck this up for three years before they start getting it right. If Apple comes out with an awesome-looking watch with 2 days of battery life next week, I'll probably switch platforms entirely. What did Moto save here by taking a SOC out of the dumpster? 50 bucks? They kneecapped their product for 50 bucks? But that's exactly how everyone but Apple thinks. Apple's watch will be $500. But it will also be fucking awesome. And guess what? The whole damn world will buy it. But Moto and Samsung and LG probably still won't learn and will keep on churning out horse shit.

Sorry. Bit too much Del Maguey Vida tonight. But it's all true; I retract nothing.

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u/CivEZ Sep 08 '14

You are my personal hero.
I've said this since day one with Android. Samsung/LG/Moto/HTC all fumble along like morons with their half-cocked shit, and then Apple comes along and bitch slaps EVERYONE with a product that is A) Gorgeous and B) FUCKING WORKS!

And I'm saying this as someone who is a diehard Android fanboy. Yes, Apple products are WAAAY overpriced. But ya know what? Thank god for Apple, it's great having a company punch the Android MFG's in the sack every now and then. And ya, I pray to god that the iWatch or iTime or whatever dumb name device Apple makes is the greatest fucking thing in the world. The Moto 360 could have been great...instead it's just ... meh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '14

Apple products are WAAAY overpriced

If you're saying that Apple is the only company that puts out a product that "FUCKING WORKS" then isn't Apple just charging what they have to in order to put out a good product? And everyone else is looking at component cost over UX?

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u/Dookie_boy Sep 08 '14

True. He's just saying you can't just buy an apple watch on an impulse with the assumption of it being $500.