Apple Stops Online Sales of Watches; Older Models Can’t Be Fixed (www.bloomberg.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Dec 2023 14:00
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Apple Stops Online Sales of Watches; Older Models Can’t Be Fixed::Apple Inc. has stopped selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US on its online store, just days before a ban related to a patent dispute takes effect.

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 22 Dec 2023 14:49 next collapse

Remember when they sell the 14 karats Apple watch for $10k? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 22 Dec 2023 16:50 next collapse

What does this have to do with the Apple Watch being banned from being sold?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 23 Dec 2023 22:53 collapse

because a 10k watch can’t be fixed anymore.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 23 Dec 2023 23:33 collapse

macrumors.com/…/original-apple-watch-now-obsolete…

That already happened earlier this year and is unrelated.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 24 Dec 2023 00:14 collapse

then by all means forbid it to be sold.

an unsupported product should not be sold.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 24 Dec 2023 01:38 collapse

Did you click the link?

Apple classifies a product as technologically obsolete once more than seven years have passed since the company stopped distributing it for sale. The original Apple Watch was discontinued in September 2016 … so the first-generation models recently crossed that seven-year mark.

These devices haven’t been sold in 7 years.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 24 Dec 2023 03:57 collapse

7 years is nothing for a watch (or a 10k watch for that matter), but lets gloss over this fact.

Tja@programming.dev on 23 Dec 2023 20:18 collapse

Yes, gold is expensive, more at 11.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 23 Dec 2023 22:53 collapse

and THAT is why smartwatches are stupid.

that and the fact i have to recharge it all the damn time.