What I think of the new Apple Products

What I think of the new Apple products

 

The new Apple products are so overly expensive. Firstly let’s talk about the Apple watch, it is so much money that you could buy a small car instead. How rich does Apple think we are to pay £599 for a small screen on your wrist? And that’s just for the actual watch itself. Don’t get me started on the stupidly overpriced cost for the wrist band for the Apple watch. From what I’ve researched and purchased the most expensive wrist band for the Apple watch costs a whopping £1500 - and between you and me it doesn’t even look that nice. From what I have heard in Apple conferences they plan on not making the newest Apple watch compatible with the older model; what this means is that you need to buy a new £1500 wrist band for your £599 Apple watch but hey if you can afford the new Apple watch then you can afford a new wrist band. On a light note though, but only buy a little, Apple are planning to produce and market a cheaper alternative to this super costly wristband that you spent all of your savings on however, this may sound pleasing to some but I haven’t even told you the price yet. They range from around £15 - £30 which is kind of ridiculous. Fair enough Apple want to squeeze every last penny out of you but if you think about it this way. If you bought a new phone how would you feel if you had to buy the charger separately?

And that’s my point surely Apple should at least give you a complimentary wrist band and a letter that should say “thank you for wasting your money on our overpriced watch, here’s a free wrist band that may or may not snap at any point so you will have to buy another one from our shop J” 

The next thing I want to talk about is the Apple pencil. I’ll say it again, Apple Pencil. It’s a pencil, for the iPad. Does anyone else hear those words, they really don’t work well in a sentence. It’s like saying chocolate and fish in the same sentence!! It doesn’t work well. In the beginning of Apple, Steve Jobs announced that they would never release an Apple stylus because it was useless and not needed. But look what’s happened now.

“The Apple Pencil gives you a variety of tools in a single instrument. You hold it, but it doesn’t hold you back” but it’s just a pencil. Ok I can see why it may be a good idea (if you’re an artist) but other than being an easier way to draw on the iPad I can’t find any other helpful use for it. Apple have been debating on selling these “pencils” for around £526! And that’s just for a 32GB one, the prices just get higher and higher with a 128GB costing you around £624.7 with that money you could literally buy a decent sized computer plus the mouse and keyboard but remember, this is Apple we are talking about. Fair play to them Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, the world's largest technology company by total assets, and the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. But I feel like that The Apple pencil was a bad idea to start. Before you start telling me, yes I have seen the reviews and do you know what I am quite impressed. The 15 second charge from your phone will get you 30 minutes of use. That is some next gen technology there but what I don’t get is why they don’t start putting these into phones and other devices that would make everyone’s day a whole lot easier. While we’re on the subject of charging here is what I think is a really bad design flaw. The apple pencil is around 12.9inches and let’s say you charge it on your iPhone 5s (4.87inches) I’m no maths genius but even I can tell that it is going to be one long connection, even though you are charging for around 15 seconds it only takes one swift karate chop or a little nudge from a passer-by and the connection is broken leaving you with a useless piece of plastic and possibly even a broken phone.