The gold Apple Watch Edition was a completely different luxury watch flex.

Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch::The original Apple Watch models, including the $10,000-plus 18-karat gold Edition that Beyoncé wore, are now officially obsolete and won’t get parts, repair, or replacement services.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    The irony of building something so expensive, opulent and heirloom worthy around one of the most rapidly depreciating assets you can buy (technology)

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      89·
      1 year ago

      I mean, a 17k$ (back then) workstation from the 90s would still be fine. People love their SGI and Sun machines.

      Not sure how much they did cost back then, I was born in 1996, but you get the idea.

      • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        A $17k workstation from the 90’s would not even be able to browse the internet.

        To put it in perspective, we didn’t even have multi-core CPUs until the mid 2000’s, a mid 90’s machine would have around 400 MHz on a single core and that’s being generous.

        • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m well aware of what these are capable of, these things are not bought for your Twitter and Reddit activities.

    • XTornado@lemmy.mlEnglish
      29·
      1 year ago

      I mean is at the end is a watch… at worst case the basic function will work. Although I admit that the battery is still a problem in this case. And that’s even if you look at the hour and isn’t just an accessory that you barely use it’s function.

      • FleetingTit@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Once the batteries of those things die (and they will die in short order) they are completely useless. Just small black bricks with a hint of gold on the outside.