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Holy crap, folks, this is a watch band celebrating a special event that promotes diversity, kindness and tolerance (among other positive values).  It's amazing how many people act as if this is the downfall of civilization.

Besides, here's some news: Microsoft is also in favour of LGBT rights.  So is Google.  So is Amazon.  If you're trying to find a major tech company to support that doesn't back LGBT rights... well, stop using technology, because you won't find it.

It's amazing how many people are getting hung up on "high fidelity" and assigning it more meaning than it has.  All it means here is that it's a smart speaker that can sound good, rather than adequate.  It doesn't mean that it'll replace your pristine-sounding $5,000 audiophile setup; it doesn't mean that music producers will be listening to masters with one.

And for that matter, too many self-proclaimed audiophiles deliberately interpret terms like "high fidelity" in a way that creates barriers and preserves that sense of being part of an exclusive club.  You're not allowed to enjoy the sound of a speaker unless it has this kind of frequency range or that kind of bass response.  We should be happy that the Sonos One is ushering in smart speakers that you actually want to listen to for music, rather than trying to find reasons why it shouldn't be counted as a good speaker.

grangerfx said:

That's a lot of money for a watch that looks like it is made out of plastic.
Here is what a white "ceramic" iPhone would look like.

Mind you, things change the moment you strap it on your wrist.  It's apparently very durable and should stay looking nice unless you have a really bad accident (say, dropping it from several feet up on to a hard floor).  My biggest beef: that white makes it hard to find a suitable alternative strap beyond what's in the box.

SpamSandwich said:

Sorry, but Samsung slavishly copied the iPhone for years and the entire category of "smartphones" (admittedly a "dumb" moniker if ever there was one) as we understand it today exists thanks to Apple. Samsung, Google and other fast followers are wannabes.

Samsung was uncannily close with the original Galaxy S and S II, and there have been design cues that have surfaced or persisted (the basic concept of a physical home button, the metal trim on the S6).  I'm not saying that there aren't conscious attempts to clone Apple.

However, it's 2016... not 2010.  The notion that every touchscreen phone on the market is an iPhone clone is just as flawed as claiming that every QWERTY keyboard phone is a BlackBerry clone, or that every first-person shooter game is a Doom clone.  At a certain point, you have to accept that a pioneer no longer defines the whole market, and that a once-groundbreaking technology is simply the lingua franca of the industry.

elijahg said:

lkrupp said:

Some consider the entire concept of industrial design to be a gimmick. A smartphone is a smartphone, a lightbulb is a light bulb and attention to detail and design is a useless gimmick. It doesn’t matter what things look like, just the specs please. That’s why we have Android, Samsung and Microsoft in this world. So yes, there are people who consider things like the white point, ambience, color and feel. Just not you maybe.

There's a bit of a difference between the industrial design of something and being able to adjust the colour temperature of a bulb. Attention to detail can improve the use of something, it's a necessity so it may as well be done well; the definition of gimmick is not necessary, but Industrial design is necessary. But spending $89 just so you can change the white balance of your lights? That's a the definition of gimmick.

It's overkill to some degree, but if you've ever been annoyed by overly harsh lights at night (or overly warm lights in the morning), it's nice.  I'd say you get the most value out of the full-fledged colour kit, since you can get that much more creative.