Written by Joey Peters
1. The price is outrageous. You’re basically paying for a $80 charger when they have already supplied you with one. Are you seriously going to buy this instead of just a regular charger? It may look cool but it is totally unnecessary but then if you’re rich, and you have the money for it, you buy it because you have nothing else to spend your money on. I’m not going to go over to a friends house and be like, “WOW, You have the Apple Watch Dock!” It might be cool in theory but I don’t see very many buying an overpriced charger (even though people do it all the time).
2. One reason why you should never buy the new Apple Watch dock is that it looks just so weird. When it is sitting there on your nightstand, it looks like some kind of panic button for your security system, or like a nightstand smoke detector. I know that Apple is known for their “space age” design, but this is a little weird. It is also WAY to large. Half of the space is not used, because the watch only sits on half of the side of the circle.
3. The competition out there against Apple is huge. Everyone wants to be like them because they have a lot of money. Tons of people are buying iPhones everyday. Lots of companies have already have sold docks for the Apple Watch for a long time. Apple just released their “official” dock and people trust Apple so why would you buy a third party dock when Apple has one of their own. It’s all about the money. I’m surprised nobody has made a knock off Apple Pencil.
4. Apple really does love themselves. Just look at iOS. You can’t even set a default browser. So you are forced to open links in that safari thingy. Same with the dock. Apple will sell this dock exclusively at Apple stores, and not even mention the 3rd party docks and chargers. This thing will probably be the only Apple Watch charger that people know exist. And, like mentioned before, that’s just more money going into the pile, and more money that is leaving your pockets.
5. Okay, take a good hard look at it. Do you notice anything? If you haven’t noticed yet, then you need to get some glasses, and if you already have glasses, then you need to get even stronger ones. The operation of this thing is really weird. It might be clean and simple but it’s still is a weird Apple product. Now don’t get me wrong, this is good looking but weird at the same time. The way you can flip up the charger thing looks like it can get damaged pretty easily. Looks like you can just snap it right off if you put it in a weird position, and uh oh, there goes your $80.