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RUSH: Now, I know a number of you people think that I am in the tank for Apple. And I\u2019m not, but you think I am. The Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd routinely erupts in anger when I either talk about Apple or golf or what have you. I\u2019m not in the tank for Apple. But people think that I think Apple can\u2019t do anything wrong, which is not the case at all. I just happen to love certain things they make. I literally actively love certain things they make. They have enhanced my enjoyment of life incredibly. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not in the tank for \u2019em. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re above criticism, and they do a lot of things outside their area of expertise that makes absolutely no sense to me, some things they stand for and all that. But — (interruption) Well, that\u2019s what I was getting at. You know, I happen to know where my syllables are going. If you would just be patient in there and let me get — (laughing) “How about the new watch? How about the new watch?” <\/p>\n

See, I\u2019m not in the tank. I couldn\u2019t care less about this watch right now. Maybe in two years I will. I couldn\u2019t care less about it. Look, I don\u2019t understand the marketing on this watch. What I think doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019m just sharing with you my thoughts on this. They just came out with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, both featuring larger screens than Apple has ever made and those phones are selling like never before. They\u2019re even gonna have a record second — they still cannot make enough of those phones to meet the demand. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s never happened with any iPhone release prior. By the second quarter they\u2019ve always caught up to demand. They haven\u2019t caught up, they can\u2019t make their second — this is their second fiscal quarter. It\u2019s the calendar first quarter. They can\u2019t make as many phones as they could sell. They could probably sell 58, 60 million phones this quarter. Last year, the same quarter with the iPhone 5S they sold like 38 or 40 million, and they\u2019re on par to sell 58, 60 million, except they\u2019re only gonna be able to make 52 million. <\/p>\n

So my point is, they have these more popular than ever iPhones, the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus, because the screens are bigger. The display size is bigger, 4.7 inches versus four inches, and then the five and a half iPhone big boy. Okay, so in the face of all that, one of the ways — it\u2019s not the only way — one of the ways Apple\u2019s marketing the watch is to acknowledge that it can sometimes be a hassle to pull that big iPhone out of your pocket or your purse. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever a hassle. I love my iPhone. I would take it everywhere. <\/line><\/p>\n

There are certain places you\u2019re not allowed to take a phone. I sneak it in anyway. But the phone is not an annoyance to me. But one of the ways they\u2019re selling the watch is, yeah, you put our watch on your wrist and you\u2019ll have to use your phone a lot less. What, the iPhone is an annoyance now? The iPhone is a problem? I just don\u2019t understand this marketing. Other people fall for it, they think it\u2019s great. “Yeah, I really don\u2019t like having to pull my phone out of my pocket every time I get a notification. Screw that. If I can see it on the watch, all the better.”<\/p>\n

Okay, fine, if it floats your boat, fine and dandy. When I\u2019m driving the phone is never in my bag, is the point. Now, look, I can see there are gonna be use cases for the watch. I already told you on the golf course where they\u2019re not permitted to have phones, but the course is gonna ban the Apple Watch if they find out people are walking around looking at the watch the whole time. <\/p>\n

I have not ordered a watch. I\u2019m not gonna order a watch. You\u2019re gonna be able to make a phone call on the watch. Well, you\u2019re gonna have to have your phone nearby, so it may obviate golf course usage anyway \u2019cause you\u2019re not allowed to have, on certain courses, the phone. And if you can\u2019t have the phone with you at first you\u2019re not gonna be able to use a lot of things on the watch. <\/p>\n

Anyway, none of this is the point. I\u2019m just sharing with you I don\u2019t understand the marketing. Point is the New York Times ran a story. (interruption) I\u2019m not sacrificing my role as a leader of what\u2019s good tech. You\u2019re not gonna need me with a watch to tell you whether it works or not. People are gonna figure that out on their own. I am gonna be interested to see what kind of demand there is for it. That\u2019s the one thing I\u2019m not sure of. <\/p>\n

Now, Apple products have a sort of built-in — they have so much loyalty in their fan base that people are gonna buy it just \u2019cause it\u2019s made by Apple. But beyond that, I am interested to see how popular it becomes. But, here, you talk about absurdity, earlier today we had a story that the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in the world declared that the most discriminatory nation on earth against women is Israel because of the way they treat Palestinian women. I mean, it\u2019s absurd. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The same newspaper earlier this week had a serious story claiming that the new Apple Watch will give you cancer. It\u2019s journalistic malpractice. The New York Times cancer article is what everybody\u2019s referring to it as. An article in the New York Times by their tech writer, Nick Bilton. It was originally titled, “Could Wearable Computers Be As Harmful As Cigarettes?”<\/a> The headline was changed to: “The Health Concerns In Wearable Tech.” Really, the first headline of the story was, “Could Wearable Computers,” i.e., a watch — and, by the way, Apple\u2019s not the first with a watch. Samsung came out with one. Pebble has one. A whole bunch of Android people tried their hands at one. Apple\u2019s not the first. <\/p>\n

There was never a story about any Android watch giving you cancer. Now all of a sudden Apple\u2019s on the verge of releasing theirs “Could Wearable Computers Be As Harmful As Cigarettes?” Do you people that read the New York Times, do you realize how uninformed and ill-informed and misinformed you have become? There are people, the New York Times, it\u2019s the Bible to them. It is unchallengeable and this is the height of irresponsibility. “Could smart watches be raising your risk of cancer? Decades of research that could speak to the question.” But this guy at the New York Times ignored all of it. <\/p>\n

How many stories have there been about your cell phone causing cancer and then, uh, sorry, never mind, no evidence. Forget all of that. And now we\u2019ve got a story that the Apple Watch is going to cause cancer. It\u2019s as harmful as cigarettes? The strongest evidence that\u2019s cited in the New York Times story comes from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which announced in 2011 that it considered cell phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans, possibly, and that\u2019s the research used to form the basis of this story. <\/p>\n

The New York Times writer, Nick Bilton, mentions the International Agency for Research on Cancer announcement as the most definitive and arguably unbiased result in this area. It\u2019s not even a scientific result. You try to understand, okay, what\u2019s the motivation here, why in the world does the New York Times want to destroy Apple for? What did Apple do or not do to the New York Times to cause this? See, this is not a news story. It\u2019s not an article. This is a flat-out hatchet job. <\/p>\n

Now, as I\u2019m saying, I\u2019m not doing this because I\u2019m all-in for Apple, as I\u2019ve just told you. Right now I couldn\u2019t care less about the watch. When a new iPhone\u2019s coming out, I\u2019m obsessed. I want to know everything. I can\u2019t wait to get it, play with it, all that. The watch, it hasn\u2019t hit me that way yet. It may, by the time they get to the second or third rev of the thing. But, I don\u2019t know. A one and a half or 1.6-inch screen — he-he — after I have just been told I need to go out and buy this five-and-a-half-inch screen, I don\u2019t know, the marketing is puzzling to me, but there\u2019s no way that the thing can cause cancer, and I had to mention this. Because so many people take what the New York Times — if the Times is willing to write drivel and bilge like this, I think everything they write has to be considered suspect.<\/p>\n

These are the people that are biggest proponents of climate change and global warming and the dangers the Tea Party. It\u2019s rotgut. I don\u2019t know how a story like this passes the editors. Where is the common sense? And where were the stories before the Apple Watch was released? It\u2019s not by any stretch of the imagination the first. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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