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1. When talking about watches, advertisers tend to go past the basic function
of just ”knowing what time it is” and dive further into more tech capable
tasks that a watch can accomplish, say, for example, measuring your heart
rate whilst doing some kind of intensive work or being under pressure.
Smart watches nowadays are advertised as health monitoring products, but
they can even be used for calls or controlling the music in your expensive
airpods.
2. Primary focus of a watch should be the IPS water resistance rating, a piece of
tech is situated right on your (left?) wrist, so you’re prone to splash some
water around and, eventually, on the watch. Next on the list is probably the
quality of the materials, hardness and overall structural integrity. You can’t
have your watch rust away, or the bands snap at the slightest tension. Some
watches even come with level 8 or 9 hardness rated sapphire-coated glass
which is scratch resistant to the majority of external factors. If we’re talking
about smart watches then the software also takes a big part in the whole
package. Some manufacturers make proprietary software for their products
whilst others base theirs on widely available operating systems (WearOS
from Google which is publicly available and WatchOS from Apple, which is,
you guessed it, proprietary - just like all their goddamn things).
3. As noted in the previous response, the differences in prices come (generally)
from making one or more compromises in one of these areas. They might
not necessarily be called compromises, but you gotta take from somewhere
to improve elsewhere if you’re on a budget.
4. Something “water-resistant” is, just as it implies, resistant to water, but
it’s not qualified to be used exclusively in water. Most devices that have an
IPS water resistance rating are advertised as functional in waters up to 4
meters deep, but that doesn’t make them waterproof. Waterproof is used on
things that water doesn’t even get the chance to run rampage on their
precious small circuits, the water particles not even penetrating the other
material’s particles. There was a term, oh, yeah, impermeable. Where
there’s water, there’s always corrosion, although some materials are made
to handle it better than others.

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1. My boi Tom is talking like he’s being strangely unaware of the ubiquity of
advertisers running their mouths off about using whatever grated kind of
materials. That’s happening everywhere and anywhere and it’s awfully
obvious when somebody’s mentioning “NASA INTERSTELLAR RATED
STEEL EVEN WORKS IN A VACUUM” for an RC Plane for example. Same
thing happening here, using “submarine steel” for a goddamn watch.
Exotic-sounding materials are only suitable for their exotic purposes.
Ordinary people looking to buy a watch for diving probably won’t be
thinking about the coating on their next submarine. Anyways, the things
described here are not up to date with the tech industry in 2020, because, in
the past few years marketing has definitely became something else than
what we were used to when watching teleshopping back in the day. After
searching for this Cambridge book on Google it seems like it was originally
published in 2008, aka the teleshopping days, (just one year after the release
of the first iPhone, so, for a matter of fact, touchscreens are something this
book doesn’t comprehend but they’re part of our daily lives now) - meaning
that I can’t be bothered matching up and differentiating marketing facts
because that would become a History class and not an English class. I know
that the book is meant to be used as a tool for studying English and not facts,
but, hey, I’ve gone past that quite some time ago. It’s come to the point
where everything that I read, being it in English or what not, is digested
instantly by the brain and discussing points over a Word document is rather
unpleasant, so I’m going to stop here. I’m open to discussion and not even
that lazy, but typing on a keyboard is quite tiresome for the amounts of
things I have in mind (which go beyond the point of exercises, but this point
that I’m making right now has already gone far and beyond submarine
steel). As a matter of fact, I wasn’t going to submit any homework, but the
nostalgia of writing useless bits of information to my English teacher is
something that hit me recently. I see it as a way of “breaking the habit” (if
that’s even a real expression and not just a song title), and taking a step back
from the usual. Having charming English teachers starting from middle
school up to university must be amazing luck.