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General rule of thumb of every new product announcement (not revision) is to always avoid buying the very 1st generation.

Android Wear is probably still stuck on 32 bit ARM and if this rumoured 'Google Watch' surprising becomes 32 bit, then that is an instant no deal.

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I bought the first Macbook Air 11"and it was pretty great. You could argue that it was a 2nd generation product. The first iPhone was great. And the Palm Pilot. Gameboy. There are always counterexamples.

that is some bs that you are spewing

Perhaps you should ask the first adopters who paid a premium for the Apple Watch Edition (Gold), Chromebook Pixel and the Samsung Fold to see if they are still using them.

What's worse is that first adopters are at the very start of the planned obsolescence process and even by then, the hardware/software is made completely useless as soon as support is ended unlike Windows PCs which are still useful after end-of-life.

Do you think it is worth paying a premium for the first edition of a un-upgradeable product?