Calculating Casios Never Lie © Robert Thibadeau 2020.

Apple Lies

Casio Tells the Truth

Robert Thibadeau
2 min readMay 3, 2020

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The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth? My Casio wins.

Thank you for the evidence. You call it fog. I call it Lies of Omission. God knows what that Apple Watch can do!

A Casio Calculator Watch keeps decent, yes not perfect, but decent, time, and reliably always shows it. It tells you the day of the week, and with a press, the date. And it calculates the instant you need it. Simple stop watch, Dual Time for trips. No secrets.

No fuzzy privacy problems. Nothing much to learn. And, at $14.95 per watch for 40 years, and still on Amazon…oops, it is now $19.76 on prime…, it runs for about two years without having to worry about power. Battery trivial to replace. I have had maybe 8 of them in 40 years. Always the same. Nice.

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-Mens-CA53W-1-Calculator-Watch/dp/B000GB1R7S/

I do trust Apple, the people and the company, but would rather have an embedded exerputer that won’t squeek, or look cool, but could inform me and authenticate me through iPhone apps when you really need a trusted multifunction supercomputer that lies justifiably. Alternatively, Apple needs to make a non-descript, two year recharge, “Watch Band attachment” for my Casio watch band :-).

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Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau

Written by Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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