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Apple Begins Shipping Gold Edition Watches to Early Pre-Order Customers
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This is a brand new product category. There's no way to know if it's going to be updated every year.
Yeah, but you know it will be... Apple can't resist. Faster processors, better battery life.
Not necessarily. How often is Apple TV updated? Mac Pro? iPods? There are a number of products with longer than one year update cycles. We'll just have to wait and see.
Even if there is a version 2 next year, you can bet it will not come up in April - it will be moved like with everything else to the 2016 holiday shopping season - which means IOS 9, 10 and even 11 will likely support this version of the watch.
Edit.
9to5mac just reported that IOS 9 will be supported even on the iphone 4s - so this watch will be supported for a long time.
"He spends $800 on a freaking cell phone, so dumb, stupidity of our time. What a waste for something that will be obsolete in 5 years."
Why does that even matter?
You can spend a lot more on a private jet to NY, a suite at a great hotel and a dinner...and all of that will be "outdated" by the next morning.
This is what people fail to understand. Some of the people who can afford this gold watch lose more in Vegas.
Well compared to some people in third world countries that don't have clean water or a lightbulb to read by at night, I'd say anything beyond basic food and shelter is excessivemuch less the $349 sport edition accessory to the computer we carry around in our pockets.
Here's the deal: Everyone needs to stop telling other people how they should spend their money. Many well-off people do a lot of charitable work. Those who don't wouldn't have given to charity and would have wasted it on something else anyway. After all, expensive watches far more costly than the Apple Watch have existed for a long time. At least with Apple getting the money they can fund R&D for advanced batteries, electric cars and all the other cool initiatives they're rumored to be working on. They're energy efficient and doing more than most other companies in that regard. I'd rather they have the money to push technology forward than some stodgy old luxury company founded 150 years ago.
and you know that also means that you aren't required to upgrade at that point, right?
Or do people also feel they have to upgrade every time a new car, computer, TV, DVD player, toaster oven, weed wacker, light bulb, comes out?
It's not one of those versions that people would have an immediate need for. Mostly celebrities will buying it and they don't represent a large group of consumers.
But it would be a lot better if people give more of their money to charity instead of upgrading to an iPhone 6 or even a 5s. That would have a much bigger impact on charity than the sales for the Watch Edition.
I don't understand the reason to do a "metallurgical" analysis in the first place. Does iFixit really believe they are going to discover Apple lied about the gold in the watch? Is iFixit really the world's authority in claims testing? :roll eyes: Yeah, tell us how hard something is to take apart and change parts on and how to do it. Claims testing? whatever.
Will a $16k iWatch have enough novelty to appreciate at a rate comparable to an original Apple Computer?
Good luck... a fool and his money and all that.
Good luck... a fool and his money and all that.