i like the concept, played with them in store. But they should be standalone device, without need an Iphone.
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Apple Offering $50 Off Apple Watch With Any iPhone Purchase in Select Apple Stores
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Yep same where I am, people everywhere except the watch tables, it's like there's an invisible electric fence around those tables.
Apple discounting accessories for their products with the purchase of an expensive product? UNHEARD OF!
Oh wait, except when they used to give out FREE iPod Touches with the purchase of new Macs. The Apple Watch is an accessory to the iPhone, and Apple is giving a tiny discount on it over a 2 week period if you purchase a new iPhone.
Yeah, that must mean it's a major flop!
Oh wait, except when they used to give out FREE iPod Touches with the purchase of new Macs. The Apple Watch is an accessory to the iPhone, and Apple is giving a tiny discount on it over a 2 week period if you purchase a new iPhone.
Yeah, that must mean it's a major flop!
Stop saying you like it, we get it...
Others dont, you are clearly correct..
I want a watch that does "something useful" it doesn't do that right now (other than suck juice from the grid). i bought the watch, i have the watch I'm entitled to express my opinion and I'm going to keep doing it until either apple does something about the lack of apps and functionality or others stop buying it...!
Seems everyone here has lost sight of the fact that in order to get that $50 discount on the watch, you need to purchase an iPhone as well.
That will stimulate a lot of people want the watch, but weren't thinking of buying a phone, to end up buying both. An excellent win for Apple as they lose only $50 on a sale of both a phone and a watch.
That will stimulate a lot of people want the watch, but weren't thinking of buying a phone, to end up buying both. An excellent win for Apple as they lose only $50 on a sale of both a phone and a watch.
It reaches a certain point where people feel their lives are being encroached on rather than being made easier. The glasses, the watches, the idea of chips embedded in peoples' clothing or even in their bodies -- none of it will ever fly. I believe that most people do not want that level of intimacy with their technology. Especially in our current age of little or no privacy.
I have to think it is a test to see if people are interested. You have to think that iPhone 6s sales must be really hurting that Apple is willing to try to move them by discounting the Apple Watch!
That makes as much sense as the "Apple Watch failing" arguments constantly made here despite all of the evidence otherwise.
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People wear regular watches... they carry phones already... so naturally smart watches are the next big thing.
It's already big. The Apple Watch does more than the iPhone does.
On the contrary, what I want from the future generations of the watch is more health sensors. Let the watch measure my every single bodily function and report to me. That's what I want. I don't care at all if it gets more apps or runs without the phone. I always carry my phone anyway. Don't care if it gets more than 18 hours battery either. It's way to easy to snap that thing onto the charger every night.
I wish my iPhone had a battery life that came remotely close to the Apple Watch. End of 16+ hour day my Apple Watch is seldom less than 60%; my phone never makes it through the day. Apple Watch takes less than an hour to fully charge; iPhone, more.
So what else you have? Any real arguments?
This is no different than Apple offering a free iPod with the purchase of a Mac back in the day. This just tells me that Apple Watch 2 is the next big event. We'll probably have Apple Watch 2 announced in late January or early February in time for Valentines Day.
lol. No one is going to buy an $800+ device to get $50 of the watch. This just encourages people buying phones to also buy the watch
So they are trying to recreate the iPhone sales model by replicating the iPhone model with a watch?
Yeah. Right.
However you can't use that argument. Apple is counting on current iPhone owners to drive UP sales for what is basically an iPhone accessory. The iPhone and iPad were stand-alone items. If the watch was a stand-alone, then it holds water.
Yeah. If I'm honest, I think we need more than a year to see how successful this will be. We haven't even had a hardware update yet, and people are proclaiming the thing a failure.
Remember the keynote; this was hailed (and in periodicals and interviews) as the next iPhone level product. The next great "WOW!!" that Apple launched. Something we had to have.
From that perspective it is a failure.
As an accessory it looks to be doing okay.
If someone is on the fence about upgrading their iPhone (or waiting another year) and interested in a Watch as well, they sure will.
You posting the same thing over and over in one thread isn't going to make apple change anything anytime soon.Stop saying you like it, we get it...
Others dont, you are clearly correct..
I want a watch that does "something useful" it doesn't do that right now (other than suck juice from the grid). i bought the watch, i have the watch I'm entitled to express my opinion and I'm going to keep doing it until either apple does something about the lack of apps and functionality or others stop buying it...!
Apps are slow on it yes and it certainly has room for improvement but for me it does everything a watch should do par speed. I'm happy with it as are many others. You aren't and that's perfectly fine too
Ah yes, so much for the refined status Apple seemed to be aiming for at the beginning.
Maybe Hermes will give a discount on the Watch when you buy it with a Birken Bag? ;-)
Now that's a knee slapper. There's no one within Apple that thinks the Watch could even come close to the success of the iPhone. If they capture a few percent of the iPhone market it will likely be a success.
