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Apple Reportedly Weighing $400 Price Range for Upcoming Wearable Device
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Well, I once saw a kid on the tram, talking loudly on the phone about some awesome party he went to last weekend... and then the phone rang.
The paramount reason for the steep price is that it's designed to withstand the ice bucket challenge.
around $400 would be actually very cheap for what it is
everybody believes that it's expensive
but for frequent runners, bikers, scuba divers or other athletes, look at the sport watchs (brands like Suunto), good models are selling for at least $350-400 with no touch screen or advanced features like expected on a connected watch
everybody believes that it's expensive
but for frequent runners, bikers, scuba divers or other athletes, look at the sport watchs (brands like Suunto), good models are selling for at least $350-400 with no touch screen or advanced features like expected on a connected watch
apples to rolex
You are right, we don't know what the device will do and I will probably end up buying one. However, we also know that no matter what the iWatch does, it will be worth absolutely nothing in 7-8 years. My 20+ years old steel Rolex (got it from my grandfather) is worth at least $1500.
You are right, we don't know what the device will do and I will probably end up buying one. However, we also know that no matter what the iWatch does, it will be worth absolutely nothing in 7-8 years. My 20+ years old steel Rolex (got it from my grandfather) is worth at least $1500.
If you look at the Suunto dive watches they are around £1000.
What I would like to see in the iWatch is a range of different sensors catering for different needs for sports activities. image being apple to download an app (if the watch would except apps) for your specific sport, example, today I'm going diving, I download an app say from Suunto along the lines of their D series dive computers, I now have a full blown dive computer on my iWatch. Also if the iWatch is bluetooth enabled you could have a bluetooth sensor connected to your regulator to read tank pressure, wouldn't that be fantastic all that information on your iWatch, which then could sync to you iPad, Mac, etc. to keep a logbook record.
That is only one example, I'm looking forward to seeing what the iWatch can actually do.
Could charge $1000 and some people would buy it.
People seem to forget Apple creates "luxury" items. If you want something that is a good value look somewhere else. If you want well built yet overpriced for status Apple is your brand. Not an Apple hater just how it is (I own apple products and even stock) just stating how I see it.
People seem to forget Apple creates "luxury" items. If you want something that is a good value look somewhere else. If you want well built yet overpriced for status Apple is your brand. Not an Apple hater just how it is (I own apple products and even stock) just stating how I see it.
Okay. Well let's just say then, for that price, it better make the bloody tea, too.
Of course it has to be twice as expensive as the competition. Otherwise we won't know that it is superior 
What a ridiculous thing to say. Of course it is faster to look at your wrist than to reach into a pocket and turn on a phone screen.
Of course it has to be twice as expensive as the competition. Otherwise we won't know that it is superior
2x as expensive? What are you comparing it to?
A no screen Jawbone?
An e-ink dorky (and cheap) looking Pebble?
The Galaxy Gear 2 is $299, so that can't be it.
The Garmin FR620 GPS watch is $400 w/o heart monitor or $450 with, so that's no it either.
What Apple watch competitor is $200 for the same functionality (we've heard will be packed into the device) and looks like an Apple product you wouldn't be embarrassed to wear outside of daily exercise?
I, too, have been wearing a Rolex (GMT Master) that I bought in 1986 and I sure hope to pass it on to my oldest grandson. I only wonder if he will wear it!
If the iWatch really will do all the stuff it is assumed it does, will it completely redefine what we expect from a wrist wearable device? I am assuming that most people will only wear one wrist device. I agree with those who think this might do to watches what the iPhone did to cell phones, which is to completely redefine the category. Maybe it will not, and just be a gimmick, but if it does, the GMT Master is going in the drawer with my old Vietnam War Glycine Airman.
Maybe the first iWatch will NOT be worthless in 20 years...I sure wish I still had my old IBM PC! I bet it would draw a few bucks as an antique!
It's sure going to be interesting to see what happens!
Worthless? Like the Garmin FR610 is now? No. That's still a great GPS watch, not obsolete anymore than the iPhone 5 will be on Sep 10.
No thanks ^_^
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Then again, that's exactly what I thought about the iPod.. and the (original) iPhone... boy was I wrong =/
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You know, there's truth to that.
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Most hideous mockup yet lol. It would sell extremely well at $99 - $149, not $400
Then again, that's exactly what I thought about the iPod.. and the (original) iPhone... boy was I wrong =/
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You know, there's truth to that.
He will if he has any taste and class. A lot of millennials still hold the tradition of looking sharp.
No they don't
But this is their "Clever bit of marketing"
They make you THINK they are.
Apple is no a luxury brand, it's a mass market brand at the higher end of the mass market bracket.
Apple do not want to be a proper luxury brand as they want to sell the the tens/hundreds of millions worldwide and that goes against the whole concept of a luxury item.
If I spend a LOT on a luxury item, I don't want to see everyone around me with one and kids in the school with one also. That's not why you buy overpriced/expensive items.
Again, Apple's skill is making people thing, because of design and clever marketing and keeping things tight and working together that you are buying something special, when in fact you are buying something everyone else has.
I think Smartwatches in some form will take off, it has to happen, and will happen, like many things, it just takes time for the technology to catch up to the dream.
May be another 10 even 20 years before it's possible and settled down.
How can you put a price tag on something when you don't know what that something is? Heck we don't even know that it will be called "iWatch".
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Kara Swisher tweeted that they have more "leaks" coming. Referenced payments so my guess is Apple will be announcing something about mobile payments on 9.9.
