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Apple Watch for Sale in Retail Stores by Reservation Only, No Walk-In Sales

Jiz said:
Remember when Segway did this?
No no no, Cant buy it right now. Must make an appointment for e demo... then order......then wait......
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You don't have to make an appointment.
 
As a temporary measure during the first few weeks, I think this is overall a good idea. It will reduce scalping and it will reduce returns.

After say a month, they can return to normal operations and sell to walk-in customers etc.
 
Still hoping to see someone wearing a gold Apple Watch on both wrists in the first week.

Must win bet with friends and get that $17000.

lol
 
Jakexb said:
Let's meet back here in a few years once we see how the watch shakes out as a product. I predict your statement will prove to be incorrect.
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Even the mighty iPad is taking a hit and I find that product just as useful as a iPhone (minus the portability factor). I feel that the Apple Watch will sale initially only because it's a Apple product. Not because it's a good product.
I still remember standing in line like a fool for the iPad 3. No need because so many people bought a iPad and iPad 2 there was plenty of stock to go around. Even the scalpers were returning the tablets in bulk. Same will happen to the Apple watch as time goes on.
And that's what Apple is preventing people from doing; buying all the stock only to see massive returns if this thing does not sale. Plus it gives serious people a chance to actually buy one.
 
Is this thing really going to be that successful? They're right when the say that a watch is personal, but all the apple watches look the same. Changing the band doesn't make all that unique. It's also a computer device that turns obsolete in a few a years.. You can wear a rolex for 30 years and it would still be cool.

I just don't get it, I've only been critical of two Apple products before launch, this being one of them and the buttonless iPod shuffle. And we all know what happened to that shuffle. Shuffled away into the waste been of bad ideas.
 
Noble Actual said:
Still hoping to see someone wearing a gold Apple Watch on both wrists in the first week.

Must win bet with friends and get that $17000.

lol
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I personally would not believe people if their rocking a $17,000 first gen tech watch unless I see proof. It would be too easy just to swap out the guts with a Chinese knockoff case and band.
You already know that the Chinese are firing up the copiers and getting their eBay stash filled up.
 
I think it's a good idea to let people leave with a model and bands that they discussed. I don't know what the return policies for in-store purchases are, but I would hate to see people returning expensive black stainless steel models just to wear them over a weekend.

People got to be introduced, make a choice and stick with it.
Otherwise nobody gets what they want.

The iPhone had only 3 colors and I think that exchanges because of color choice were not really possible.

In short: I really like it.

Online buyers have different policies dictated by law. Therefore I believe online models will be "limited". Artificially of course ....
 
GordonGekko999 said:
All joking aside have any professional Apple journalists decided on a metric that will determine if this watch will be a success or failure?

Has any financial analyst put down a marker of the number of Apple Watch units sold by the end of the year?

I was watching one of the Tested podcasts, all four hosts agreed they could not determine what the use and need of the watch was but all four agreed they would buy one, these are the type of people that Apple can rely on and they must be in the millions.

My opinion is that technology is supposed to disappear as the advancements progress and this seems like a step backward but I never liked the Ipad and that sold over 100 million.
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Its up to 225M now (33B in profits, other tablets will reach this profit number in 10 years...)... But, seemingly its a "failure"...
 
Lestdog said:
Is this thing really going to be that successful? They're right when the say that a watch is personal, but all the apple watches look the same. Changing the band doesn't make all that unique. It's also a computer device that turns obsolete in a few a years.. You can wear a rolex for 30 years and it would still be cool.

I just don't get it, I've only been critical of two Apple products before launch, this being one of them and the buttonless iPod shuffle. And we all know what happened to that shuffle. Shuffled away into the waste been of bad ideas.
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Rolex's are cool? I don't understand the fascination with old-fashioned grandpa watches. Spend thousands for something that only tells the time and doesn't even change itself when the time zone changes, lol. SMH Talk about overspending on something that's underpowered and only bought for conspicuous consumption. If buying a Rolex or other super-expensive analog watch isn't that, I don't know what is.
 
Logistics.

I take it there are a few variations of the watch, and I assume that you order the band to go with it. It might not be feasible to cater to every combo for every store, hence order online, not buy direct from the store

Conspiracy Theory

You cannot buy it at a store as its a super premium, cool, high demand device, it's too cool to sit along side boring retail products, it's special. If someone ses you with one, they know it took an effort to buy it...
 
This whole thing is annoying me for some reason and makes me not want to buy the thing.

Apple needs to come out before the 10 and give exact details on how to make these appointments so that I can pre-order/make an appointment. I don't see why I need to wait till Friday at the crack of dawn to make an appointment. I rather just set my appointment now and be done with it and show up when my time is.

I know apple employees are going to be rushing us to make up our minds on which watch to purchase.
 
Of course you all know with will mean for pre-ordering at 12AM 4/10. This will probably make it twice as hard to get through the ordering process. Apple's servers will really get hammered.
 
laurim said:
Rolex's are cool? I don't understand the fascination with old-fashioned grandpa watches. Spend thousands for something that only tells the time and doesn't even change itself when the time zone changes, lol. SMH Talk about overspending on something that's underpowered and only bought for conspicuous consumption. If buying a Rolex or other super-expensive analog watch isn't that, I don't know what is.
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Rolexes and the like are just jewelry/status symbols, so talking about their utility makes about as much sense as talking about the utility of a diamond necklace.
 
QCassidy352 said:
Rolexes and the like are just jewelry/status symbols, so talking about their utility makes about as much sense as talking about the utility of a diamond necklace.
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You should gift someone a diamond necklace. This will teach you about its utility.
 
I'm taking a record of all the doomsayers. Once Apple watch becomes another success, we'll make fools of all your predictions. Just like we made a fool of all you who predicted ipad/iphone failures.
 
I will be skipping Apple Watch, just as I have skipped Android Wear. I am deeply entrenched into both ecosystems, so I will stick with Pebble because they are platform agnostic. I am looking forward to Pebble Time.
 
1080p said:
I will be skipping Apple Watch, just as I have skipped Android Wear. I am deeply entrenched into both ecosystems, so I will stick with Pebble because they are platform agnostic. I am looking forward to Pebble Time.
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Well, if you have an iPhone, you get the apple watch. If you have an android phone, you get the android wear. Very few use both(at the same time).
 
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