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Apple Watch Launches in Austria, Denmark and Ireland September 25
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Outside of the recent Macbook Pro delay, that's the way it's been with most of their products for the past 15+ years. New hardware update annually. Even more so now with the OS upgrades happening yearly it gives Apple more of a reason to release new hardware.
It seems the Hermes edition, or perhaps the bands only, will be available in October.
http://www.apple.com/no/apple-watch-hermes/
When will Apple open Apple Store in Indonesia? 
And not only in Jakarta or Bali, please.
I'm willing to buy an Apple Watch Sport once it's available here.
And not only in Jakarta or Bali, please.I'm willing to buy an Apple Watch Sport once it's available here.
The Apple Watch is a very solid design. It will last for many years and will be supported by Apple way longer that most Android smartwatchs.
I don't see a second Watch coming after introducing the Gold one and the Hermes one. Watch 2 will come after 2 years minimum. Watch 1 is likely to still be sold at a lower price point after that.
I don't see a second Watch coming after introducing the Gold one and the Hermes one. Watch 2 will come after 2 years minimum. Watch 1 is likely to still be sold at a lower price point after that.
http://www.apple.com/no/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch
I think it will launch in Norway too, as soon as WatchOS 2 is released with support for Norwegian. This will probably apply to the rest of Europe too.
Heck, people are already speculating about the iPhone 7. One thing for sure, they're not releasing a v2 this year while they're still rolling out the v1.
The Finnish page for the Apple Watch Hermès claims that it's available in October. So I guess it's safe to assume the Watch in general will be available here in October, too. http://www.apple.com/fi/apple-watch-hermes/
Why bother living on an Apple website only to constantly grumble about everything they do? Get a life.
Considering the competition and the limitations of this model vs could have been done, I don't think so. The next one will 100% look the same, but they will add functionality and certainly change the SOC at least for the first few years.
When they are very entrenched at the high end, and the competition has basically given up the segment (like they have mostly for most Apple products, they'll stop updating every year. That could take 3-4 iterations.
Wow, it's September! Did someone at Apple forget that they hadn't launched the Watch in these 3 countries yet?! Ireland is especially surprising, given Apple have a large presence there!
A slimmer and more ergonomic bodywork would be on the top of my whishlist for next year.
And those aren't even the last countries. Finland and a few others are still waiting, but at least now we got some hope as the prices appeared on the country-specific pages.
You could very well say that about, off the top of my head, German. That's hardly any reason for Siri not to work with Polish, especially knowing that dictation works well, so it "understands" the words.
My guess is they'll have to implement it some way or another, notice that all the countries the Watch debuted in all have Siri support. Sure, it's easier to fit it in for English, German, Spanish, French or Portuguese as more than one nation speaks the language, but Denmark is a notable exception for example.
It's all a matter of economics, Apple must have deemed Poland "worthy" of the next wave of countries to have the Watch officially and offering a half-baked product that doesn't include one of the basic features would be a bust.
I'm also pretty certain, that by now most Poles who would actually purchased the Watch have gotten their hands on one by sidestepping Apple's channels.
So while it looks like Finland is also getting the Apple Watch in some not-too-distant future, the delay has been a long one and thanks to that I'm highly unlikely to buy the current generation with its rather expensive price at this point. For after all, it's a new product category from Apple and they often actually nail it in the 2nd or the 3rd revision. It's true that the update cycle is unknown at this point, but the insanely long rollout delay has more or less confirmed that I'm waiting for the second revision, just in case there's a similar leap as we saw between iPads 1 & 2.
Ireland is part of the UK well at least Northern Island is. I bet the people from the southern parts just drove North to get one
That is one weird statement. The Republic of Ireland is a completely independent country and is most certainly not part of the UK.
I agree. Considering the fact that only 7 of 28 EU member countries have it now and being optimistic I assume it will be available in Estonia (and other Eastern EU) in late spring/early summer 2016. Sadly gonna pass it as well as buying one that late feels like buying iPhone 5 today.
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I had a look at them when I visited Manchester, really tempted. Are they worth it? Does the novelty wear off?
Ha, I didn't even know it was not available in the country where I live. Thought it was an international release. Which shows how much I care.