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Apple Watch Now Available From B&H Photo

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B&H Photo is now offering several different models of the Apple Watch, both online and in its retail store located in New York. Like other third party retailers that sell the Apple Watch, B&H Photo is only offering select Apple Watch stainless steel and Apple Watch Sport models.

With the Apple Watch in retail stores like Target, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, we may soon start seeing small discounts on the device. Each of these sites offers several other Apple products and they often have sales and deals available. With Black Friday approaching, it's possible there could be Apple Watch models available at lower prices.

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The site is selling four different varieties of the stainless steel Apple Watch, offering the Black Stainless Steel model with a Black Sport Band in 38 and 42mm configurations and the Silver Stainless Steel model in 38 and 42mm configurations with a Product (RED) Sport Band, the Milanese Loop, and the White Sport Band.

Several varieties of the Apple Watch Sport are available, including Silver, Space Gray, Gold, and Rose Gold models with recent Apple Watch Sport Bands in colors like Midnight Blue, Antique White, Stone, Blue, and Lavender. B&H Photo is also selling Apple Watch charging cables and offering standalone Apple Watch bands.

Since August, Apple Watch availability has expanded to Best Buy, Target, and Sprint and T-Mobile locations.

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Heh, that's a little weird, but I guess B&H Photo does sell a fair bit of Apple gear, and has in the past. For those unfamiliar with B&H, they are a fantastic NYC photography equipment store. They have excellent prices and shipping on camera stuff (better than Amazon usually) and I've gotten a tripod and several lenses from them over the years ordering online. I've been meaning to stop in there the next time I get to NYC, but I don't think they'd be my first choice to get an Apple Watch at.
 
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pat500000 said:
That's cool..............but not that cool. Maybe 2.0 version.
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I sure wish I could understand what you mean. I think that more sales is a good thing. Better chance of success. B&H is a great sales outlet. Reliable. Honest. What possible objection could you have to them selling the watch? The Apple and watch haters of course will find a problem with B&H selling the watch. Maybe now I do understand. Sorry, but I have to call it as I see it. Not meant to inflame, but then neither was the comment being responded to? Correct?
 
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Got my first iPhone that I'm keeping until at least iPhone 7. Been a Android fanboi for years and while I do still love "pure" Android I wanted a change up.
But where is version 2? The watch is over a year old now (when it was announced). No way I'm shelling $400 for old tech.
 
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I think I bought a Kuro plasma from this site years and years ago when they were considered one of the best TVs ever made. I loved that TV. And got a great deal!
 
SlipperySlop said:
I sure wish I could understand what you mean. I think that more sales is a good thing. Better chance of success. B&H is a great sales outlet. Reliable. Honest. What possible objection could you have to them selling the watch? The Apple and watch haters of course will find a problem with B&H selling the watch. Maybe now I do understand. Sorry, but I have to call it as I see it. Not meant to inflame, but then neither was the comment being responded to? Correct?
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He meant it's cool that B&H sells the watch, which portends B&H selling version 2. He doesn't see version 1 as worthwhile in his opinion, leading to the not cool. There was no objection in that quote, implied or otherwise.

Apologies to Pat if you're not actually a he.
 
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SlipperySlop said:
I sure wish I could understand what you mean. I think that more sales is a good thing. Better chance of success. B&H is a great sales outlet. Reliable. Honest. What possible objection could you have to them selling the watch? The Apple and watch haters of course will find a problem with B&H selling the watch. Maybe now I do understand. Sorry, but I have to call it as I see it. Not meant to inflame, but then neither was the comment being responded to? Correct?
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I don't think the poster has a problem with the watch being sold at that website, rather they are following the trend of users saying no matter what Apple (or similar companies release), they will not try it until a hypothetical version 2 of the device.
 
I can't wait to hear people explain again about how ever increasing retail presence is an indicator that the Apple Watch is doomed.
 
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cdm283813 said:
Got my first iPhone that I'm keeping until at least iPhone 7. Been a Android fanboi for years and while I do still love "pure" Android I wanted a change up.
But where is version 2? The watch is over a year old now (when it was announced). No way I'm shelling $400 for old tech.
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Eh, the Sep 2014 announcement was a preview of April 2015 tech. Now it is truly 6-month old tech, which puts it mid-product cycle. The addition of the Gold sport models was Apple's way of saying that they are sticking with the first gen for at least until the spring of 2016.
 
pat500000 said:
That's cool..............but not that cool. Maybe 2.0 version.
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The best thing about it, is that it's still not cool to have an Apple Watch.

Imagine, an Apple product that's not popular, unlike the iPhone that everyone has and likes to complain about the battery life, it's like the iPad that people don't use to take photographs or entertain toddlers, it's the MacBook, that's not being used to browse Facebook at every Starbucks!

It's the most un-Apple Apple product. And you still can enjoy it without your Android "friends" start a spec war whenever you use it!
 
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funnyboy88 said:
Eh, the Sep 2014 announcement was a preview of April 2015 tech. Now it is truly 6-month old tech, which puts it mid-product cycle. The addition of the Gold sport models was Apple's way of saying that they are sticking with the first gen for at least until the spring of 2016.
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Apple took too long to bring it out between announcement and actual release. It should have been released within a month of the 2014 iPhone 6 release or before 2014 holiday. And when the product finally came out it still needed more polish. Technology can't sit for months because of advancements in tech. The tech inside the watch is not 6 months old; it's closer to 14 to 16 months. Apple had already made the specs final in September 2014 and had the product in testing months before that.
The watch is not 6 months old.
 
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Zirel said:
The best thing about it, is that it's still not cool to have an Apple Watch.

Imagine, an Apple product that's not popular, unlike the iPhone that everyone has and likes to complain about the battery life, it's like the iPad that people don't use to take photographs or entertain toddlers, it's the MacBook, that's not being used to browse Facebook at every Starbucks!

It's the most un-Apple Apple product. And you still can enjoy it without your Android "friends" start a spec war whenever you use it!
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I guess it will never be cool.
 
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SlipperySlop said:
I sure wish I could understand what you mean. I think that more sales is a good thing. Better chance of success. B&H is a great sales outlet. Reliable. Honest. What possible objection could you have to them selling the watch? The Apple and watch haters of course will find a problem with B&H selling the watch. Maybe now I do understand. Sorry, but I have to call it as I see it. Not meant to inflame, but then neither was the comment being responded to? Correct?
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Your comment and mine didn't correlate. My statement was: It's just not cool yet to have a watch. That's my opinion. It had nothing to do with BH...actually i like BH.
 
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Is B&H even open now? It is after all the Jewish holiday season. I am surprised at the breadth of things they sell - I think they are more like Best Buy these days than a camera store.
 
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mtneer said:
Is B&H even open now? It is after all the Jewish holiday season. I am surprised at the breadth of things they sell - I think they are more like Best Buy these days than a camera store.
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If B&H is selling them it means that Apple is liquidating them. All these retail outlets are likely getting the Apple Watches at very low wholesale prices. I think it's obvious that Apple seriously over-manufactured the Apple Watch and is now in damage control mode. The Apple Watch was not just a flop, but a debacle!
 
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