I didn't know that your mechanical Tag can receive email over Wifi, send music over bluetooth and gather health sensors... or wait, it can't
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Apple Watch Pricing to Reportedly Start at $500 for Stainless Steel, $4,000 for Gold
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I didn't know that your mechanical Tag can receive email over Wifi, send music over bluetooth and gather health sensors... or wait, it can't
Not forgetting the fact, the iPhone which performs 10 times the tasks is (depending on what model you get) at least a fifth of the price.
I didn't know that your mechanical Tag can receive email over Wifi, send music over bluetooth and gather health sensors... or wait, it can't
I got a Rolex that doubles as a fancy paperweight.
What the brandsters are missing out of this is that Rolex, Tag, etc. are all perfect examples of how you can convince people to pay loads of money for something that isn't actually worth it in parts and labor...
i.e. BRAND. And as brands go, Apple is the #1 admired brand in the world by measure of several surveys. So, they have a better chance of finding a market for that $4k watch.
Also, not sure where these fellas got their Rolexes but .... Rolex doesn't make a gold watch at $4k, haven't for years. Even the steel entry level Air King is now over $5k new.
Two tone GMT Master II? $10k
18k GMT Master II? $30k
Agree with your whole post, but please don't mention Longines anywhere near the other brands. It is not even close to being in the same segment as the others. Tag Heuer would even be closer.
The capabilities we know about so far are listed on Apple's web site. There may be a few more that will be announced closer to launch. But I'll give you a hint:
That's not a full list of the features, and shows you are either unobservant, or deliberately obtuse.
Longines is by far a more accurate watch and was for many years regarded as well above Tag Heuer and Rolex in status. You should read a little about their history. For many ages the Longines Admiral was more desired throughout Europe than the largely branding driven Rolex.
If you want to admire something about Rolex, I would mention the fact that it's wholly owned by a nonprofit and can never be sold to a for profit conglomerate. The proceeds after operating expenditures go entirely to the Hans Wilsdorf Trust charity.
They don't go obsolete also because Rolex refuses to advance their design, instead arbitrarily raising prices and using rather questionable tactics to terminate relationships with sellers who attempt to discount it.
It's basically artificial manipulation of the supply curve, rather than natural scarcity... you're being duped into waiting 15 years until the rise in your resale finally catches up to a break even point by which time you'd have had to spend several thousand more just to maintain it in good operating and cosmetic condition... paying for someone's $30,000 tech certification plus parts marked up to the stratosphere...
Hey, I really like my Rolex Sub paperweight! And if Hell freezes over, I can rtake my 10 year old paperweight down to the local jewelry store and sell it for much more than I paid for it. It would be interesting to have this conversation 10 years from now and see what a 10 year old Apple Watch is selling for....
Interesting, I guess the Longines line extends more upwards than I was aware. I have looked at longines repeatedly because their classical designs are quite elegant. I was however always put off by how little salespeople could explain about the brand. They also have a Nokia thing going on with too many different models in the line at the same time to assure (in my opinion) excellent product quality. Last but not least I find their marketing strategy questionable, when they are displayed alongside Ice Watch and TW Steel here in The Netherlands.
Of course it's not the full list. But the full list is pretty much just a bunch of stuff you can do with your iPhone, minus a few biometric sensors. Sorry, but that isn't compelling to me. I already bought an iPhone. But, by all means, knock yourself out.
Watch will surely disappoint some people. But it could still be a smashing success.
Maybe. It's not all that clear from Apple's Apple Watch page:
That marketing blurb implies the stainless steel watch comes standard with a choice of plastic, leather, SS. Now it may be that the one w/ sport band is $500 and the others are more. So perhaps I am inferring too much at this point.
Actually, thats a serious issue. Rado/Rolex hold cost for ever. Cant imagine the cost of Apple Watch 3 yrs down the line. I don't think they should release new model every year, that would further push the cost down of the older watch.
Omega suffered similar problems in the late 1970s. there was a fantastic case study in Harvard Business Review about 20 years ago or so, about how Nicholas Hayek revived the brand, partly by reducing the price spread of Omega models and leveraging Swatch to cater to the lower price market with trendier designs.
I believe Longines did this with Wittenauer but they haven't really returned to their former glory... something in their strategy is still missing.
As I said, I'll wait until the release and decide whether to "knock myself out", based on my own priorities, and not on yours.
I didn't know that your mechanical Tag can receive email over Wifi, send music over bluetooth and gather health sensors... or wait, it can't
And if he already splurged for a Tag, why would be care about any of these things if he already has an iPhone? Apple Watch needs the iPhone to be useful and then it pretty much just duplicates features, minus the health sensors. And I have yet to be convinced that the public cares about tracking calories and such. If they did, Fitbits, etc. would be selling like hot cakes. Instead, they are a niche market. Apple is entering a niche market with the Apple Watch and pricing themselves well above everyone else. It makes no sense.
I was never interested in the so called smart watch crap.
I use my old tried and trustee Omega watch.
It serves me well and it shows the time
For everything else, I'll use my iPhone, iPad or Mac.
So what's the point of having this bulky, 1 day battery life and expensive crap on my hand instead..?!
Not interested in health crap either.
I use my old tried and trustee Omega watch.
It serves me well and it shows the time
For everything else, I'll use my iPhone, iPad or Mac.
So what's the point of having this bulky, 1 day battery life and expensive crap on my hand instead..?!
Not interested in health crap either.
Yes. When that kind of price was mentioned coupled with my iphone 6 plus it sounded intriguing at least since I gave up on wrist watches and such years ago. But at $500 (if this is true) then I am out of the market and interest myself ;-)
