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Apple Watch Pricing to Reportedly Start at $500 for Stainless Steel, $4,000 for Gold
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Your type went out of the majority demographics when the Apple ][ was discontinued.
Everybody who thinks $4000'is a lot of money for a watch has not ( or owns) a quality high end watch! I don't know if this is high quality until it comes out but the average watch made by quality Jewelers are around that price to start and can easly go to 30-50 thousand and that's not their top end watches either! Breitling, Rolex,A Lange and Sohne, Alain Silberstein, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Breguet, Franck Muller, JLC, Parmigiani, Patek Phillipe, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron Constantin starting at $5,000 for Steel models
starting at $10,000 for Gold on a leather strap
starting at $20,000 for Gold on a Gold bracelet
with the sky as the limit. Some watches can exceed $2,000,000.
Soooooo, Apples top of their line?.... CHEAP!!!!!!
Outselling Apple, everyone outsells, Apple straight to the poorhouse... The plan of a business is making money, not outselling the competition. If you can outsell them and make a lot of money, bravo to you... That probably means your in a monopoly position though
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Well that's one way to build Apple's legendary cash stockpile. Take the Apple branding and extend it to a market where people are used to spending a lot of money for quality.
As someone who is perfectly fine with a Fossil watch over any of the overpriced fancy watches that look virtually the same to me, count me out of the
Watch game.
As someone who is perfectly fine with a Fossil watch over any of the overpriced fancy watches that look virtually the same to me, count me out of the
Watch game.It's good to be the king.
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Well that's one way to build Apple's legendary cash stockpile. Take the Apple branding and extend it to a market where people are used to spending a lot of money for quality.
As someone who is perfectly fine with a Fossil watch over any of the overpriced fancy watches that look virtually the same to me, count me out of the
Hell, Pebble is where it's at for low end smart-watches. Easy to code in C.
This is a good point. Apple will probably wreck the value of the original watch with a second model.
I'm sure the battery can be swapped out in one of these watches somehow....
I thought the whole internals are covered in resin.
for 4000k, you better be able to replace the internals.... but with more sensors on the way.... I don't know... This rumor just doesn't make any sense!
I thought the whole internals are covered in resin.
for 4000k, you better be able to replace the internals.... but with more sensors on the way.... I don't know... This rumor just doesn't make any sense!
Everybody who thinks $4000'is a lot of money for a watch has not ( or owns) a quality high end watch! I don't know if this is high quality until it comes out but the average watch made by quality Jewelers are around that price to start and can easly go to 30-50 thousand and that's not their top end watches either! Breitling, Rolex,A Lange and Sohne, Alain Silberstein, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Breguet, Franck Muller, JLC, Parmigiani, Patek Phillipe, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron Constantin starting at $5,000 for Steel models
starting at $10,000 for Gold on a leather strap
starting at $20,000 for Gold on a Gold bracelet
with the sky as the limit. Some watches can exceed $2,000,000.
Soooooo, Apples top of their line?.... CHEAP!!!!!!
You are right. I have worn watches on my wrist in San Francisco clubs that are worth more than houses in the mid-west. Swiss watch makers love their Scotch!
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And when they profit from it, more like the end of your cellar-dweller lifestyle.
I think the gold model will be huge in Asia gold is way more trendy and more of a status symbol over there
Easy, someone for whom money has no real meaning.
There are people out there that will spend thousands of dollars to sit at a table in a club and be served a couple of hundreds of dollars of alcohol.
I don't think Apple imagine their gold watches will sell like their gold iPads and iPhones, but they do know there are a segment of rich people with no taste who will buy these gaudy monstrosities just to have the first and the most expensive option.
A person's ability to waste money and flaunt it doesn't make them any less of an idiot.
I regard this product in the same category as anything ever made by "will I am". Total crap
Sadly the iPad 1 didn't even get iOS 6. That's totally unacceptable. My iPad 1 has become a very expensive paperweight now.
Ugh. Rolex is the ugliest high end watch on the market. Obviously, it's subjective. But I find them gaudy.
The problem is Apple is pushing in a direction that is extremely like Apple, except the concept of a 'smartwatch' is a little too forced in the first place. It's like, the tablet concept is an inevitable evolution of portable computers, and we all rely on cellphones these days, but there doesn't seem to be any real absolute "I need one" reason for a smartwatch to exist.
There are those who think they are worth something with poor social skills and then there are people with money who make things happen.
Is nobody else not seeing what I'm seeing? The sapphire bottom of the WATCH looks made to come off to easily replace the battery, possibly upgrade the CPU and add new sensors.
Apple must know that the renewal cycle of these watches can't be the same as an iPhone or even a Mac. If you're buying a gold watch, it's got to be good for at least 5 years or maybe much longer. If you can upgrade the fitness sensors and maybe the CPU, Apple can continue to make money annually or bi-annually fromWATCH owners.
WATCH looks made to come off to easily replace the battery, possibly upgrade the CPU and add new sensors.
Apple must know that the renewal cycle of these watches can't be the same as an iPhone or even a Mac. If you're buying a gold watch, it's got to be good for at least 5 years or maybe much longer. If you can upgrade the fitness sensors and maybe the CPU, Apple can continue to make money annually or bi-annually from
WATCH owners.The iWatch looks great.
Unfortunately for $500 I will have to say pass.
For a version 1.0 product that will be obsolete in less than a year I will wait for version 2.0.
The battery life will be better.
I most likely will buy a Fitbit or Microsoft watch for now.
Unfortunately for $500 I will have to say pass.
For a version 1.0 product that will be obsolete in less than a year I will wait for version 2.0.
The battery life will be better.
I most likely will buy a Fitbit or Microsoft watch for now.
I think this is the first time Apple has delved into fashion obscurity. This gold watch is only popular to people with enough money to throw it away after 5 years when Apple stops supporting it. I have a 100 year old pocket watch that is beautiful and keeps time and is worth way more than an Apple watch--because it's still relevant. Jony Ive's research into the merger of technology and hundreds of years of timekeeping is fail--well unless you're only interested in money, which Apple says they are not.
The watch is a necessity that has survived for hundreds of years. Did your first iMac survive?
I think the iWatch is a revelation to people that don't know the value of a watch. One that is passed down from generations. How many people continue to use the first iPhone?
The watch is a necessity that has survived for hundreds of years. Did your first iMac survive?
I think the iWatch is a revelation to people that don't know the value of a watch. One that is passed down from generations. How many people continue to use the first iPhone?
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