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Apple Watch sightings in the wild (not counting anyone you know)

Have you seen an Apple Watch in the wild?

  • Yes

    Votes: 383 52.3%

  • No

    Votes: 349 47.7%
  • Total voters
    732
Prior to the holidays I had only seen about three other Apple Watches besides my own (okay... four if you count the Apple rep for my employer). One was a coworker and the other two belonged to a student and a professor at the university where I work.

So far this year I have seen several more, and two of them were people I know who received them as Christmas gifts. I think out of the ones I have seen two were the SS Apple Watch and the rest have been Sports (both silver aluminum and SG). I think a lot of folks took advantage of the price drop towards the end of the year.

Sean
 
I saw a stainless Milanese Loop on a full time Subway sandwich shop employee. I have to say it looked very strange next to his plastic gloves. While he was making my sandwich, he actually stopped twice to respond to messages on the watch. Very odd experience.
 
Have still yet to really see them around. My barber has one, so I talk to him about bands a bit. Noticed a lady, who was on the treadmill in front of me, had had on a watch with a light blue sport band.

It would be cool if I ran into somebody else with a Space Black.

Mac 128 said:
I saw a stainless Milanese Loop on a full time Subway sandwich shop employee. I have to say it looked very strange next to his plastic gloves. While he was making my sandwich, he actually stopped twice to respond to messages on the watch. Very odd experience.
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He touched his watch while handling your sandwich? Not gonna happen with me.
 
Mac 128 said:
I saw a stainless Milanese Loop on a full time Subway sandwich shop employee. I have to say it looked very strange next to his plastic gloves. While he was making my sandwich, he actually stopped twice to respond to messages on the watch. Very odd experience.
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IphoneIssues said:
Have still yet to really see them around. My barber has one, so I talk to him about bands a bit. Noticed a lady, who was on the treadmill in front of me, had had on a watch with a light blue sport band.

It would be cool if I ran into somebody else with a Space Black.

He touched his watch while handling your sandwich? Not gonna happen with me.
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I would have said, "Dude, use your nose! No... use your nose on your watch, not on my sandwich!" Actually, I wouldn't want to see that either while someone is making my food. :(

Given how many germs are on the average cell phone, I'm sure many watches and smartwatches are the same. I try to keep my watch and my iPhone clean, but I still won't touch either one while I'm preparing food. Sounds like Subway needs to improve their food safety training.
 
sean000 said:
I would have said, "Dude, use your nose! No... use your nose on your watch, not on my sandwich!" Actually, I wouldn't want to see that either while someone is making my food. :(

Given how many germs are on the average cell phone, I'm sure many watches and smartwatches are the same. I try to keep my watch and my iPhone clean, but I still won't touch either one while I'm preparing food. Sounds like Subway needs to improve their food safety training.
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Used to work there. I've seen some things.
 
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I am a teacher and i have seen three students with an apple watch sports. Mind you these are from 5-8th grade. "Hey sir, i have that watch!" Dont get me started on smartphones and mostly iphones.
 
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RiddlaBronc said:
I am a teacher and i have seen three students with an apple watch sports. Mind you these are from 5-8th grade. "Hey sir, i have that watch!" Dont get me started on smartphones and mostly iphones.
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It pains me to see kids that obviously didn't buy their watch wearing one. I spent hours working to get mine, setting money aside and paying all of the my bills etc (college student) and then I see some rich spoiled junior high kid walk by with their SS model and just shake my head. I'm also the same with smartphones as well lol
 
Husband of a coworker has one. Lady from my kid's music class has one. My brother in law has one.
 
Flow39 said:
It pains me to see kids that obviously didn't buy their watch wearing one. I spent hours working to get mine, setting money aside and paying all of the my bills etc (college student) and then I see some rich spoiled junior high kid walk by with their SS model and just shake my head. I'm also the same with smartphones as well lol
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I love to see that.
 
Flow39 said:
It pains me to see kids that obviously didn't buy their watch wearing one. I spent hours working to get mine, setting money aside and paying all of the my bills etc (college student) and then I see some rich spoiled junior high kid walk by with their SS model and just shake my head. I'm also the same with smartphones as well lol
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Did you grow up in rags eating corn?
 
Besides my brother, i never saw no one with one... But people always asking about mine... Kind of disappointing if you ask me :-/
 
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Somewhere in the not too distant future, it will be commonplace to see people wearing some sort of wearable on their wrist. Who knows when, but analyst are predicting enormous growth over the next four years. It can sometimes take awhile for new technology to really take off and although I have some doubts about how big wearable can be, some predictions say 100mm or more within 5 years.

I know one thing, my wife will never wear one. :)
 
BlueMoon63 said:
…some predictions say 100mm or more within 5 years.
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Oh god I hope not.

Anyway, if you guys are disappointed about how few Watches you're seeing, think of a few things.

Already, just in an informal poll here, I've been figuring that a third of Watch owners have not been regularly wearing a watch of any kind. These are probably people who saw little utility in a regular watch, or maybe they just never picked up the habit.

Look around at the general public and notice how many bare wrists you see. Of the ones who do wear watches, try to check (without being obvious) if their watch is actually interesting and not either a cheap fashion watch or a super-basic model.

When you account for the people who just want the time on their wrist (usually a Timex or Casio), and the ones who pick up an assortment of styles for cheap (often Fossil, Michael Kors, or similar), the rest are likely interested in watches on a deeper level.

And of this remaining bunch, you'd have to find the ones who aren't afraid to leave behind their investments in other watches, whether it's a few hundred or tens of thousands of dollars.

It's already a limited market for the AW. It's never going to sell in iPhone-like numbers. But it doesn't need to, either; I've guessed that if it sells to just five percent of iPhone owners -- one out of every twenty -- it'll still sell in the tens of millions. I'd hardly call this a failure.
 
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Flow39 said:
It pains me to see kids that obviously didn't buy their watch wearing one. I spent hours working to get mine, setting money aside and paying all of the my bills etc (college student) and then I see some rich spoiled junior high kid walk by with their SS model and just shake my head. I'm also the same with smartphones as well lol
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I understand Flow. I sold a vintage Slingerland 1952 Snare drum to pay for my  watch.
 
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Sitting across from me on the subway is a guy with a space grey Sport on a Pad & Quill cuff strap (yes, I asked). Fits his style, too.
 
I know this might sound unbelievable, but I didn't see ONCE a watch in the wild since I got it, which is April 2015...
And yet, I live in a semi-big city, I frequently use transports and walk a lot.
 
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Update, I was co-teaching a third grade math class and these twin girls had an apple watch in rose gold with that pink band they come in. I was like whoa! Not even sure if they had an iphone on them since we dont allow them to have em in class. Wow
 
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