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AppleCare+ for Apple Watch Pricing: $59 for Sport, $79 for Steel, $999 for Gold
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You do know sarcasm is very hard to understand via the Internet? Obviously you didn't know.
^^ ditto. family has has 6 iPhones over the years with zero being damaged or broken within the first 3. I've fixed several broken screens for people at work for around $35 with a kit from Amazon. IIRC local places charge $100. The only iPhone to break was my 4s that after several years had a power button and sound button fail. No big dig for either in terms of use.
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$999 for AppleCare+Never thought I'd ever see that. But it's in line with how much the Edition costs. If you can afford $10,000 to $17,000 then chances are you can afford $11,000 to $18,000.
If you can afford a $10,000 gadget, then you should be able to afford a replacement, and not waste money by insuring it with Applecare.
Because buying a replacement if it breaks for another 10,000 vs. spending $1000 to insure your investment isn't wasting money. Although, in this case, anyone who wants to spend 10K on a watch that will likely be outdated in a few years and is essentially no different than a $500 model (besides the gold that's not worth 10K either) is wasting money.
UK Consumer Law actually gives six years cover by the supplier. In this case Apple for both. And Apple are one of the few companies that honour it.
Dude, he's being facetious.
Also, I hope you all understand that warranty is a cash grab. Just like mortgage insurance, a cash grab. It plays on the fears that people have. You are all trying to rationalize the price....which cannot be rationalized. An actuary calculated risk associated with offering warranty, plus profit expectation. I bet you they make more contribution to profit on applecare than the watch itself. The watch may have a greater gross margin, but less contribution to profit.
It's the same thing when buying a car. They make little profit on the sale of the car..but the profit is in the interest and "extra extended" warranty. Trust me. I know.
Also, I hope you all understand that warranty is a cash grab. Just like mortgage insurance, a cash grab. It plays on the fears that people have. You are all trying to rationalize the price....which cannot be rationalized. An actuary calculated risk associated with offering warranty, plus profit expectation. I bet you they make more contribution to profit on applecare than the watch itself. The watch may have a greater gross margin, but less contribution to profit.
It's the same thing when buying a car. They make little profit on the sale of the car..but the profit is in the interest and "extra extended" warranty. Trust me. I know.
I can see apple needing to step up security across it's entire distribution and sales networks just to avoid massive amount of theft of the edition watch. It's gonna cause some strange issues as they're small, easy to hide and you could potentially have a whole crate go missing worth millions! I still see the aluminium edition with a few different straps as better than the gold or even steel.
I'm sorry you didn't get the meaning of my post. You see, the person that was saying that anyone that afford a $17,000 watch cold afford AppleCare at $999 for the same. I disagreed in an over the top fashion, citing that I could afford the watch, using a credit card at 25% interest with a credit limit just a few dollars below the cost of the watch plus the aforementioned AppleCare, hence setting up an illogical conclusion, which is the genesis of the humor, specifically, that I could not really afford the watch, since at minimum payments, the watch would come to approximately $34,000.
I thought the brevity of my comment would make it more funny to the reader, thus accomplishing the intent of the joke.
Again, my apologies to those that I offended by them being mortally wounded by the shear offensiveness of what I said, my ill-fated attempt at sarcasm over the Internet, and I thank those two that took the time to point out, rather than just moving on to the next comment, the shear audacity of that attempt.
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And you obviously don't know a joke when you read one
Yeah, I facepalmed her response to my respond to her original post just cited. People here get excited over trivia...
For $17k, that watch better come with its own display case and certificate of authenticity, because only an idiot would wear it. As soon as you crack open the case, it's value would depreciate greatly.
And I'm sure there will be some people who will buy the cheap Apple watches and try to sell them as the $17k versions with fake bands.
And I'm sure there will be some people who will buy the cheap Apple watches and try to sell them as the $17k versions with fake bands.
No, Apple uses complex tax avoidance techniques to shift their profits to lower tax countries and their losses to the U.S.
WOW, not sure how Apple could have ever shocked me with pricing but they did.
You would think that since the watch has the same guts, the Applecare would be the same.
You would think that since you are paying $10K for a watch, it would have a 3 or more year warranty by default.
Is Apple so out of touch that they can't see that folks laugh at this stuff?
You would think that since the watch has the same guts, the Applecare would be the same.
You would think that since you are paying $10K for a watch, it would have a 3 or more year warranty by default.
Is Apple so out of touch that they can't see that folks laugh at this stuff?
I can't wait for AppleCare for theWatch Platinum...
$29,999
And then the Platinum version with diamonds, $59,999.
But Apple Watch Edition users are not using their watches any more carelessly than Sport users. So why the premium? Perhaps a gold bezel must be removed and possibly destroyed in order to replace a smashed screen?
Again, because it works the same as any other insurance policy/extended warranty. It's more than likely determined by a statistical formula that is based largely on purchase price. Same with cars, jewelry, homes. Is a person driving an $80,000 BMW automatically more careless than a person driving a $20,000 Honda Civic? Nope. But the BMW driver pays more in insurance. Why? Because his car costs more, primarily. That how insurance works. That's all AppleCare is. Same with my watch insurance policy. I pay $490 a year. Does that mean I'm more careless with them than someone paying $80 a year? Nope. Means I have a higher value insured.
I know, I kinda misread/misthought it and was thinking of apple care and not the plus....
Excellent point.
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Are the "guts" on these guys replaceable? I'm sure I'm late to the party on this point, but spending $10k+ on a first gen product that needs an iPhone for full feature use seems, absurd. I'm sure by the 3rd gen when battery life and wireless components improve there won't be a need for a secondary device for wireless services.
Since the watch itself is gold, it's not just the bracelet that's expensive. It's a shame Apple couldn't plan 1-2 cycle's ahead to allow owners of the premium editions to "pop in" updates already encased for a reasonable fee.
Or just pay nothing and get 6 years under UK Consumer Law: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/