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Are you going to spend more for new apple products?

May get an iPad soon..plan on reading comics on it. Don't know if I'll go with the next iPad Air or next iPad Mini.
 
Appl3FTW said:
I disagree... The Apple watch will offer more functionality than traditional watches. Traditional watches only show time better water resistance. However, it does offer better mechanism, ie. Jewel movement, solar etc. The apple watch will be a fashion accessory plus functionality of apps in additional to your typical timepiece. I do like your analogy that watch is for men as shoes are for girls. I would say bags for girls instead of shoes myself.
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It doesn't matter how many functions you cram in it. A person who wants to wear a Speedmaster or a Submariner or a Big Pilot simply isn't going to ditch that for an Apple Watch. It would be exactly like asking women to dump their Loubitoun shoes for Nikes because the Nikes have a sensor in the sole.
 
Surf Monkey said:
Yes, it will most certainly compete directly with traditional watches. Why? Because you only have one wrist to wear a watch on (two if you don't mind looking like a total geek.) And no, the Apple watch does not offer more functionality than a traditional watch because the CENTRAL function of a traditional watch is as an object of personal style. Additionally, most mid to high end watches are water resistant to fairly deep depths and that isn't the case with the Apple watch.

So, again, it's going to be a VERY hard sell for Apple in many important market segments. Imagine, for example, if Apple were trying to replace women's shoes with the Apple Shoe. That's kind of what they're trying to do here. Take a central fashion object for men (and to a lesser degree women) and replace it with an Apple gadget. That is not a trivial notion.
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That's true to a point. I think a very small percentage of people wear watches. I would say about 10%. I see Apple selling the majority of iwatches to the remaining 90% who don't wear watches. It's cheap enough, looks cool and has some neat features.
 
Ramio said:
That's true to a point. I think a very small percentage of people wear watches. I would say about 10%. I see Apple selling the majority of iwatches to the remaining 90% who don't wear watches. It's cheap enough, looks cool and has some neat features.
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While I agree that they intend to target non-watch wearers I disagree that watch wearers only constitute 10% of the population. Do an experiment and look around some. Far more than 10% of people wear watches.
 
This was my coworkers argument. He said watches aren't as common so pole isn't going to sell as much Apple watch.
 
New as in the watch, no. It's not for me.

New iPad Air 2 with retina HD screen and 2gb of ram: if my vision approves, yup. :D

New as in whatever updated Mac will take the place of my aging 2010 iMac definitely.
 
Watch is not my cup of tea; I have automatic watches that I like better that are many decades older.

I tend to buy computers as new as I can and pay for moderate better-than-bottom-of-the-line specs, simply because for me a laptop isn't an impulse purchase and I'll have it for many years.

iPhones and iPads I can go a generation back. I just picked up a 5s... but mainly because the the screen size is an issue for me (not too big) and the specs aren't that much different. And my iPad 3 is still running perfectly.
 
No watch for me, I'll wait until version 2.0. If anything I'd like to get Apple TV. Or an iPad.
 
I'm not buying anything new for a while. I have come to realize that I do NOT need every new thing they put out, when the old things are still working years later. No need to squander money like that.
 
Just waiting for a new Apple TV. I still have a second gen @ 720P, and it feels like a crime on my OLED TV.
 
Nah.

This year has been kinda expensive anyway thanks to a 15" rMBP purchase. I did toy with the idea of buying an iPhone 6 Plus, but it didn't impress me when I finally got one in my hands.

Considering handing down my iPad 2 and buying a "Mini 2" now that they've gone down in price. I don't really need an iPad anymore but I've always thought the mini was cool.
 
Appl3FTW said:
Ok let's see. Now that new products are coming, are you guys planning on spending more?
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Just bought a 16gb, space gray, wi-fi iPad Air 2.

I think I'm getting close to my saturation point of Apple products.

Now my wife and I have two 27" iMacs , and in a week we'll have a new iPad Air 2 to go along with the iPad Air we already own. My hope is that with the second iPad, we'll be able to rid ourself of paper newspapers at the dinner table forever.

We'll both have an iPad to look at while eating.

How gauche. ;)
 
Currently Have:
MBP Late 2011
iPhone 6
iPad Mini 2

Over the next year:
Will buy the iPhone 6S for sure. Considering Apple Watch too but I'm waiting until it's released to see more details on its health monitoring/tracking capabilities.

The Macbook Pro I've upgraded to a SSD and 16GB RAM and it's blazing fast so no need to upgrade there.

The iPad Mini is still very fast too. Plus I don't use it enough to justify upgrading this year or next year's version (unless Apple does some amazing upgrade to it).

I'll get the iPhone 6S because with the way my carrier does the phone financing, just selling my iPhone 6 would cover the remaining installments and pay for the down payment on the iPhone 6S. No sense in not upgrading.
 
Surf Monkey said:
Yes, it will most certainly compete directly with traditional watches. Why? Because you only have one wrist to wear a watch on (two if you don't mind looking like a total geek.) And no, the Apple watch does not offer more functionality than a traditional watch because the CENTRAL function of a traditional watch is as an object of personal style. Additionally, most mid to high end watches are water resistant to fairly deep depths and that isn't the case with the Apple watch.

So, again, it's going to be a VERY hard sell for Apple in many important market segments. Imagine, for example, if Apple were trying to replace women's shoes with the Apple Shoe. That's kind of what they're trying to do here. Take a central fashion object for men (and to a lesser degree women) and replace it with an Apple gadget. That is not a trivial notion.
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I think Apple is going more for the market that stopped wearing watches because of their phones and trying to get them to buy watches again. Which I think still will be a tough sell, but they won't fail at it. I doubt they will have much impact on traditional watches since I can't see a large amount of people switching over from a high or even mid range watch.

It will probably have a small impact on cheap watches, but it's priced too high to have a big impact there. SO the only real market for it that I can see is the people who stopped wearing watches because of phones, and that is a pretty big market if Apple can convince them to start wearing watches again.
 
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