Best Buy Begins Selling Apple Watch

[ProjectManager101]

Personally, I find value in the watch - as do many others. On the contrary, some, or many, don't find value in it. Why is it though that because you don't see the value, that means it automatically has zero value to anyone?

Get over yourself.

Dude, again... I live in Miami and until today I haven't seen the first Apple Watch around and I go out a lot and I am a manager in a multimedia company with 400 employees. That is the fact.

And it was a failure because of the marketing too, they were showing off with models and celebrities, Apple is not that.

And then the screen is too small and too little info, people already got used to pull their iPhones and guess what!!!!!! They asked for iPhones with BIGGER SCREENS and they are a success.

So, for the price of an Apple Watch that does nothing really except if I go to the gym... I can buy an iPhone that can do thousands of things already.

Just imagine, Apple already is giving away the surplus to Best Buy. If the product was good Apple would be selling it themselves for another year instead of giving away commission.The iPhone and iPad were sold at Best Buy like after the 3rd generation.

Apple is actually pushing the Music campaign even bigger to distract the attention. There is no advertising of the Apple Watch anywhere already.

 

[Recognition]

I live in NYC and saw my first person wearing an Apple Watch. I went up to them and asked how'd they like it? She actually paused for a moment, looked at her watch and said "meh". No joke. So I pressed on and asked, is it cool? Does it do cool things? To which she unenthusiastically replied, "Well, it tells me when I have a call or get a text."

Yikes.

If some random stranger came up to me whilst I was walking through London and started quizzing me about my watch, I too would give the shortest, dismissive answers in order to get the weirdo away from me and so I could carry on with my day.

 

[MacrumoursUser]

It doesn't have to chance something to be a great and worthy product. Sometimes, it just has to be better at doing something.

IT already is by far the best in the respective category, and it has potential to actually change things as well.

Its not better at anything. The only thing that its useful for would be apple pay which is also available nowhere.

 

[martygras9]

I hope this leads to price cuts along the way, and more people giving the AW a go. At its current price its too expansive for some people to consider.

If it were more "expansive" more people might own one.

Kidding. I've got one.

 

[ProjectManager101]

August 2015. I still haven't seen anyone wearing an Apple Watch in the real world, at least not here in Germany. I've only seen a fistful of smartwatches thus far, and nobody who wore one actually gave that device category a lot of credit or said that they couldn't imagine life without them. After all, these things are basically just smartphone extensions and do not provide anything that the smartphone couldn't do on its own.

I still have not seen anybody who could actually REPLACE a notebook with an iPad or any other tablet, and I still have not seen anybody who ever used his tablet/iPad for something other than playing casual games, reading an eBook or consuming music or movies or doing some "light" web surfing. Now the market for tablets is saturated and people have figured out that the new 2015 tablet is not any more useful than their old 2010 tablet. In other words, tablets are a fad that, as the drop in sales numbers indicates, is finally coming to an end.

Just as those Apple Watch health apps are a fad that won't last. People who need a gadget to make them pay attention to their own health will soon start getting annoyed by those nagging reminders and either ignore them or switch them off -- gadgets don't change the human nature, full stop. Tamagochis also were hip for a while, and those have disappeared a long time ago. Fads don't last.

I haven't seen an iPod in a long, long time, though - because smartphones have effectively killed their market niche and smartphones have become cheap commodity products. The iPod itself wasn't the big deal anyhow. The iTunes store behind it was what changed the game, because all of a sudden there was a relatively easy to use way to fill an mp3 player with legally obtained content without having to purchase a CD and rip it yourself (which, at the time, was also very time consuming). The store is still there. But now it's fueling smartphones instead of pure mp3 players.

The graphical user interface and smartphones were real game changers. They were actually useful and had a significant impact on our daily businesses and routines, and they opened the world of computing to non-technical people and made the Internet mobile. And smartphones, at least once in a while, can still be used to make a phone call. For a lot of people, that's a useful feature...

Truly useful things last - and don't need to be hyped to sell well.

I haven't seen the first one and I live in Miami!!!

Who is going to buy and Apple Watch if people are literally looking for bigger screens in first place?

And for the price of an Apple Watch I can buy an smart phone that can do billions of things already, not to mention that in order to used the Apple Watch I need the iPhone.

 

[martygras9]

If some random stranger came up to me whilst I was walking through London and started quizzing me about my watch, I too would give the shortest, dismissive answers in order to get the weirdo away from me and so I could carry on with my day.

I live in NY and would have given you the EXACT same response. The Apple Watch is expensive and a potential target for thieves. A stranger asking me about my personal belongings is going to get generic passive answers.

 

[I7guy]

Its not better at anything. The only thing that its useful for would be apple pay which is also available nowhere.

Seems to me an ezpass analogy comes to mind. If you have an ezpass based on this line of thinking you would be a great candidate for an apple watch. The ezpass is a time saver and only useful for one thing, yet millions have one.

So your criteria/thinking isn't perhaps on the money as no one would literally buy the apple watch as no one would get an ezpass.

 

[merkinmuffley]

I'm waiting for it to show up in the Dollar Store.

 

[samcraig]

I live in NY and would have given you the EXACT same response. The Apple Watch is expensive and a potential target for thieves. A stranger asking me about my personal belongings is going to get generic passive answers.

I live in NYC and have talked on the subway about my phone, smartwatch and other tech. It really depends on the vibe or person asking (to be honest) than JUST the fact it's a "stranger"

 

[phillipduran]

If some random stranger came up to me whilst I was walking through London and started quizzing me about my watch, I too would give the shortest, dismissive answers in order to get the weirdo away from me and so I could carry on with my day.

Not very friendly are you.

 

[martygras9]

I live in NYC and have talked on the subway about my phone, smartwatch and other tech. It really depends on the vibe or person asking (to be honest) than JUST the fact it's a "stranger"

It's not so much the stranger that I'm worried about but the other people that are around.

Keep doin' your thing, man. Just be careful.

 

[Recognition]

Not very friendly are you.

That's Londoners for you.
I don't need to discuss, promote or justify my possessions with random people in the street.
Seems very bizarre to me!

 

[stukick]

Yeah, great job getting them into Best Buy stores. Not one model is available to pick up today in my area.

 

[Mr Fusion]

Why? Because it didn't bring peace to the world?

What metric are you using?

I'm only going to say this once...

It's a failure because I said it's a failure.

NO MORE QUESTIONS!!!

 

[Andres Cantu]

The more places, the better. But Best Buy, please explain why one of your "bonus deals of the day" is an iPod touch 5th generation (in the least-selling color and only 16GB) at $199 when you could get the newer one for the same price?

 

[Recognition]

I'm only going to say this once...

...thank god for that!

 

[Kaibelf]

every once in a while an useless product comes along that changes nothing

I use mine every day and it's made a strong impact on my physical activity levels and productivity. I guess just because you don't want one, it must be "useless." That's the same mentality that people lazily defer to when they refer to apple products as "toys" which aren't for "real work." Most of the time, it's because they either choose to not use them for some other reason, or they just are too lazy to try.

 

[Kaibelf]

The same is said about gym memberships and stair masters that yet eventually fall into disuse. In time, so many watches will become dresser drawer ware.

So it's Apple's fault that don't care enough about your own health to even exercise? Talk about the epitome of laziness.

Nothing screams more wearable fashion and horological excellence than Best Buy...

I'm confused. Do the MacBooks sold at Best Buy all these years have lesser quality than the ones at the Apple Store? And should people be embarrassed that they bought them there? Let me know once you are finished shopping at the boutique for faux-antiques and the bakery gets your special artisan baguettes to you.

 

[greytmom]

"I live in ------- and I haven't seen an Apple Watch yet, therefore it means no one in my country/state/city has one."

Seriously?

 

[rizzo41999]

Caved a few days ago and got myself a Watch. I was really "Eh" about it and was feeling a bit of buyers remorse. But then after about a week, I really started to dig it. Future generations are gonna blow this one out of the water, but it is pretty cool. However, I personally have found myself to not be as phone heavy as other people, primarily using the iPhone for calls, email, messages and news sites. For that reason, I haven't found the watch to be too lacking in that regard. But, that's just my personal opinion and habits.

 

[samcraig]

So it's Apple's fault that don't care enough about your own health to even exercise? Talk about the epitome of laziness.

I think he was speaking about the human condition, not Apple.

And I tend to agree with him for the most part. There are probably many people that believe the Apple Watch will make them work out more. Or "care" more. And for a time, it will. And then, it won't. That's not the fault of the Apple Watch.

 

[Rogifan]

I wonder how they decided which stores. None in Minnesota are selling it though we have 5 Apple stores.

I recently got the 38mm Watch and I love it. More than I thought I would. And I'm 100% with Dan Benjamin who said on Jim Dalrymple's latest podcast that he doesn't understand why people are calling the Watch confusing. I don't get it either. It took me a couple minutes to figure it out and the only problem I've had so far is one day when my wireless headphones wouldn't pair with the Watch. I've been wearing it while sleeping too using a heart rate tracking app and a silent alarm. I can't wait until developers have access to the accelerometer to do sleep tracking. I put the fully charged Watch on before I go to bed and I wake up with ~85% battery left. The only thing that really taxes the battery is the workout app. No complaints so far and I know it will only get better with watch OS 2.

 

[Kaibelf]

I live in NYC and saw my first person wearing an Apple Watch. I went up to them and asked how'd they like it? She actually paused for a moment, looked at her watch and said "meh". No joke. So I pressed on and asked, is it cool? Does it do cool things? To which she unenthusiastically replied, "Well, it tells me when I have a call or get a text."

Yikes.

So, she doesn't track fitness with it and doesn't use it for Apple Pay nor transit. In NYC. Which means she's a moron who underutilizes her purchase. I know a good dozen people with the watch and the calling/texting thing is the thing they all care about the least.

 

[Chatter]

Maybe its just me but I am excited for 3rd party bands! I keep looking online and read the MR post from a while back. But now being able to touch these bands before buying is huge.

 

[Enygmatic]

Self-indulgent, millennial tech trolls are fascinating... in a clinical, DSM-V kind of way.