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I guess what cheap monthly membership fees of a fitness center couldn't do, a 500$ watch did it for you!
The YMCA (a cheap fitness center?) is $44 for a single adult, $66 for a household (two adults + dependents) and $18 for a student (under 25)--that's in my area, yours may vary. Assuming the person isn't going to use that center for just a month but, to get results, for a year...the student and household would do better buying the membership. But the single adult is matching the watch in fitness membership. He/she could buy either (watch or membership) and pay the same. Then again, the student/household will have to pay their fee to the fitness center ($200+ or $300+) every year. If they buy the watches instead of the membership, then the watch becomes cheaper than the membership within three years (that is, if the couple both buy the sports version of the watch).

Of course, the gym isn't going to help any of these people outside of it. The gym isn't going to remind them to stand up, or count their steps as they walk, use stairs, help with calories, etc. This is what people mean when they say the watch has helped them get fit or lose weight. Not that it's a replacement for a fitness membership or buying a bike, but that it's been like a personal trainer. A personal trainer reminds you to do your exercises, motivates you to set goals and meet them, etc. So if you're going to compare costs, compare the watch to getting a daily, personal trainer, not a fitness membership.

Of course, this also assumes that the watch is only going to be used for exercise. Which is silly as the watch does a lot more and you'd never use it just for that. Do we add in the other uses in its value compared to a fitness membership?
 
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Cheese'N'Rice! Every AW thread looks like every Apple product thread on any other site ever. Some of the people end up talking about how they enjoy the product (and/or Apple's products in general) and a bunch of other people take a dump all over the thread (and/or Apple products in general).

Giving one's opinion is fine and should be encouraged (I don't want to read only pro-"XYZ" stories or only anti-"XYZ" stories...I want to know what people think). Spending a lot of your time obsessing over something you don't like is creepy though. Lets say you don't like Apple (I'm talking about other web sites), why waste so much of your time talking about Apple? I don't feel much about Samsung one way or another, but I never go into any Samsung threads (let alone EVERY SINGLE ONE) and complain about how much I hate Samsung or their products.

Is it an inferiority complex or something?

Anyway, glad to see BB is selling it online right now. I'd rather buy it there than @ Apple just for the RZ points alone. But it doesn't look like it will be carried at any store in IA/WI/MN (my area), at least not until they expand from 100 to 300 stores. That's a bummer.
 
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Self-indulgent, millennial tech trolls are fascinating... in a clinical, DSM-V kind of way.

Talking about:
1) People trolling about a product they don't own and their not suited for (thus will likely never own) ?
or
2) The actual Apple Watch buyers who bought a product they're actually using and simplifies their lives ?

The first group, spending their precious time doing something so useless seem really in need of help... No question.
If relentless trolling was in the DSM (and it should be), there would be a lot work for psychiatrists.
 
I'm no leather expert, but I thought it felt very soft and supple... seemed very comfortable when I tried it on in the store, but I went for the leather loop instead for its comfort and design. But the leather loop has a very thin layer that's glued/fused to the core material which is hard so you can't really compare it to traditional leather bands.

I will say this though: Apple has put as much thought and care into the bands as the watch itself ... The leather loop, steel link, sport band, modern buckle, Milanese loop... all very elegant, beautiful and quite innovative.

The first thing everyone commented on when I got my leather band, was why it did not smell like leather :), valid point, quality leather when new, has that new car smell to it. I do Lille the leather loop, saw a apple employee with one.
 
Nice, now they can say they have sent x quantity, now I’m ready to hear actual sales number of these form BB, way too many models for BB to move IMO unless they are expecting to sell 1 unit a week of each.
 
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.
I'm guessing here that you were "Yikes" regarding this woman's dullness toward a very cool device? It is amazing that people will buy such and not know what they've got or how cool it really is. And I totally agree that it's very "Yikes" if the the first person you meet—in person--with such a device can't muster the same enthusiasm for it as all those you've met online with it.

Maybe one of us AW owners near or in the NYC area can meet up with you and offer you a better experience? :cool:
 
EXACTLY!

But the moderators allow these types of inflamatory comments. These types of comments are what cause these message boards to lack any substance, but the moderators don't care.

I even reported the post to the moderators - but they will do nothing at all.

Absolutely. And yet, I have been banned on a number of occasions for pointing out some of the outlandish fabrications and absurdities that are posted. Substance doesn't bring advertisers. Only numbers do.
 
You're right.

What amazes me with all the posts from people that "Will never buy an  Watch" or "it's useless" spend time posting on the  Watch section of the forum. I'm really surprised by this behavior.
It's because of a rather sad and empty life that they live. There's one guy that you can depend upon posting a comment within a few minutes of an article going up. Imagine how much time he spends in front of his computer just waiting to pouch of the watch and many other things. Very sad.
 
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.

I don't know, MacDarcy.. You didn't mention the context, whether it was a social gathering, or art gallery event where there's more shared social interaction or if it was on the streets or subway..

If some stranger approached me in a public place asking me about a piece of jewelry I was wearing, I'd be low key as well. Not to be rude, but you never know with strangers.. and if they pushed the point I would get rude, because they're acting rude invading my space like that. You don't do that with strangers in the city.

You get more of a pass if it were a shared semi-public or private event.
 
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Nothing screams LUXURY more than Best Buy!

I'm not a fan of BB but expanding distribution through them is good business.
The first thing everyone commented on when I got my leather band, was why it did not smell like leather :), valid point, quality leather when new, has that new car smell to it. I do Lille the leather loop, saw a apple employee with one.

Interesting. My leather loop had the leather smell but I had to sniff it close up. It wasn't like bam, right out of the box smell.
 
every once in a while an useless product comes along that changes nothing

I have to agree too...what a useless product that changes nothing. To each their own, if you think this is the best product ever and worship it like it's God, then do what makes you happy...but for me it's like having an invisible watch. Wow, just discovered an invisible watch has the same use as this Apple Watch, both meaningless and useless...
 
If some stranger approached me in a public place asking me about a piece of jewelry I was wearing, I'd be low key as well.
I might be the same on city streets, but if I was approached in a coffee place or store, I'd be happy to answer a stranger's questions and engage in some conversation. Then again, this woman's responses don't sound low key (cautious and anxious to be on her way) to me; she sounds more like she's confused by the question. Like she's never imagined anyone asking her such a question about something she's bought. She's probably used to friends seeing one of her new purchases and going "ooo, ahh, you've got one!" (as they might over some other high-end watch) not "do you love it?"

There are those who, as I think I said, get devices just because they feel they should, not because they really want one, or know all it does. Rather like when people buy off-road vehicles even though they're only going to drive them in the city. They'd probably describe their vehicle experience as "meh." But they didn't buy the vehicle because they saw right away that it was for them, nor have they ever taken it off road so they can understand, first-hand, what it's capable of doing. They just thought, "I should have one of those."

It'd be nice if such people, on using what they'd bought, had magical revelations—realized what they could do with their purchase and fell in love or understood it wasn't for them. But they typically stay clueless and "meh" about it.
 
I don't know, MacDarcy.. You didn't mention the context, whether it was a social gathering, or art gallery event where there's more shared social interaction or if it was on the streets or subway..

If some stranger approached me in a public place asking me about a piece of jewelry I was wearing, I'd be low key as well. Not to be rude, but you never know with strangers.. and if they pushed the point I would get rude, because they're acting rude invading my space like that. You don't do that with strangers in the city.

You get more of a pass if it were a shared semi-public or private event.
Four oF NINE must work for Apple
 
I can't remember the last time I entered a Best Buy or radio shak or hhrgregg. With deals on the Internet for electronics, I am surprised that these stores are still around. Oh, at least one of my mentions is not, so maybe the others are on their way.

Anyway to jump into the fray of other comments. I love my watch, it was ridiculously expensive, but that does not change that I get value out of it. My wife loves hers. And the other five people I know that own an Apple Watch, all say positive things. So to the naysayers I say this, your only valid point is the price thing... And yet I have no regrets about the money my wife and I spent. Go figure.
The cost of the Apple Watches spent including the 5 friends, it could of went to starving families that hasn't eaten anything for weeks. I don't own a Apple Watch but if I do with the 5 other friends, would it feel good knowing that these families are starving so I can show off... Not sure I can
 
I have to agree too...what a useless product that changes nothing. To each their own, if you think this is the best product ever and worship it like it's God, then do what makes you happy...but for me it's like having an invisible watch. Wow, just discovered an invisible watch has the same use as this Apple Watch, both meaningless and useless...

That depends on who is using it and for what. In your case and in the case of the first person who treat the world and if they are the only people who's opinion matters, yes it is not worth it, in cases of people like me, do I use it as much as I thought I would when I bought it? No, far from it... But do I use it everyday and has it made certain things in my life easier and more inspiring? Most definitely.

Thanks to the watch I stand up more (it reminds me), I have apps which I work out with and I push myself to beat my and my friends records even when they are not around. So it may be pointless to you, but you and people who share your thoughts, but in my case, from a "health" point of view alone, I will not get rid of it. Will I upgrade to Watch2 when it is out? Probably not but I will probably get the newest one once this one breaks.
 
The cost of the Apple Watches spent including the 5 friends, it could of went to starving families that hasn't eaten anything for weeks. I don't own a Apple Watch but if I do with the 5 other friends, would it feel good knowing that these families are starving so I can show off... Not sure I can
Okay, instead of the cup of coffee at Starbucks send the money to the starving families. Also sell your phone and give up your data plan and change the world. Or is it just apple watch buyers who should send the money to starving families. Sheesh.
 
it could of went to starving families
So...I assume you work with the homeless/hungry? Or you've been homeless/hungry? If not, then you really have no business saying such silly stuff. If yes, then you should know better than to say such silly stuff. A real advocate against homeless/hunger would be urging us to vote in candidates who can change laws so corporations and multimillionaires (CEO's earning $25, $50, $75 mil a year) can be hugely taxed, and all that money can be used for food stamps and welfare and other programs to end homelessness and hunger. THOSE are the numbers needed to make relevant change. Not a few thousand.

Comments like this say that you don't really care that much about the hungry/homeless. You're just another troll transparently and boringly trolling :rolleyes: I mean, really? "There are hungry people!"? You couldn't come up with anything more original?

If you're in earnest, however, then please direct us to every other site where you're urging people to feed the hungry rather than buy a Rolex, SUV, large home, bottle of wine, vacation to Disney World, Xboxes, etc. AND, right here, right now, show us how you're selling all your costly but unnecessary stuff on eBay, so that you can give all that money to the hungry/homeless. Because if you're not willing to do that, then railing against others for not doing it is meaningless. Please start by selling the computer you're using to make posts like this one. Clearly, it serves no useful purpose.
 
I might be the same on city streets, but if I was approached in a coffee place or store, I'd be happy to answer a stranger's questions and engage in some conversation. Then again, this woman's responses don't sound low key (cautious and anxious to be on her way) to me; she sounds more like she's confused by the question. Like she's never imagined anyone asking her such a question about something she's bought. She's probably used to friends seeing one of her new purchases and going "ooo, ahh, you've got one!" (as they might over some other high-end watch) not "do you love it?"

Or her lack of super interest is simply because she was given the watch as a gift.

As I've mentioned, I gave a daughter-in-law one for her birthday. She seemed like a perfect recipient, being a long time and constant iPhone user, a busy mother, and into fitness.

However, she ALWAYS replies to everything on her phone anyway, so the benefit of ignorable notifications was totally lost in her case. As a mom of two young boys, she also had zero need of reminders to move around (grin). She soon stopped wearing it, and I understand that. So I think she would've replied in pretty much the same way.
 
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Or her lack of super interest is simply because she was given the watch as a gift.

As I've mentioned, I gave a daughter-in-law one for her birthday. She seemed like a perfect recipient, being a long time and constant iPhone user, a busy mother, and into fitness.

However, she ALWAYS replies to everything on her phone anyway, so the benefit of ignorable notifications was totally lost in her case. As a mom of two young boys, she also had zero need of reminders to move around (grin). She soon stopped wearing it, and I understand that. So I think she would've replied in pretty much the same way.
I bought one for my (adult) son as a present . He thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Saves him from checking on his phone.

If your d-i-l doesn't want it, pass it on to me, I was going to buy my wife one.
 
I bought one for my (adult) son as a present . He thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Saves him from checking on his phone.

Yep, that part is great. I had been giving Pebbles and Martians for a while to the other adult kids, so they were already used to the benefit of wrist notifications / weather before the Apple Watch came along.

Interestingly, none of the other iPhone users in the family have expressed a desire for an Apple Watch, as much as I've tried to promote all its features beyond just notifications. Some day.

If your d-i-l doesn't want it, pass it on to me, I was going to buy my wife one.

Not the way it works. Besides, I assume you're getting your wife an Edition, right? :D
 
I'm not a fan of BB but expanding distribution through them is good business.


Interesting. My leather loop had the leather smell but I had to sniff it close up. It wasn't like bam, right out of the box smell.

Really, I had the classic band, could not smell any leather, you have the loop . I might give the loop a go, how are the magnets?
 
Yep, that part is great. I had been giving Pebbles and Martians for a while to the other adult kids, so they were already used to the benefit of wrist notifications / weather before the Apple Watch came along.

Interestingly, none of the other iPhone users in the family have expressed a desire for an Apple Watch, as much as I've tried to promote all its features beyond just notifications. Some day.



Not the way it works. Besides, I assume you're getting your wife an Edition, right? :D

Nope, the Edition is my retirement present to myself. :)

I've been on the fence about the AW myself. As I just got a surge I want a fitness tracker now/currently, which is why I told SO not to get me an AW for my BDAY. If I didn't get the surge, I would be sporting an AW.
 
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