Wannabe hipsters? WTF do fashion models have to do with hipsters? She'll probably end up being in an Apple commercial for the Watch in China, where I imagine it will be a huge seller since from what I understand the Chinese who have money like to flaunt it in visible ways.
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Wannabe hipsters? WTF do fashion models have to do with hipsters? She'll probably end up being in an Apple commercial for the Watch in China, where I imagine it will be a huge seller since from what I understand the Chinese who have money like to flaunt it in visible ways.
But that is exactly what they should do. People who are into fashion frequently wear watches. It isn't a stretch to get someone who already wears a watch to get an apple watch. People who wear watches because they are fashionable, might already own several watches. What is one more?
I haven't worn a watch since fourth grade. I am sure they would like me to buy one, but I don't think middle age, fat, plaid-wearing, non-exercising couch potatoes are their main target... yet.
I am not interested in one (yet - its all about the apps), but I don't have a problem with the product or the price.
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Just curious, for those who aren't interested in the Apple Watch, could you tell me why? Were you ever interested in it? Did you not like the approach apple took? The design? What else would you realistically like to see from the Apple Watch that would make you excited? Lower price etc...anything.
Odd. For "slaves" people sure seem to work in those factories willingly. But of course, if you rode in there on your white horse, perhaps you can liberate them from those awful jobs so that they can go back to near-starvation working the fields so that you can feel better about yourself, despite what those employees want.
That would be an issue for their government, nor American people!
1. The user interface is a confusing mess and it has to be controlled by constantly switching between 5 different input methods! Touchscreen, press touchscreen, a button, a little scroll wheel, clicking on the scroll wheel... this is insane!
2. It is nothing on its own. Has to have a constant connection to an iPhone that does everything the watch does but better AND faster.
3. Battery life is terrible.
4. Not water proof.
5. Way to fat. You can't even get it under a shirt sleeve.
6. The marketing campaign targeted at wannabe fashion victims at Paris Fashion Week is a real turn off too.
Lower price tag, yes.
Wearable tech has been tainted by goofy Google glass.
Its technology that sits between you and other people it feels to me that its too impersonal.
Although
Watch is nowhere near aw impersonal as google glass.Oh, and Segays!
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Its a fashion accessory and a computer.
Models are used to sell fashion all the time. Maybe you live on another planet.
Apple, or anyone tech firm really, has never sold anything in the high end fashion sphere, so that's why you see new ways of selling things.
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You haven't seen it, or used it yet you talk. That says everything.
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Less bulky that the 360 and has much higher specs, design and fit.
BTW, why not sell it as tech and fashion? Nothing precludes it. That's basically how high end cars are sold.
Because people buy things based on celebrity and influence.
People do not buy things based one "regular folks".
thanks.
Right now smart watches have a "nerd" vibe to them.
Nobody is going to buy them if they're seen as for nerds. Nerds are seen as undesirable and unattractive to most people.
The genre needs a fresh fashion approach if it wants to be taken seriously.
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Star-power is not what this was about; otherwise, Apple easily could have gone to Hollywood stars, as they sometimes have in pitching other products. Ms. Wen is known for one thing: being a model, because she possesses the precise type of beauty sought after in the fashion marketing world.
I haven't worn a watch in over 20 years and could care less about making a fashion statement. So what will this watch do that an IPhone 6 won't ?
Just can't see the value of this for the masses.
Just can't see the value of this for the masses.
1. How is it a confusing mess? Would you have rather had only a touch-based interface in which you fingers obstruct what's on the screen? BTW, apart from the digital crown, the
Watch has less physical buttons than the iPhone, which has a fingerprint reader on top of a button, a power button, two volume buttons, and a switch.2. The
Watch was never meant to replace the smartphone/tablet that you constantly carry around and stare at all day. The watch is meant to be complementary and out of the way.3. You make it sound like if there's other smart watches with better battery life.
4. Ugh, really? How often were you planning to bathe with a watch on.
5. Clearly you're just spewing what you've heard from others, since I'm sure you physically haven't tested that out.
6. Fashion Week in Paris is about art and culture, which seems to me what Apple is trying to converge with technology. What's wrong with that.
With all due respect, why should the masses care about if you have or haven't worn a watch for any span? Also, why should they care what your priorities are for the watch? And who really anointed you as a tastemaker in the first place?
That Watch didn't look bulky at all on her. That's why I always wait to review products for myself. Of course I'll be checking out reviews before I purchase for more information. But I will never pre order a new product without seeing it for myself.
With that said. I can't wait to find out what apple is going to put into thisWatch. Although battery life will be my deciding factor. Also, I may just buy one just to have collected the original. I think it will be worth some good money. But I've never collected anything ever. Funny that my first will be a tech gadget.
Watch didn't look bulky at all on her. That's why I always wait to review products for myself. Of course I'll be checking out reviews before I purchase for more information. But I will never pre order a new product without seeing it for myself. With that said. I can't wait to find out what apple is going to put into this
Watch. Although battery life will be my deciding factor. Also, I may just buy one just to have collected the original. I think it will be worth some good money. But I've never collected anything ever. Funny that my first will be a tech gadget.
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1. These watches are not ugly. If you think they are, you need an eye examination. 2. Vogue readers don't buy _fake_ Armani hand bags. They are not exactly expensive. 3. You are "into tech"? If you are "into tech" instead of "into technology" then _you_ are the desperate one. 4. If you are "into tech", Samsung has a watch for you. Apple will outsell them ten to one.
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Are you trying to be funny or insulting? I'd say you failed at both.
I could care less what the masses think about my choices and am no means a "taste master".
Just wondering why anyone who is not "fashion orientated " would need to purchase an I watch if they already own an IP6 type phone.
Of course if Apple is looking to open an entirely new market it is understandable I just can't see the majority of current customers like me buying a technology that I already own with my IP6.