Hands-On With the Apple Watch: A Developer's Experience at Apple's WatchKit Labs

[Oh Yeah]

You all must be rich!

I was planning on buying one when they came out, $350 for the smaller one and $400 for the larger watch wasn't too bad. But a $700 premium just for the black metal watch band??? You've got to be kidding Apple, $1100 for a watch. No thanks!!

 

[fabienio]

A launch for the Apple Watch, it may look like what? For the analyst Gene Munster it is 300,000 of pre-orders in 24 hours and 1 million of Apple Watch the first weekend




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[goobot]

Except that a smartwatch is no more a watch than a smartphone is merely a phone... A watch tells time and a phone lets you call people. Yet, calling people is a fringe use case with the iPhone and all the other smartphones. Likewise, telling time will be a fringe use case with the Apple Watch.
I haven't used a watch for more than 20 years. Simply because having the time on my wrist is pointless, I have plenty other ways to tell time without burdening my wrist with a chunk of metal. But I will buy an Apple Watch, because I can see many use cases for having a computer on my wrist.

Moreover, the Apple Watch will be bought by individuals, not business. The concept of "losing value" is pointless for individuals. They're not in the business of reselling used watches. They're in the business of using them. For an end-user, an items loses its value when it's either broken or cease to allow them to perform useful tasks with it. The watch will not stop working after a year. It will not stop performing tasks either. So it will be still have its full value.

Your comparison is pointless, because the most basic thing of a Smartwatch is being SMART, and not being a watch that doesn't lose it's value over time.

A dumb watch will only tell you the time, ever! It doesn't matter if it's a cheap one or a expensive Rolex, they only tell the time. So it doesn't make sense to compare it with a Smartwatch with much more functionality.

Especially if you consider how often you actually use the main functionality of a watch over the day - looking for the time - it's absolutely ridiculous to wear such a device on your wrist the whole day.

Except the watch isn't that smart. It completely relies on your iPhone making it pretty useless since you can just as easily pull out your phone and do more. Then the argument is that its a watch and all watches are expensive and that's what my other argument was about.

 

[Lictor]

It completely relies on your iPhone making it pretty useless since you can just as easily pull out your phone and do more.

Not if you're a woman... It takes at least 5 minutes for my girlfriend to dig her phone out of her gigantic handbag (women clothes appear to have no usable pockets).
Likewise, I can't put my iPhone 6+ in my pants pocket - it fits, but it's unconfortable when you kneel. So my iPhone 6+ is usually in my coat pocket. But when it's hot, I don't have a coat, so the phone has to go in my bag.
Also, I usually move around by bike. It's quite impractical to pull out a large phone while riding a bike in the traffic. The Apple Watch will be perfect to check for directions or to check the time.

 

[mejsric]

hahaha that's funny! well, as much as I hate Apple, I still think this will be a success for them, there are just way too many Apple die hard fans out there who are willing to buy basically everything that Apple sells, and Apple's marketing is seriously no joke. Yes, I hate Apple, I really do, but I don't see how this will not be a hit for them.

must be boring on the other forums? right?