Not so sure now that pricing details are out

[Julien]

...I hope you are a big eater because I previously managed to hold out until the iPhone 3G and iPad 2 before taking the plunge. 😛

You could say that. Here is yesterday's and need to add a couple of pounds of body fat and get up to 149 lbs.😀

 

[TallManNY]

The SS Link was my initial target and it came in about $200 more than I was hoping. It is making me consider (A) the SS with classic buckle or (B) Sports or SS watch with after-market buckle (probably only have to wait a couple of weeks for a good selection of those bands) or adapter to use regular bands.

 

[Trickhot3102]

I bought a kick ass 2015 Gibson SG standard instead.

Nice! Im more of a Rickenbacker and Gibson LP guy 😀

 

[Lennyvalentin]

I named 6 things that guitar does for me. What does the apple watch do for you that is not redundant on your iphone?

Well, it's on your arm instead of in your hand/pocket, and it checks your pulse rate, neither of which is true for iPhone... That's two things. 😉

For a watch. It's a watch that last 18 hours maybe.

If you're an engineer and working 24 hour shifts because something broke this watch is useless.

If your 24 hour workday includes a 30 minute workout with music streamed from the watch, checking time obsessively every 12 minutes of every hour and screwing around with apps for a quarter of an hour and so on, then yeah, you're going to be short six hours of a full day of active battery life.

There is power reserve on top of active battery life however, so unless you don't sleep for at least four days the watch isn't going to be completely useless.

I don't know why people get so hung up about the 18 hour figure. Don't you have a brain? Can't you realize that there's more to battery life than just a static figure? 🙄 If you only use the watch to check the time, it runs for two days without entering power reserve mode.

 

[Technodynamic]

Boring.

Smart maybe, but boring 😉

This logic always puzzles me. On the one hand, I sort of envy this type of resolve and (thrift?).

On the other hand.....it puzzles me 😀

yup, thats called "cheap".

My as well wait for gen 3. Even better and more value!

I'll likely sell my gen 1 for a gen 2 and it will cost me a 40% fee to have the yen 1 watch for 2 years. Since I'm getting SS, that's about $250, or, $125 a year to own it now.

 

[tschangrx7]

Had my thoughts on SS with loop band. Expected it to be maybe 20% more or even 50% premium cost increase over already high base price of $350. At $700, that's 100% premium. Perhaps $700 is not a lot of money for some but it's not an easy decision for me.

I had my eye on the SS version with link bracelet but I was only prepared to pay $650 max. At $1400 I've lost all interest and have no desire to purchase the sports model since it will feel like a step down in quality from my current SS watch. Now I'm just going to observe how the watch sells and see what the 2016 version brings.

 

[Tycho24]

How many of you were pretty sure that you're getting one but now after announcement of price details not so sure, mainly because it's double the cost you were hoping to spend?

Ok...
Since we knew the Sport was $349, you're obviously not talking about that...
And since the SS is $549 & you couldn't possibly have expected that to be $275... you can't be talking about that.
The only possible thing you could've thought was that the Edition was going to be $5,000, not $10,000.

Lol, good luck finding a large group of people (if any), that are in that same boat.

 

[tschangrx7]

Nope, I’m not looking for consensus, baby, I’m just not in the mood.

Ok...
Since we knew the Sport was $349, you're obviously not talking about that...
And since the SS is $549 & you couldn't possibly have expected that to be $275... you can't be talking about that.
The only possible thing you could've thought was that the Edition was going to be $5,000, not $10,000.

Lol, good luck finding a large group of people (if any), that are in that same boat.

 

[KatieKat78]

Ya I was looking at the LP's too but I really loved the sound of the SG standard.

Nice! Im more of a Rickenbacker and Gibson LP guy 😀

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Ok so I'm looking for what the apple watch can do for me and the only thing you guys came up with was:

"Well, it's on your arm instead of in your hand/pocket, and it checks your pulse rate, neither of which is true for iPhone... That's two things."

I think it checks your heart rate right? Not pulse rate?

The thing about the apple watch is that you have that on your hand and you have to have the iphone in your pocket too. Now you're strapped with 2 devices instead of one. Ideally I should be able to just take the apple watch with me and leave the iphone at home to do basic tasks. Such as listening to music and the excercise apps so it needs the gps and whatnot.

In my opinion I think the reason why you all want the apple watch is so you can say you have it. Which is perfectly fine nothing wrong with that. You can say that about the pebble time steel as well.