he's stating his opinion. don't start acting all childish because you happen to disagree.
An opinion would be something like if I told you I prefer McDonalds to Burger King. There is no right answer, maybe that's my preference or opinion.
If I told you gasoline cars are redundant because of Tesla, that's getting to be a bit silly, but again my opinion.
If I stated that no one will buy a gasoline vehicle next year because of Tesla, that's gone beyond an opinion into silliness.
The original poster essentially claimed that there simply isn't a market for watches any more, and that the Apple Watch will die out like all other smart watches.
I guess he could ignore all of the successes Apple Watch has had and have that viewpoint. But to write off the entire watch industry is clearly nonsense.
smartwatches are a different product than an ordinary watch.
Well the original poster conflated the two. His argument essentially was this watch like all smart watches will fail, and then essentially that watches are obsolete and people don't wear them any more. Which is obviously not even close to being true.
In fact Rolex have been ramping up both production and price of their watches for over a decade now. If watches were on their way out, how do you explain that?
we also don't know how many they had to sell.
True. Time will tell I guess.
it's a true comment. watches are worn by less people since the smartphone became popular.
I don't know that you can say that. You can go off your tiny corner of the planet and the few people you see around you. It's a tiny fraction of the world population.
I travel extensively and watches are everywhere. Maybe a little shunned by college kids, but honestly even plenty of young people wear them.
And as I mentioned earlier, if we're just talking about watches as a concept, I gave you some staggering numbers as to how many watches are available on Amazon.com.
I'm fully aware that these are not smart watches, but the original poster was talking about watches in general as a concept at that point.
If there were such a steep decline in watch wearing since the smart phone came out, how do you explain those incredible numbers?
sounds to me like you're taking his opinion more personally than you should.
Seems to me like you are butting into a conversation, taking sides, being obnoxious, and trying to explain the obvious to me as if I have not thought about it.
You, me and the original poster can agree or disagree on our opinions of the future success of the Apple Watch. We're each entitled to our opinions. But to comment that because people now often have phones that there is no longer any real interest in watches simply doesn't add up.
Amazon don't put seven pages of watches costing more than $50K on their web site, for a market that no longer exists, or is rapidly dwindling.
I also don't think Apple are so stupid that they go down this road if they don't think they can find a way to make it a success.