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What happened when Apple dropped the price?

What happened when Apple dropped the price?

AFDoc said:
Yeah fixed it..... huge difference between $350 and $600 in most people's eyes I would imagine. I guess time will tell but I'd be willing to be it sells like hotcakes.
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Remember. That's $600 for an entire phone that Apple realized people, for the most part, wouldn't pay. Now they are expecting people to pay over half that or equal to it, if you actually want a nice one and not hum drum aluminum (aluminum watch...really?) for just a watch. That depends and requires the iPhone.

I'm sure they will sell, but slow dramatically after the initial release. There are going to be people that buy it just because it says Apple. So I don't really judge the success of the watch concept by the first wave of sales. I'd judge it by the sales of the 2nd, 3rd, etc generations to see if people are actually using them. It's nothing to buy a product off hype, then realize you don't use it and throw it in a drawer.
 
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profmatt said:
Because it's slowing dawning on me that the Apple Watch is very expensive...
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I agree. It is very expensive compared to non-Apple options. I was quite surprised when I started looking around and found some very attractive non-Apple devices at half the price of the sport or less.

The main features I need from a wearable are: silent caller ID, text notification, a few essential notifications (like "meeting starts in 15 minutes") and multi-day battery life. Step/distance/calorie tracking and iPod music control are nice-to-haves. Surprisingly, I can get all that today in a discrete, understated and guaranteed swim-proof band for half of the Sport's $350 tag.

So yeah, once the first rush of Apple sales fades, the rest of the world will start looking around and see much better options. Apple will have to drop prices - or at least get creative with pricing (free Applecare? free bands?) to avoid early-adopter wrath.
 
MH01 said:
Don't forget that some people may not have iPhones, so the cheapest way they can experience an apple watch is 1K cheapest iPhone + cheapest apple watch.
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Yeah and when the iPod came out you needed a computer to get music on it (and it only worked with a Mac). And the iPod in today's dollars would cost over $500. When the first iPhone came out you needed a computer to get anything on it, sync stuff like contacts, update software etc. Obviously Apple thinks their watch is better than the competition in terms of software, ecoshstem, build quality, materials used etc. and they're charging accordingly. And my guess is their target market right now is iPhone owners. If the watch proves to be successful and they get some Android switchers (or people who own older iPhones to upgrade) great.
 
zacheryjensen said:
The first iPhone price dropped significantly only a few months after the launch and to appease those that bought it at the higher price, $100 gift cards for Apple Store were given to them. Source: I got one.

And to be honest, I never felt bad about the situation and would not have cared if I didn't get anything. I think it's stupid the way people freak out when a product price drops unexpectedly. If you didn't think it was worth it at the original price you shouldn't have bought it. Still, Apple soothed the whiny consumers and it got me a nice wireless keyboard :)
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I got an Axiom 25 MIDI keyboard out of the deal, but I'd be lying if I said the $200 price drop a month after release didn't sting a little bit.
 
Rogifan said:
Yeah and when the iPod came out you needed a computer to get music on it (and it only worked with a Mac). And the iPod in today's dollars would cost over $500. When the first iPhone came out you needed a computer to get anything on it, sync stuff like contacts, update software etc. Obviously Apple thinks their watch is better than the competition in terms of software, ecoshstem, build quality, materials used etc. and they're charging accordingly. And my guess is their target market right now is iPhone owners. If the watch proves to be successful and they get some Android switchers (or people who own older iPhones to upgrade) great.
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Not a good comparison, you are not required to carry a computer around to get full functionality out of an iPod. You just needed on Mac to sync at home , I knew people that did not have macs and they found a way to get music and use it without purchasing a Mac, I used my friends to load music on mine .

Even with an iPhone , you just needed to find any computer to activate it, and you were off . I don't think it was unheard of in 2007 for some sort of computer to exist at home or at work, or education institution, or having a friend who had one.
 
Wallabe said:
Apple just dropped the price by 50%.

At least for all Apple's employees. :p
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$175 for the sport is realistic. It's not much more than a reprogrammed iPod nano on a rubber band, for Pete's sake. :)

That, and a ton of marketing fluff!
 
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Arran said:
$175 for the sport is realistic. It's not much more than a reprogrammed iPod nano on a rubber band, for Pete's sake. :)

That, and a ton of marketing fluff!
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I love how people who know next to nothing about the tech behind a product can definitely say what said product should cost. Is a retina display, heart rate sensor (that looks nothing like the competition), force touch and taptic engine "marketing fluff"?
 
Rogifan said:
Is a retina display, heart rate sensor (that looks nothing like the competition), force touch and taptic engine "marketing fluff"?
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Frankly, a lot of it is marketing fluff.

Particularly at this stage since nobody here knows if these things are worth it. Proof of the pudding, and all.
 
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