*shrug* I think the Apple watch looks way better. Than again I am a huge fan of simplistic design and aesthetics.
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What to Expect at Your Apple Watch Try-On Appointment
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*shrug* I think the Apple watch looks way better. Than again I am a huge fan of simplistic design and aesthetics.
I believe the Apple Watch models on display are under glass, so you would still need a try-on appointment to actually touch one.
I think he is talking about the stories. Every few days there seems to be a new, very long story, basically stating the same thing - some sort of wrap up or conjecture - and all based on no new facts. They seem to be a very transparent attempt at clicks.
He may also like being treated well by Apple employees, but just be growing tired of these stories.
There may be glass display (showing the variety of styles at a glance, but otherwise locked up until the staff get them out).
But there are ALSO Apple Watches you can touch (not wear), much like any other Apple product, if the article is correct:
Nailed it.
Also:
"When your specialist contacts you, he or she will ask a few questions about your watch needs and what you think is the most interesting aspect of the Apple Watch."
Did Cook bring back John Browett?
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But anyone can make such an appointment and have that experience if they want to. That's the apples to apples comparison there.
I'm not big on "being sold", either, but frankly if I'm going to spend $15,000 on a watch I want to be given some special attention and some personal sales time. At that price point you're basically buying an experience and a concept, after all.
Then again, I'm not likely to ever spend $1000 on a watch, let alone $15,000, so I'm not the target market. I strongly suspect people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on watches--smart or otherwise--like the white-glove treatment, but who knows.
Personally, even though I very nearly bought a wristband and iPod nano as a makeshift smart watch at one point, I'm almost certainly going to pass on this iteration. I'm not going to say that there won't be a point in the future where I could change my mind, but it's going to take a pretty spectacular killer app to get me to habitually put something on my wrist again.
Relax, it's just a temporary thing. By this time next year, Apple will probably give away a sport edition with each iPhone purchase.
For some people who own an iPad, that quote still applies - says a iPad owner who doesn't use his iPad Air nearly as much as he thought he would, even at home. Thankfully, for the Apple Watch, it's future is a little more certain and defined than the iPad in its current form. We know the Apple Watch won't deviate much from its current form/function, but we're still waiting for the iPad to reach the next level (iOS/OSX integration for example) and move away from its current "larger iPod touch" status.
If you want it in store you have to reserve it. It's like the reservation pass thing from the iPhone but you book from home. You pick a time to pick it up and you have basically an hour from that time and then it goes to someone else. It's booked out so if you didn't have a try on you can do it then, or just go straight to paying and set up.
The only thing they haven't been told yet, according to my BF, is when the reservations will start. They don't know if launch day will start on the 10th or wait until the day of or something else
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Yea you will. Potentially at least. Depends on when they start the reservation sign ups. And with the booked time system you won't have to stand in a line and all that. The appts are scaled to how many folks will be available to help customers that day with some aet aside for helping non watch folks. Kind of like how the Genius Bar does it.
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That's part of what they want. It's why the two weeks of try ons.
Apple's been getting **** about the lines, fights etc. being able to preview then order online to be delivered to you directly is part of their attempts to cut the lines and the crap
You are correct . And excellent observation about the attempt to generate clicks.
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With the iPhone you got to choose the exact spec and colour, with the Apple watch do you have to choose that also? I thought part of the reservation experience was trying different models. So the question is, what happens when you make a reservation later in the day and they run out of the model you want?
So just say you're interested in the Edition, that way you get VIP treatment and don't have to wait in line as you get prioritised.
Then, in your appointment, try the Edition for fun, then ask to try the cheap one you really want.
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You mean the iPad that is now declining in sales along with the rest of the tablet market as people finally realise they're pointless and do nothing their phone or computer can't do?
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Yes it can. It fits in your pocket, it has a touch screen, it can make phone calls on the cellular network, it can run data off the cellular network, it has GPS and an accelerometer... It does an awful lot your laptop can't.
The Watch, however, whichever way you try and dress it up, does very little.
Then, in your appointment, try the Edition for fun, then ask to try the cheap one you really want.
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You mean the iPad that is now declining in sales along with the rest of the tablet market as people finally realise they're pointless and do nothing their phone or computer can't do?
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I am not sold on the iPhone as it really can't do anything that I can't do on my laptop....
Yes it can. It fits in your pocket, it has a touch screen, it can make phone calls on the cellular network, it can run data off the cellular network, it has GPS and an accelerometer... It does an awful lot your laptop can't.
The Watch, however, whichever way you try and dress it up, does very little.
iPad, the $300 billion "failure". Yes, let's pray Apple isn't blindly running down the same doomed path with the Apple Watch.
Sorry, I could never get it, how people can turn brands into religion and banal stores into a temple.
Even more: personally I find it embarrassing all that yelling and high-fiving at those launches. And if you people believe, that such pathetic shows do have something in common with any kind of personal sympathy towards you, - you're dead wrong.
P.S. I don't hate neither Apple, nor its products. Actually, I've been using Apple products for 10 years now, but I never understood that...
LOL no wait to edition customers but you can try on/buy whatever you want.
'I'll try the gold watch...'
*enter the store with no wait while other s*ckers sit in the line*
'OH WHAT!!! 20 GRAND AND IT'S NOT EVEN REAL 18 CARAT GOLD... oh... I'll take one of the aluminium ones though, that's what I came for actually... just needed to get that rant off my head...'
'I'll try the gold watch...'
*enter the store with no wait while other s*ckers sit in the line*
'OH WHAT!!! 20 GRAND AND IT'S NOT EVEN REAL 18 CARAT GOLD... oh... I'll take one of the aluminium ones though, that's what I came for actually... just needed to get that rant off my head...'
What's stopping someone from making an Apple Watch Edition privledged appointment, only for the preferential treatment? I imagine there are fewer slots, of course, but I'm curious if there's something in place for Apple to weed out unlikely buyers? Of course Tiffany's and Chanel retail employees discuss products with store visitors of various presentations, but on the other hand they don't set up exclusive appointments...
So in the end you walk into a store and give Apple $500/1000 for a smart watch thinking you've fooled them? Oh, I'm sure they'll be absolutely devastated! /s
This makes a lot of sense.
Look, Ive is obviously full of it at times, but he's correct that this is the most "intimate" device Apple has ever made. People will want to try it on, particularly given the different sizes and different bands. With supplies likely constrained, it just doesn't seem feasible to let customers haggle over who gets to try on which watch for how long, all while some employee looks on the make sure nothing happens to the watch or band. You can't exactly put one of their iPhone lock/cables on these things.
Look, Ive is obviously full of it at times, but he's correct that this is the most "intimate" device Apple has ever made. People will want to try it on, particularly given the different sizes and different bands. With supplies likely constrained, it just doesn't seem feasible to let customers haggle over who gets to try on which watch for how long, all while some employee looks on the make sure nothing happens to the watch or band. You can't exactly put one of their iPhone lock/cables on these things.