Paying $500 or more for a ‘smartwatch’ that isn’t smart at all, if beyond stupid.
Paying $10,000 or more for a gold version of the ‘not so smart’ watch, is beyond idiotic.
No matter what price one pays for the Apple watch, the technology becomes obsolete as soon as it’s put in stores or online for sale. So, why would anybody spend even $10 on something that is outdated right upon purchase?
My Armitron watch that I bought 7 years ago, is still functioning perfectly and with the original battery still going strong. I paid ‘just’ $42 for it back then. And, it hasn’t gone obsolete after those ‘many’ years. I see the same thing still being sold in stores, for approximately the same price I paid 7 years ago.
With the Apple watch, the old saying is most appropriate: “A fool and his money are soon parted”.
10k to you an me might very well be a lot of money. To some people, it really is not. We might think its insane to spend 100k on a watch, but prople do. If you watch Top gear, you will know that yhere is obviouly a market for 500k or even million dollar cars. The folk who will spend that kind of money on a car would think nothing about spending $10 grand on a watch. I would actually imagine that if I were one of those people, for whom a Rolex is a cheap swiss watch, and I wanted a iwatch, I’d probably want one in gold because stainless would probaby clash with my wardrome. I figure for Apple, the decision to attempt to enter that market wss probably a no-brainer.
The margins on those is certainly high enough to make the enfineering for it worth their while.
One thingnthat wouldnhave been interesting, would have been to put some kind of automatic movement in it to self-charge the watch from your movements. That would have probably have required the watch to be a bit thicker than whay they were aiming for. I suspect strongly that Apple is still looking at it.