No one said it does or will . . . but it represents millions of Apple Watches. It is not hype if Apple is selling millions of Apple Watches. Apple has NEVER sold out a product in 10 minutes before. Nor has it offered the same product on the same day in as many countries.
You really don't know what you are talking about. There are ~400,000,000 iOS devices already in consumers' hands that will work with an Apple Watch. If only 10% the owners of those devices buy an Apple Watch that's 40 million, ten times the number of smart watches sold by other makers to date. Knowing Apple, the likelyhood is that Apple's pre-sales have already SOLD 20% of that number. . . before they even get to the release weekend.
What I really want to know is if AAPL is a buy now.
I’m not so interested in buying their watch as buying their stock if it’s going to make me some money.
What do you think? Do you have a link that says how many watches have already been ordered?