Apple Watch— a "Botch Job?" Ping!
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The more I think about it, the Apple watch is like Obamacare for your wrist.
Tim Cook riding on Steve Job’s wave
The term “watch” itself is kind of antiquated. The “Apple Band” might have been better.
Beta News is as usual Spot on.
Apple has only sold 2.3 million Apple Watches at $500 a unit.
Poor Apple is down to their last $178 billion in cash and has a market cap of $740 billion.
Beta News must be worth a least a trillion dollars.
Stupid premise.
Jobs sold more computers than they could make the first year.
Ridiculous Ping.
ROTFLMAO!!!
The article must have been composed by the [recently revised] Russian version of Siri.
Rush explained the problems with the watch manufacture today. They have not been able to make the flexible OLED display so it will maintain color purity. Then, they are having trouble making what is called the Taptic Engine. It will tap your skin to reflect your heartbeat or, if you’re to turn left, if you’re walking someplace and the map is on with directions, a left part of the wrist will tap.
They will work out the manufacture problems and then people will be sporting them like status symbols with some costing as high as $25,000. I can see the rich Leftie with his high end watch pounding his fist on the table with expletives about their hatred of those greedy rich who don’t want to be taxed.
Every time I hear of Apple’s failure I wish I failed my way to a trillion dollar company.
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Why does anyone need a watch that does what their phone can do?
I can scuba dive with my Citizen Eco Drive.
Not so with the watch that the proud faggot Tim Cook has perpetrated on Apple stock holders.
LOL
Here’s a product that the Cupertino-based company has described as its most personal yet. It’s so personal, that the only way you can buy it is online. The least personal shopping experience there is.
No, that claim is false. Apple is making appointments for people to actually try on the Apple Watch in store. . . and they can pre-order them at the Apple Store. This article is another FUD article showing they really don't know what they are talking about.
This guy is claiming that 2.3 million pre-sales in less than one hour (1.2 million in the USA alone, and it was offered for pre-order in nine countries at the same time including China so that 2.3 million is probably a LOW estimate) is a FLOP? At a $435 average selling price (and some analysts are claiming $702), that is $1 BILLION in revenue in the FIRST HOUR! If the other analysts are correct, it's $1.6 BILLION in under an hour. Some Botch job!
Apple did not expect that kind of demand in that short of a time. They've gotten more pre-orders since that first hour in the week since it went on pre-order sale.
In store try-ons are by appointment only. . . and the appointments are in 15 minute blocks. Those are limited in available time slots. In addition, no one has said that Apple has NOT kept back an inventory of Apple Watches for first day appointment sales at their stores. I don't know that they have or have not. . . but articles like this one claimed the same thing when pre-sale orders for the last iPhones out sold expectations. They too claimed there would be none available for opening day. . . but Apple had more than enough on hand for opening day and the next and the next. . . and so on. There were always some iPhones delivered to the retail stores each day. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple doesn't have enough Apple Watches on hand for each of its Apple Retail Stores for at least the first weekend and the time slots with appointments.
With 435 Retail Stores, open 10 hours a day for 3 days of the weekend, thats 40 fifteen minute time slots per day, or 120 per weekend. . . and perhaps four employees at each store trained to show the Apple Watch. So each store could see 480 customers.
Apple has been limiting customers to two watches per sale. That's 960 Apple Watches per store per weekend. . . they'd need a mix of models. . . so lets say they need twice that to assure coverage. 1,920, round up to 2000 per store times 435 stores. That's just 870,000 Apple Watches to cover every Apple store. That's certainly do-able for Apple's manufacturing and supply chain, especially if they planned for it in advance and Apple usually does extremely good planning.
Boy do I miss Steve Jobs already!
“Frankly, everything else associated with the launch has been a balls up from start to finish.”
Interesting expression...considering who’s running the company.
We forget that at the time both the original iPhone and the original iPad shipped, other companies had been making smartphones (Palm Treo, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices) and touchscreen-like computers (Windows XP laptops with stylus input) for several years. The Apple Watch is coming to the market--and the nearest true competitors have only been on the market for at most 18 months. As such, Apple is still on the learning curve on getting the user interface right just like everyone else.
Apple does what they want, when they want.
The CEO is more concerned with supporting the militant gay agenda than running the company. I don’t know why corporate boards don’t reign in loud-mouth idiot CEOs like Cook. Jobs never got involved in leftwing political activism, at least not publicly that I know of.