Your anecdotal not wearing of a watch does not pluralize into data.
Here is accurate data:
The watch market is an over $22 Billion a year market. There are over 1.2 Billion watches sold annually. China alone manufactured 633 million last year. . . many of the Chinese watches for selling less than an average retail price of $3 but can sell for as much as $5000. That's some "nobody." Sorry, you are just wrong.
Apple's pricing of the Apple Watch is spot on, too. The average Swiss watch sells for $759. . . twice what the entry level Apple Watch sells for, and even the entry level Stainless Steel Apple Watch is still under the price of the average retail Swiss Watch.
I think thenidea is thatnonce celebrities will wear the high end gold apple watches, regular low information idiots will want them
I’m very curious to see how this plays out. I like to say I have a smart watch...but the pocket watch version....being my phone.
I can see the logic though - if you’re going to buy a high end watch, might as well be an Apple watch. But I really do think the universe of watch wearers has two major sectors - The utilitarian ten dollar crowd, and the crowd that wears it as jewelry. And frankly, I don’t think the Apple watch or any smartwatch fits the bill as stylish jewelry.
And I wonder about upgrading...will follow on versions be different enough to entice a buyer into a second iwatch? Or will this be a one time flurry of sales for Apple.
I want to be the first kid on my block to have a watch manufactured in prison/factories in China by children. I want to pay top dollar too, knowing that kid in China’s going to see .00001 percent of that premium price tag too.
All those kids want for Christmas at Foxconn is to wake up and not want to kill themselves during their 12 hour work day.
Apple - made by children the left doesn’t care about for people who advocate for the protection of children the left doesn’t care about in order to take away constitutional rights from US citizens.