Pre-order consumergasm will leave Apple Watches out of stock for months An estimated one million consumers have flashed the plastic to pre-order an Apple Watch, leaving the fruity firm without stock to meet additional demand for months. According to Slice Intelligence, roughly one million fanbois in the US have pre-ordered one or more of the smartwatches. Or The Watch That Watches You Back, as …
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Hey, don't knock it! I'm really looking forward to seeing Will It Blend? "review" a $17K Apple Watch Edition.
"According to ereceipt data from 9,080 online shoppers, each Apple Watch buyer ordered an average of 1.3 watches," Slice revealed
One Million people is approx 1/7000th the population of the earth
1/9080 is near-as-dammit the same as 1/7000
So if just one of those 9080 online shoppers pre-ordered an Apple Watch..... Bingo! ONE MILLION people pre-ordered (estimate).
Sometimes bad spelling is just bad spelling, no matter which side of the Pond you're on.
"Ahhh fruityboy Jay...if you are referring to his use of maths...well it would be Vous who is in error...as that is "propper Englsh" on the right side of the Pond."
Looks to be more of a reading comprehension problem on your part for not understanding what he is poking fun at.
Battery life and price are the two deal breakers for me.
If this thing was around 200 for the steel case version with a leather strap and the battery lasted 3-4 days with moderate use I'd probably be tempted - if nothing else just to have a good play and pass on to nephew.
But £560 for steel/leather is way too much, and you'll probably have to top the thing up with charge during the day.
I had a sports watch that needed charging every four days so I say this with certainty that I mean it: a huge battery life improvement is what would be required for me even to consider a smart watch. Probably of several weeks. I don't need one more thing to think about, one more cable to take on holiday, etc, for such a fringe usage device.
As opposed to a wrist mounted LCD second screen for your phone.
If the Apple Watch is ANY sort of watch then so is every other device capable of telling the time. And that includes every mobile phone produced since the 90's. Even so-called feature phones, which even in the days of the most basic mono LCD cell displays could tell the time.
And in that case, what precisely is the distinction that means that my mobile phone is still just a phone and not a "Smart POCKET Watch" ?
Citizen on the other hand have made a watch (the Proximity) that incorporates the key features of a so-called "Smart" watch - email/event notifications - into an actual, proper watch. And one with Eco-Drive... never mind battery life measured even in days or weeks, Eco-Drive watches constantly recharge from ambient light and last effectively forever (unless left in the dark for weeks or months on end, in which case a few minutes under a light source will get it going again, and a few hours will fully replenish the battery).
Thought that was why they're called mugs…
It's known as 'FoMO'* - or 'fomophobia' - apparently, and some shrinks, looking to get a slice of Apple pie, are already touting their treatment services.
*Fear of Missing Out
Here's a perfect example of someone who's - probably - beyond help…
http://mashable.com/2015/04/10/apple-watch-fomo/
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT CONSUMPTION OF FOOD OR BEVERAGES BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO READ THE ABOVE ARTICLE. I WILL ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE THIS WARNING. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Don't worry about after, because after you'll feel so nauseated you won't want to eat or drink anything. Ever again.
Why would anyone mug you for this watch? It's useless once it's taken off. When you put it back on you have to unlock it, so it's as secure as your iPhone really (which as we know from articles on here are less and less of a target for snatches because you can't use them) which is to say one heck of a lot more secure than any other watch out there.
Why would anyone mug you for this watch? It's useless once it's taken off.
People derive zero benefit from keying cars, but it happens every hour of every day. Some people are just spiteful scum, so I can well imagine them mugging people for stuff they can't use simply to spoil your enjoyment of it.
Obviously this isn't particular to the jobsian wank monitor, other than sight of the watch will indicate the presence of the phone too.
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Let first gen buyers saturate the market, then wait for the improved / cheaper next gen models, with acceptable features and battery life.
I'm sure I can cope without a smart watch for another year or two. After all, my current watch battery has at least 2 more years life left in it before I have to consider a new battery or a new watch.
"Let first gen buyers saturate the market, then wait for the improved / cheaper next gen models, with acceptable features and battery life."
Apple doesn't do commodity. The entire point of the 'cool' Apple image is to keep pricing high and keep the punters willing to pay said high pricing.
Mind you, as business strategies go, it's a pretty good one and the bubble is yet to burst.
It was the same with the Macbook Air: the first generation (early 2008) was radical, highly desirable, but with major limitations.
They then quietly fixed those problems in the later generations. The Macbook Air mid-2011 is still a highly usable piece of kit. I expect that the new Macbook and the Watch will be similarly usable in 2-3 years time.
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Just because technology is old, doesn't mean it isn't cool. A precision built watch or clock is just as technically challenging to engineer as a smart watch or other gadget. The quartz movement was brought to the consumer in the 70's. To date, it is still an accurate method of keeping track of time and has been improved upon immensely.
Oh, and all those old timey watches that tell time and maybe the date tend to go for years on a battery, not a day.
"Following Apple's admission that it, and all of its staff, really hate queueing fanbois, the watches were only available to pre-order online and were not for sale in most stores."
So, presumably, since they dislike the queues that much, this will be the only option in future for any new release/version of any iToy - and it's definitely not a cunning ploy to hide the lack of queues for this particular item.
Yeah. We'll see.
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<"According to ereceipt data from 9,080 online shoppers, each Apple Watch buyer ordered an average of 1.3 watches," Slice revealed.>
What a stupid, pointless, meaningless metric. You can't buy 1.3 watches.
A histogram of how many people bought 1, 2, 3 etc watches would be far more meaningful.
...that if the Apple phone has pay by bonk in the phone that requires people to end up keeping them in signal-protected jeans pockets to keep their money safe .. then what will that do to the iWatch when it has to work harder to talk with the phone?
I mean, seriously ... my handbag is a "city-safe" with steel wired straps, slashproof sides, etc. and has protected pockets inside it for cards, etc. specifically to protect against unauthorised bumping (ooh er.) ... and as I live in a poor signal area, things like device chatter-signal strength-blocking thingies ... matter to me.
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I'll stick to my never had the case opened, battery has been pulling strong for 10 years Citizen EcoDrive. Looses a second or two every 6 months and charges in about 15 minutes in direct sunlight (longer under indoor lighting), which is good for 6 months.
It does one thing and it does it very well and will continue to do so for many years I expect.
The breathless (masturbatory-like) articles about how the latest Apple babble is selling faster than the last one. Soon will be flood of "unboxing" videos, then the "My first Day/Week/Month with the Apple Watch".
Personally, I'm waiting for the "This man proposed to his girlfriend using Apple Watch heartbeat share".
That can't be. The leading lights of this forum assured us it will NEVER sell. And that nobody will wear a watch anymore.
I'm still indifferent, and we own six Macs. First is a Fools game. If I ever get one, I'll wait six months and get one cheap off Craigslist or a pawnshop. I still don't see the draw, but apparently I'm in the minority.
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