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I must confess, I've never understood the compulsion to, as they say, take a leak in someone else's cheerios.
If you don't want to buy an Apple watch, that's fine. No one is going to put a gun to your head to buy it. I rather imagine Apple will find plenty of takers for it. There are a lot of products out there that I have no interest in, but I generally don't create a thread about a product then dump on it, nor do I hop on a thread about a product and pound my chest about how I would never buy it.
I haven't made up my mind if I'm going to buy it or not. Hopefully this event will be Apple's way of making the case _why_ I would want to buy it. If it really is going to be priced at $350, then that's not a bad price point for watches that do something other than tell time. For example, my hiking watch, a Casio Pathfinder, which unlike the standard $20 Timex, has things like a barometer/altimeter and compass built in, cost around $200. I'm willing to pay that because it solves some problems that I need solved.
A co-worker was demoing the android smart watch that he had bought a couple of months back. It was interesting to see which features he liked and found useful. I suspect that if the Apple watch is a hit, it will be in unexpected ways. For example, I don't think that when the iPad was launched, Apple thought of it as a ebook reader/game machine/web browser, yet for a lot of people, that's the primary use.
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