12-29-2012, 04:20 PM | #16 |
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I don't believe this for an instant. There's a very small market for people who are going to strap something to their wrist on the off chance they might get a text message at a time when it's inconvenient to pull your phone out of your pocket. Apple's headphones give you a simple way to control your music (pause, volume, skip, backskip, FF/RW; Siri works well for songs); if you need something more, you probably need the entire phone.
And the whole "premium, trendy, fashionista" stuff is just wrong. Trendy fashionistas don't wear geeky $200 watches. They wear watches that look like this and cost $4000: (The whole Apple-is-a-luxury shtick is misguided in the same way. Buying a $75,000 Lexus instead of a $20,000 Honda is luxury. Buying a $450,000 house instead of a $200,000 house a luxury where I live (apply the appropriate multipliers for your location...)). Paying $200 more because you want a slightly nicer laptop is not nearly the same thing, any more than paying $1 more for coffee from Starbucks as opposed to McDonald's is really a "luxury.") |
12-29-2012, 05:28 PM | #17 |
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we'll see..we were laughing our eyes out to ipad and we know how it ended up...i think it's the right move by apple...and every iphone owner who don't wearing a watch until now will start thinking of getting apple smart watch. of course, i don't think someone will trade its own rolex or whatever those watch afficionados wearing for some apple junk watch, but there are tons of people who are not into watches but like it as a gadget accessory...and hundreds of millions of the iphone owners are strong potential market...
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12-29-2012, 05:55 PM | #18 |
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12-29-2012, 06:01 PM | #19 |
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in this case, there are no standards. some smartwatch are working with android only and thats it, i don't know what kind of standards you are talking about? smartwatch is not standalone devices, they are working like phone accessory and depends on communications with said phones operating systems... |
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