Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

First Apple watch:

Anyone here an original pebble backer who is NOT going to back the new pebble time steel?

A lot of people in China did...

$20,000 gold Apple Watch Edition sold out in China in less than an hour

I did, but we got a pretty nice discount so I don't feel as bad

I work for Apple (it's a great job while in school), and they are giving employees at 50% discount for the next 3 months on the watch, then I assume it will go back to the normal 25% personal/15% friends and family discount range.

Vaclav_sl said:

I'm saying I can't see it selling 3-5 million units in it's first wave - it's more expensive than the price most people get their iPhones at (thanks to subsidies), it's utility is situational and even the Moto360 that looks better and is cheaper and works with more phones along with more functionality currently isn't selling that well.

The one dude was implying he could buy one for resale - and I just don't imagine the demand will be there.(And frankly, even if I'm wrong - if they're producing 3-5m of them and they do sell well, they'll be churning out more quickly anyhow - there's not much catching up to do if you can produce that many in the short time they've allocated to producing them)

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Column_sl said:

Well I'll quote you if it does, and FYI that screenshot was taken from the trailer you linked for the newest Pebble...

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Apple sold out completely of the watch in 6 hours....


http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...t-in-six-hours

I just don't understand how the watch is going to do anything with the battery life it supposedly has. 18 hours mixed use means it's gone in 8-10 hours during a normal work day. Everyone I know who has an iPhone (and to be fair many of the flagship Android phones too) is a complete slave to cords, battery extenders, etc.

But nothing new there, batteries have been the number one bottleneck on basically everything electronic these days.

I bet you the preorders allowed are a fraction of the total 3-5m production they quoted.

They don't just sell most of their stuff directly. Big box stores and mobile carriers will most likely be stocking it as well.

Oh shit, I just had a horrifying vision... remember when PTT Nextel devices were all the rage? Imagine entire rooms full of people on iWatch trying to have a speakerphone conversation on their watch in a public area. FML.

I can't believe they didn't waterproof at least the sport version.

I got a chance to see a few of them today, our Apple Business Team rep was coming in for something else and brought a few demo units.

It feels like a nice device, the nicest looking smartwatch I've seen so far (not saying much), and still not something that remotely interests me. He had a sport, one with the stainless links, and one with the milanese (sp?) band. Ironically I thought the sport was the nicest looking, it was the dark gray one with a black band. The band felt much nicer than most sport-type bands, if they keep improving the exercise monitoring stuff and decrease the size a bit it may be useful in a few revisions.

The more 'fashionable' bands were a complete miss for me, I can't see replacing my normal watches with a trumped up Casio.

All that being said, they supposedly hit 1m sales on the first day, and I wouldn't be shocked if they're past 2m by the weekend. Good time to own AAPL.