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I got the Series 2 in January. I love it, but can also see why it might be more of a niche product. $400 for a watch isn't exactly cheap and I know many people who opt for their smartphone over any kind of watch.
It's not out of the ordinary to spend $400 on something like a Seiko or Citizen watch - and those are just "dumb" watches
My new dependency.
Personal anecdote: I bought an Apple Watch early and didn't really know what to do with it. It wasn't until I fell off my bike and broke it did I realize how much more exercise I was getting with it. I bought another one soon after.
> It wasn't until I fell off my bike and broke it did I realize how much more exercise I was getting with it. How does that relate?
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Them being dumb watches is the appeal though. A good "dumb" watch will last decades. An Apple Watch is obsolete after, what, two years? I wear a battery-powered analog quartz dumb watch on my wrist and I love it. I change the battery every couple years and that's it. It tells perfectly accurate time (way more accurate than a mechanical watch costing orders of magnitude more) and will never be obsolete.
I think an obsolete apple watch will still be able to at least mirror the functionality of any 'dumb' watch.
I got the Series 2 in January. I love it, but can also see why it might be more of a niche product. $400 for a watch isn't exactly cheap and I know many people who opt for their smartphone over any kind of watch.
It's not out of the ordinary to spend $400 on something like a Seiko or Citizen watch - and those are just "dumb" watches
That kind of depends on your definition of ordinary. Is it ordinary for somebody who buys a watch to spend $400 on it? absolutely. Is wearing a $400 watch ordinary? maybe not so much. Apple claimed to be selling more than Seiko or Citizen two years ago, and the apple watch was definitely a niche then. Apple has done well in the watch market but that's a long ways from iPhone-level success.
The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple slowly turned its niche product into a cultural force.
Just wait until the iPod Classic 5G equivalent of the Watch comes out.
- Severe lag when triggering Siri
- Slow mail updates, to the point where I pull my phone out of my pocket anyway
- "This message contains elements Apple Watch cannot display". Seen way too often and it is frustrating.
- The wrist band mechanism failed to lock after ~4mo. Apple sent me a replacement Watch no questions asked which was great, but it took ~1mo to do so.
- The digital crown no longer rotates smoothly and instead feels like there's stuff clogging it. Washing the watch helps for a short while.
- Slow location updates, meaning a quick glance for at the local high/low weather is still often cities away after I arrive somewhere. Use case: Will I need my jacket with me later, or can I leave it in my car?
The heart rate monitor is great and my favorite feature, but not worth the $400 I paid for it.
I've been seeing them all over. I think they're going to be a sleeper hit with people
Same here. And haven't seen android on a wrist for many months.
