Topic: The Apple Watch (iWatch), Will It Flop? Is Apple Devolving? - page 2. (Read 1384 times)

ok, apparently you are not an Apple groupie; but even as a "late adopter" could you see yourself buying a iwatch by any manufacturer at anytime?  Does the product resonate with you or is it more flashy gimmickry with no practical substance over existing gadgets?

Nope, and I probably won't be buying one. In fact, I'm usually a late adopter when it comes to technology. I only bought my first MP3 player in 2005 and it wasn't even an iPod. I bought my first smartphone in 2011 and my first tablet in 2014 and neither were Apple products. I recognize that they are innovative in their industry but by the time the technology has grown and developed to the point where I can see a personal need for it, it's usually the case that the competition has mostly caught up.

I was 9 years old when I began posting on Internet forums. Back then, I remember browsing a forum and there was a thread about how the iPod was going to be a flop and how the name was silly, etc. It was ~30 pages long and some people agreed with the OP while others disagreed. Of course, we all know how successful the iPod would later become.

At around 2007, Apple decided to introduce the iPhone. It looked different from every other phone out there. It had a massive screen (at the time) and just a single button where other phones would have dozens. Many people thought it was going to be a flop but eventually it became a huge success too.

At around the same time, Microsoft was selling tablet PCs and they were a flop. They released special tablet versions of their operating systems and the machines would flip around and you needed a stylus to operate them. Then Apple decided to introduce tablets too. Again the same threads popped up saying that the experiment had already been tried and failed and that that their iPad was going to be a flop because of this. In fact, many of the same arguments that I see being made against the Apple Watch were almost identical to those that were made against the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

Although I guess things might be different now that Jobs is no longer around, I'd be surprised if their new Watch doesn't do the same. Ever since Apple came out with their colorful iMac G3's in 1998, history has been very kind to Apple so far.

Of course it will sell. Why wouldn't it? The thing you're forgetting is how many iFool fanboys are out there. Shouldn't most iphones flop when half of them are exactly the same as the last one that they bring out year after year? I think Smart Watches are kinda pointless really. Either get a watch or just use your phone (which most people do nowadays anyway). Smartwatches might be a fad but Apple will still sell a shit load of them until people realize how pointless they are.

It sounds easy enough. I know I can make it happen

Whoa, if that is their plan that would be manipulative genius, and fitting of the mindset of current upper mgmt team.  

 




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Personally I think it would sell, well a few anyways, but I really think it's a strategic move. The point is not to sell a really expensive watch, I think what they're trying to do is to further increase their brands image as expensive, elite, elegant, desired and powerful, which will further boost future phone sells (which most people are able to afford) to gain all these status, at a cheaper price tag.

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Apple Watch: iGarbage for iFools.

After writing the title I decided to look up the word "devolve", for many years I thought it was the opposite of "evolve" but now I'm unsure.  Anyway, that's the way I'm using it in this context.  

The subject is 'The Apple watch', why is the world do we need a watch anymore?  Wasn't Apple instrumental in having us see how much a 'watch' is unnecessary for life?

What are they going to introduce next a high end multi-function 35mm camera?  I don't like the direction Apple is going creatively and/or politically this concerns me because I have a lot invested in Apple.   When the Dow Jones industrial average dumped AT&T for Apple I was really impressed, but now I'm thinking that might have marked the apex for the corp.  

The Apple watch is mega cool, great tech product, but I can't see it growing year after year, in fact I can't see it lasting two years, it's bound to be a flop.  It will likely sell to hardcore Apple enthusiasts for it's first edition collector's value and being able to say "I bought everything Apple introduced", but I can't see it surviving past the first edition.

If the watch flops Apple has the ability to cover it up quickly and quietly but the bigger question is are they out of bright ideas?