Apple announces 'spring forward' event for March 9, likely to talk about Apple Watch & more

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  • Reply 61 of 127
    radarthekatradarthekat Posts: 3,943moderator

    The timing of the event, along with the clear reference to the watch, suggests to me that Apple will hold off on other introductions until maybe the developer conference. Anything introduced now would be overshadowed by the watch and also would detract from the impact of the Watch by itself. Apple won't want the press spending ink on anything other than the Watch for the next few months.



    Or, this whole event could just be an announcement of a fix to that annoying calendar bug that erroneously shifts appointment times at the switchover to/from daylight saving time. LOL!

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  • Reply 62 of 127
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    Why is it ridiculous?  A Rolex Presidential cost $15k - $25k.  

     

    $10,000 is about right for a true GOLD luxury watch.  The gold alone will cost about $2500 alone.

     

    I don't think the Gold watch will be $2500.  Even if they use a mere 1/2 ounce or about $600 worth of gold.  That will be a too mass market product.  I think Apple is aiming the SS watch to be the mass market dress watch.


    I apologize for being unclear. Your assumptions are quite correct, to my opinion. What feels a bit ridiculous to me is buying a gold watch in the first place, because it's heavy and quite "in-your-face-look-at-my-diamond-tooth-punk". It is, however, a very personal opinion. I'd go titanium over gold any day of the week, if I have to spend a lot of money, because it is light, durable, and very hard, all things gold isn't.

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  • Reply 63 of 127
    queue wrote: »
    "The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends."

    I think it's just the watch. Perhaps launching on first day of DST.

    Mmm ... I always thought it was Fall Forward and Spring Back ...

    That 'splains a lot of things ...
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  • Reply 64 of 127
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    I agree.  The luxury watch industry has advanced for the last hundred years along several dimensions; style, materials, and the spectrum defined by the number of movements a watch has.  Not sure what the world's record is for the number of distinct movements in a mechanical watch, but I'd be surprised if it's more than a couple dozen.  Hours, minutes, seconds, stopwatch, phases of the moon, day of week, month, year, etc...  The smart watch, done well as a luxury item that meets the style and materials standards, which only the Apple Watch will, at least initially, shifts the 'movements' paradigm, bringing an unlimited number of movements that are not constrained to being associated merely with aspects of time.  Those offering only old-world capabilities will quickly find their customer base expecting more than what they deliver, in which case they'd better either partner up or find a new line of business.




    I'm pretty convinced by the WiThings watch, though. I find it super clean, while modern. Of course, I'm still rocking a seven year old Fossil which runs perfectly smooth, and the Apple Watch will take its place as soon as it's available, so unless I win the lottery and can have an arm graft to put a second watch on my third arm...

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  • Reply 65 of 127
    queue wrote: »
    "The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends."

    I think it's just the watch. Perhaps launching on first day of DST.

    I think your association with the term in correct insofar that it refers to ?Watch, but I wouldn't read anymore into it than that.
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  • Reply 66 of 127
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    You're welcome, because I deserve thanks and accolades for making an unsubstantiated prediction based only on my desire for them to be true¡ image (I hope it's obvious that I'm having a laugh at people that makes such statements as fact)



    It's obvious that your strong desire has somehow forced Apple into announcing their event ;)

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  • Reply 67 of 127
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    Location of brlawyer: Switzerland. Nuff said.




    Meaning?

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  • Reply 68 of 127
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    Meaning?


    Make your own sausage man ^^

    I left it purposely unclear ;)

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  • Reply 69 of 127
    satchmosatchmo Posts: 2,699member

    Spring forward = Take out your credit card and spend away

     

    or 

     

    Apple Spring - The all new forward thinking self-driving car from Apple. :p 

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  • Reply 70 of 127

    From the Article :

    "It's expected that the new MacBook Air will feature a redesigned chassis and come in one screen size of 12 inches."

     

    "Beyond the Apple Watch and a rumored MacBook Air with Retina display, Apple has also been gearing up for a refresh of its existing-design 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air models"

     

    I know you are actually referring to a 12" Air WITH Retina and a 11 & 13" without Retina, but surely these 2 statements don't make sense.

    Why make an 11-NonRetina, 12-Retina and 13-Non Retina?? Not really very Apple.

    It would make more sense that they would drop the 11 & 13 and JUST make a 12-Retina??

     

    Anyway, I think the invite and wording means an announcement of the return of the StyleWriter and Performa range...... ;-)

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  • Reply 71 of 127
    satchmo wrote: »
    Apple Spring - The all new forward thinking self-driving car from Apple. :p 

    Based on reactions to predicted costs of the 42mm stainless steel and sapphire ?Watch with a stainless steel or leather and steel band, as well as the predicted cost of 18kt gold and sapphire watch there very well could be an Arab Apple Spring.
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  • Reply 72 of 127
    Is TB3/DP1.3 available yet? I'd love to see the Apple Display updated to 5K (or more, if they go with 21:9), but we need 40Gib/s for that to happen.
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  • Reply 73 of 127
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    I think the Gold will sell for $10,000.

     

    It will not be a mass market item, more like a special addition.  It will use more gold then most people think.  I'm thinking close to 2 ounces.  That's about the same amount of gold as a rolex presidential.

     

    I think they will sell about 2-3 million gold watches per year.  That's $30,000,000,000 in revenue and $15,000,000,000 in operating profit.

     

    If the price is too cheap like $2500 it will be too common.  They want it to be a halo product and be rare.


    It will be the rare edition that no one buys.  It already has a stupid name, 'Apple Watch Edition'.  The watch edition?  They are all watches. Apple tried the 'rare' product and priced it at $10,000.  It was was a flop, no one bought it.  It was called the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.  The price was slashed to $1,999 and then some people bought it.  The edition watch is real gold, so the price won't be slashed, but don't expect anyone to buy it....except for maybe a few millionaires.  They will not sell 2 to 3 million of them every year.  Keep dreaming.  The problem Apple has is the wearable market is dead, not many people wear watches, no one wants to carry another device that is duplicated by another device, and it requires an iPhone to work.  My iPhone already does everything and more than the watch can do, so why would anyone waste $350 or more on a duplicate device that has a battery that won't last a day?  It's not exactly attractive looking either.  Tough sell...which is why other watches haven't done well.  There is a reason why Apple has placed the watch in the 'other' category on their expense reports...grouped with iPods and AppleTVs.  The lemmings will buy the cheap model and say, "Look, it tells the time from my iPhone when I wake it up" ... by 4 PM ... "Oh, the battery is already dead".

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  • Reply 74 of 127
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    Originally Posted by lightknight View Post

     

    I apologize for being unclear. Your assumptions are quite correct, to my opinion. What feels a bit ridiculous to me is buying a gold watch in the first place, because it's heavy and quite "in-your-face-look-at-my-diamond-tooth-punk". It is, however, a very personal opinion. I'd go titanium over gold any day of the week, if I have to spend a lot of money, because it is light, durable, and very hard, all things gold isn't.




    But the gangster rappers love gold....and Apple did buy Beats...so it will go well with the headphones on their head too.

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  • Reply 75 of 127
    eightzeroeightzero Posts: 3,209member

    Place your bets: Tim comes out at the start wearing a long sleeve shirt? Appears wearing an Apple Watch? And if so, what model?

     

    Jony Ive video?

     

    For sure we are going to see some demos of apps. Wonder which ones?

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  • Reply 76 of 127
    irelandireland Posts: 17,802member
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    I'll be shocked the gold Apple Watch Edition costs a dime over $2500. $10,000? Noooooo way!



    Gruber seems a bit too adamant. I have never heard him this adamant about pricing. Expect upwards or $8,000 for the gold model.

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  • Reply 77 of 127
    sog35 wrote: »

    If Apple sells 15 million Watches in its first year you will ban yourself for 1 month.
    If not I will ban myself for 1 month.

    Deal?

    if you think Watch will fail like you said man up.  15 million would be the fastest selling Apple product ever.

    The problem with your 'analysis' is its based on the POS android watches that have already come out.  You have ZERO idea what the Watch will do and what type of apps it will run in a year or two.

    1) What's your deal with self banning?

    2) If you make it a $350 bet and I'm in. I say that Apple will not sell 15 million units in the first four quarters it's on the market. This includes any partial quarter in which is starts selling the device. Note that the original iPad only did about 14.5 million units in its first four quarters on the market and it's the fastest selling CE ever made.
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  • Reply 78 of 127
    mj web wrote: »
    I'll be shocked the gold Apple Watch Edition costs a dime over $2500. $10,000? Noooooo way!

    • How much gold is there available each year?
    • How much gold would Apple need for ?Watch this next year?
    • How much does gold cost per ounce? ($ 1,208.97 at 3:46pm ET)
    • What is the mark up value on a gold watch?
    • Can we determine what the price range would have to be to not cause a shortage of the gold models?
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  • Reply 79 of 127
    irelandireland Posts: 17,802member
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    The next two big surprise announcements I am hoping for are an Apple new search engine and a huge Hollywood content deal to go with a big Apple TV quantum leap forward. Those would both be huge growth drivers and both make 100% sense, but of course neither is easy to pull off.



    I don't see any big Apple Car news for years. But search and Apple Tv should be this year.



    Trying to make a search engine that competes with Google would be a HUGE distraction for Apple.

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  • Reply 80 of 127

    Apple Watch gold edition: so hot right now!

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