Not sure where you're located but I see multiple daily in and around the SF Bay Area and when visiting family in the Midwest. The high end retail locations no longer make sense, especially since Apple has pivoted away from the luxury/Apple Watch edition strategy. Data and Apple's own marketing suggest sport and aluminum models are what's selling. This move makes total sense.
Oh I bet you do see manyhipsters everyday sporting apple products in the SF Bay Area. 90 minutes away from the Apple campus. That's where most of the watches must be.
The apple watch is so ugly and colorful, it's easy to spot. That causes a bias that leads one to think that everyone has them everywhere when they're still rather rare. I'm in Canada and I know about a dozen people that have one, but I work in tech. I know a couple of people with Huawei watches, I don't draw a conclusion of market penetratoin from that. Normal people have fitbits, at most, and are no sure why they have one.
Stop with the "only hipsters buy Apple products" crap. It's getting old. Apple makes products for everyone.
When I'm out I see several of these if I'm looking and I don't live in California.
for those saying Apple Watch isn't a fashion accessory and rationalizing why it shouldn't be a high end Watch, please. Apple's goal was it to be anything you want it to be. Want it to be a great sports watch? You got it. Want to proudly wear it at a fancy restaurant? You got it.
The fact they're winding down high end models is NO GOOD.
I've seen more than a few Apple Watches in the real world recently. More than I expected to see.
I am a 57 year old who works in health care at a large mid western hospital. I own apple stock and my wife and I own iphones. Two months ago I bought a apple wacth and I love it. At work it is not uncommon to see half a dozen others wearing a apple watch, I know Physicians, nurses and others who wear them. I also see them at the gym, So yes, I think apple is on to something.
My story is about the same as yours except I really didn't want the Watch I felt my Powerbeats performed all the main functions I used - music, text, email, phone calls, not tethered to my phone because I could wonder around the house. My friend is a pharmacy manager and they are not allowed to take their phones out in the pharmacy so I bought him the Watch because they can't wear beats headset as they are on the phone constantly.
Wgen series 2 came out I broke down and bought the NIKE awatch. How the hell did I get by before without this? Damn I hate being wrong. LOL this fill all the gaps my headset didn't and then some. I use them together but I swear the Siri is 100% more accurate than the phone. I mean Powerbeats makes Siri about 90% accurate but I can actually talk to my Watch and never say it twice or cancel to start over. Why is that?? I mean even in noisy situations like a movie theater before previews. Everyone yapping loudly but it finds my voice perfect every time.
But my FAVORITE feature is maps. It vibrates before the next direction and one glance shows a HUGE arrow pointing left or right. LOVE THIS FEATURE. Because sometimes everyone is talking in the car I can't hear Siri but my Watch vibrates, I glance at it and can clearly see what direction to go.
Those of of you who put off buying it I swear it's worth the price and I love the health features too. I find myself trying to "close those rings" each day and normally I'm not an exercise freak.
My SS 42mm Gen 1 stopped working a little over two months ago while I was on vacation abroad. I finally took in to the Apple Store yesterday after returning to the US. They sent it to the repair facility. Not sure when I will get it back, but after not using it for more than two months I don't really miss it. There was no Apple Pay in the countries I was visiting and my iPhone did not have cellular there either, so the Watch was basically used for telling time, and I rarely care what time it is anyway. I'm sure I'll start wearing it again once I get it back. It's OK but it is certainly not an essential item for me.
I am glad I bought AppleCare+ though, otherwise it would have been a lot of money wasted for only one year of occasional use.
When I took it in to the Geniuses they tried to imply that I was somehow to blame for the malfunction. 1. Has it ever gotten wet? No it has not, but I thought you could shower with it on.
2. Has it ever been dropped? No, and as you can see there is not a knick or scratch on it. It is in absolute showroom condition.
3. Did you ever use sunscreen while wearing it? No, but what the hell? An $800 wristwatch can't be exposed to sunscreen? Unbelievable!
Presumably this is due to few watches being sold at these locations. I've seen I think two other Apple watches in the wild.
I live in London and I see multiple Apple Watches on my commute every day.
I visited the Selfridges pop-up when it opened to try on an Apple Watch. It was exactly that though: a temporary pop-up space. I'm surprised it lasted so long as it took up a large proportion of prime window space along Oxford Street.
But this article makes it sound like the watch is no longer available at Selfridges at all, with Apple's own recorded message to the pop-up suggesting customers go to Apple's website or their local brick and mortar store. Wouldn't they just suggest they visit the Selfridges watch counter?
I see people with Apple Watches all over these days. I work at a small company and I now know someone else, a woman who is wearing a Apple Watch every day. Of course she told me she really doesn't know how to use it. I have the Original and it's been great. I miss it when I don't have it on. I'm not a watch person and would still never wear a plain old watch. I do notice it on more and more people. I also notice it on actors in TV shows and Movies. For example, Gal Gadot wears a Apple Watch with black strap in "Keeping Up With The Joneses", and James Franco wears a black Apple Watch with black strap in "Why Him?". I know I've seen it in some TV shows, but I just can't remember right now.
Not sure where you're located but I see multiple daily in and around the SF Bay Area and when visiting family in the Midwest. The high end retail locations no longer make sense, especially since Apple has pivoted away from the luxury/Apple Watch edition strategy. Data and Apple's own marketing suggest sport and aluminum models are what's selling. This move makes total sense.
Oh I bet you do see manyhipsters everyday sporting apple products in the SF Bay Area. 90 minutes away from the Apple campus. That's where most of the watches must be.
The apple watch is so ugly and colorful, it's easy to spot. That causes a bias that leads one to think that everyone has them everywhere when they're still rather rare. I'm in Canada and I know about a dozen people that have one, but I work in tech. I know a couple of people with Huawei watches, I don't draw a conclusion of market penetratoin from that. Normal people have fitbits, at most, and are no sure why they have one.
Stop with the "only hipsters buy Apple products" crap. It's getting old. Apple makes products for everyone.
When I'm out I see several of these if I'm looking and I don't live in California.
for those saying Apple Watch isn't a fashion accessory and rationalizing why it shouldn't be a high end Watch, please. Apple's goal was it to be anything you want it to be. Want it to be a great sports watch? You got it. Want to proudly wear it at a fancy restaurant? You got it.
The fact they're winding down high end models is NO GOOD.
I'm one of those who believe, not that it shouldn't be a fashion accessory, but that that is not where it can excel... Too me it's a bit like making a blue PC and calling it beautiful instead of a Jetson Easy Bake Oven... It's still just a computer.
But neither do I believe that the Apple Watch has fulfilled its potential. That is yet to come. Part of that will happen as Apple expands and opens up the watch's metrics (such as heart rate) to third party apps and those apps start to proliferate. As an example: Where would the IPhone be today without third party apps? It would probably still be competing with Blackberries and variations of Palm Pilots. I think the Apple Watch is pretty much where the Iphone was a year or two after its introduction: Great potential but nothing that advanced products of the day didn't already offer.
Conversely, Apple has already begun opening up its potential in health/medical care & medical research as well as in exercise. But, it needs to do better in BOTH areas... Frankly, it cannot compete well with existing products in either area. Well, ok, sure it can compete. But I don't think it will ever achieve market dominance (like the IPhone did) until it master those two areas and also expands its available third party apps.
Battery technology isn't advanced enough to turn a smartwatch into a mini mobile phone.
Best people just buy a fitbit blaze which lasts for up to 5 days without charge to cover the basic smartwatch needs, like notifications, alarms, heart rate and step counts.
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When I'm out I see several of these if I'm looking and I don't live in California.
for those saying Apple Watch isn't a fashion accessory and rationalizing why it shouldn't be a high end Watch, please.
Apple's goal was it to be anything you want it to be. Want it to be a great sports watch? You got it. Want to proudly wear it at a fancy restaurant? You got it.
The fact they're winding down high end models is NO GOOD.
Wgen series 2 came out I broke down and bought the NIKE awatch. How the hell did I get by before without this? Damn I hate being wrong. LOL this fill all the gaps my headset didn't and then some. I use them together but I swear the Siri is 100% more accurate than the phone. I mean Powerbeats makes Siri about 90% accurate but I can actually talk to my Watch and never say it twice or cancel to start over. Why is that?? I mean even in noisy situations like a movie theater before previews. Everyone yapping loudly but it finds my voice perfect every time.
But my FAVORITE feature is maps. It vibrates before the next direction and one glance shows a HUGE arrow pointing left or right. LOVE THIS FEATURE. Because sometimes everyone is talking in the car I can't hear Siri but my Watch vibrates, I glance at it and can clearly see what direction to go.
Those of of you who put off buying it I swear it's worth the price and I love the health features too. I find myself trying to "close those rings" each day and normally I'm not an exercise freak.
I am glad I bought AppleCare+ though, otherwise it would have been a lot of money wasted for only one year of occasional use.
When I took it in to the Geniuses they tried to imply that I was somehow to blame for the malfunction.
1. Has it ever gotten wet? No it has not, but I thought you could shower with it on.
2. Has it ever been dropped? No, and as you can see there is not a knick or scratch on it. It is in absolute showroom condition.
3. Did you ever use sunscreen while wearing it? No, but what the hell? An $800 wristwatch can't be exposed to sunscreen? Unbelievable!
But neither do I believe that the Apple Watch has fulfilled its potential. That is yet to come. Part of that will happen as Apple expands and opens up the watch's metrics (such as heart rate) to third party apps and those apps start to proliferate. As an example: Where would the IPhone be today without third party apps? It would probably still be competing with Blackberries and variations of Palm Pilots. I think the Apple Watch is pretty much where the Iphone was a year or two after its introduction: Great potential but nothing that advanced products of the day didn't already offer.
Conversely, Apple has already begun opening up its potential in health/medical care & medical research as well as in exercise. But, it needs to do better in BOTH areas... Frankly, it cannot compete well with existing products in either area. Well, ok, sure it can compete. But I don't think it will ever achieve market dominance (like the IPhone did) until it master those two areas and also expands its available third party apps.
Best people just buy a fitbit blaze which lasts for up to 5 days without charge to cover the basic smartwatch needs, like notifications, alarms, heart rate and step counts.