Why The Apple Watch Is Flopping

I have a Moto 360 and love it. I save a decent amount of phone battery and pay more attention to things around me having the device. It may not be for everyone, but if the Apple Watch is anything like my Moto 360, I'm sure Apple users are pleased with their devices to. I personally don't know why figures aren't released I think with these types of products they probably don't matter much, if someone is waiting for someone else to buy and try first. It probably wasn't for you in the first place. I believe the wearable market has a place. Can't wait to see how they evolve over time.

my wife's garmin step tracker thing does pretty much all the important stuff like...show the time, tell her about messages, tell her about calls...and it cost way less.

The watch will be something when the guts of the phone and watch switch places and the phone will just be an extended display for the watch that you carry on your person and the watch can do the same with a full monitor.

MScrip said:

Thanks for the Motley Fool info!

Slice had a chart that indicated 5,000 per day... so that's where I got that number: http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/559c5143ecad0458251d42ca-1200-667/apple%20watches%20sold%20by%20day.png

The Fool article also raises the question whether or not Slice counts retail sales as opposed to strictly online sales... and also international sales.

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I think fools point that many people will buy in store is probably valid. There are certainly areas that don't have a store near them, but they're in over 40 states, so I might be inclined to get one in the store. If I couldn't get it tax free online, I'd definitely go the store route.

So to date, the only complaints against smartwatches I have seen are from people who have never even used one, and declare that "I can just use my phone for that". Question: Where do you normally keep your phone? I think it's safe to say in your pocket. Thats what the smartwatch eliminates, the need to fish a phone out of your pocket. Some of us sit in cramped office chairs, others work while standing up. Some of us might be driving a car. One way or the other it takes 1-2 seconds or more to get to your phone, and another 1-2 seconds to unlock it. The smartwatch is nothing more than a convenient "at a glance" way to see what your phone is doing. Who wants to go digging for their phone every time it vibrates just to see your girlfriend responded to your last message 20 minutes ago with "k"? What if you like to subscribe to an obnoxious amount of twitter alerts? What if you like to know who's texting you while participating in a meeting or other scenario where holding a full blown phone in your hand would be considered rude?

Saying your phone is just as capable as your watch is like saying a pocket watch is just as capable as a wrist watch. "All I have to do is pull out his here chain and flip open the lid, why would I want it constantly attached to my wrist?!"

Downside of using a watch instead of phone: really really tiny screen.

For that kind of money you can get a decent watch whose looks match it's price. I don't want Playschool toy looks that is just as out of place with a $1,000 suit as it is with jeans and a T-shirt. I prefer to look like a grown up that knows how to dress themselves.

Not to mention that it barely qualifies as a functional watch.

Blown 89 said:

For that kind of money you can get a decent watch whose looks match it's price. I don't want Playschool toy looks that is just as out of place with a $1,000 suit as it is with jeans and a T-shirt. I prefer to look like a grown up that knows how to dress themselves.

Not to mention that it barely qualifies as a functional watch.

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It's a luxury item. All the people I've seen wearing them are famous musicians and well known actors, writers/producers. For them, dropping a grand on a watch with a decent band is peanuts. If they don't like it, they'll give it to someone else (or put it in a drawer).

Honestly, as little as I want this watch, I'd rather have it than a $1000 CPU. Sure you can post your awesome OC, but ultimately, it's not a practical purchase....just like an Apple Watch.

Simple: no one wants to return to the archaic practice and times of having a loose device "permanently" strapped to a limb. I mean, really -- why?

It'd be one thing if it was a big innovative leap forward from cellphones. On the contrary, it's a leap backwards in many ways; namely, screen size.

This was dead in the water from the start. It was Apple feeling the need to pull a Jobs 2.0 out of their hat to stay relevant and innovative in a post-Jobs world.

As much as I disliked Google Glass, it was worlds ahead of this in both plausibility and innovation.

McFry said:

So to date, the only complaints against smartwatches I have seen are from people who have never even used one, and declare that "I can just use my phone for that". Question: Where do you normally keep your phone? I think it's safe to say in your pocket. Thats what the smartwatch eliminates, the need to fish a phone out of your pocket. Some of us sit in cramped office chairs, others work while standing up. Some of us might be driving a car. One way or the other it takes 1-2 seconds or more to get to your phone, and another 1-2 seconds to unlock it. The smartwatch is nothing more than a convenient "at a glance" way to see what your phone is doing. Who wants to go digging for their phone every time it vibrates just to see your girlfriend responded to your last message 20 minutes ago with "k"? What if you like to subscribe to an obnoxious amount of twitter alerts? What if you like to know who's texting you while participating in a meeting or other scenario where holding a full blown phone in your hand would be considered rude?

Saying your phone is just as capable as your watch is like saying a pocket watch is just as capable as a wrist watch. "All I have to do is pull out his here chain and flip open the lid, why would I want it constantly attached to my wrist?!"

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Older people have some really weird mental addictions when it comes to their phone. If it's annoying, rude, or inappropriate to spend a couple seconds going through this apparently terrible trouble of getting out your phone and unlocking it to acknowledge it every single time it vibrates or jingles at you, then maybe you should be taking a long, deep look at yourself as a person and how you allocate priorities to the stuff that's important in your life instead of buying another device to "solve" this grand problem.

You shouldn't be looking at your phone or watch or whatever while you're driving.

You should probably unsubscribe to the bajillion-cakes twitter alerts.

You might wanna just PAY ATTENTION TO THE MEETING instead of finding a sneakier way to distract yourself.

You may need to let your significant other understand that sometimes you're doing stuff and won't be looking at a screen or making instant responses.

You could find a better place to put your phone than in your pocket if you're sitting down somewhere.

You could just DO YOUR JOB if you're standing all day.

Or, even more betterer, stop being tech or communications addicted by taking control of your own mental weaknesses or just getting rid of the phone completely. The vast majority of people who own one of those dumb things have very little actual need for them and that need is pretty rare when it does happen. Plus you can save lots of moolah for more important stuff like your retirement savings account that everyone seems to ignore until they're in their late 40's or 50's when they've already like totally squandered most of their working years and the benefit of compound interest over time to actually afford to live comfortably.

So yeah, keep being that smart watch person who claims to know so much more, but hasn't given life enough thought to like, I dunno, actually find the root cause of all this vibration-as-a-call-to-action anxiety.

CreepyUncleGoogle said:

You might wanna just PAY ATTENTION TO THE MEETING instead of finding a sneakier way to distract yourself.

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I don't know. In most meetings I've been in, everyone checks their email during the meeting, including Sr VPs. That ship has sailed. I'll add that IME, the older people are, the less likely they are to look at their phone. But what do I know, I have a policy of only checking email every few hours (unless there's something important going on that I'm already aware of). When you get 500-1000 emails a day, there's really no point in looking at it....it's mostly noise.

Oh and I often just leave my phone on silent (even at home). It's weird, but now phones are what I use when I'm not home.