I wear a watch now. Nice begging the question continuation of the rest of question 1, Up Yours. You assume the premise of your argument in your question. I won't give you that leeway.
The watch I wear costs three times the Apple Watch I am waiting delivery on. My Stürhling Edition Turbillon Mechanical Meteorite Dial in rose gold retails for $3400. . . and is a quite elegant man's watch. It was a gift from my girlfriend. I just gave her another expensive ring yesterday.
2. If you don't have a phone but want the watch, why would you want to buy both a watch AND phone just to tell time,
First of all, the Apple Watch does far more than "just to tell the time, what your pulse is, and who's calling you on the DICK TRACY line". Again, you set up a begging the question or petittio principii structure to your question. . . all of which is only partially true. This is an argument and debate fallacy. . . and you use it frequently. I made a list the other day of many reasons to have an Apple Watch. I won't repeat it here. You say it.
3. Do you like being chained to yet another useless accessory with the same functionality as what you already have on your phone?
More circular argument. . . assuming the conclusion you want. Your assumptions are that because it has SOME of the functions that are present on your iPhone, they are just as convenient as they would be in another form. Why does one need a cell phone? Don't you have one with the same ability to make a call at home? Same argument. . . different time. Convenience. . . but add that the two devices are NOT the same and one adds additional functions and features the other lacks. Your argument fails on that point alone. You phone does not have all of the same functions as the Apple Watch, and vice verse.
4. What's with the supposed "panache" of this watch that would make you believe you look handsome in its gender-neutral Tim Cook-style excuse for jewelry?
Have you looked at the watches being sold on the Shopping networks? The women's watches are almost indistinguishable from the mens' watches. No, they ARE indistinguishable from mens' watches except in size. The Apple Watch has a small size and a large size. Where the watches do differ on both the shopping channels and in the Apple Watches for gender it is in the watch bands in color and appearance. Some of the bands being offered by Apple are distinctly masculine in appearance, and some are distinctly feminine. Some are unisex.
5. Why would you buy this knowing Apple could axe it any time based on lack of profitability, an obvious admission by Apple itself? After all they failed to provide sufficient flagship supply, and expect overall portfolio sales projections to be low compared to their one-trick product, the iPhone. All accessories revolve around this single device anyway.
You are claiming facts not in evidence and some are pure fantasy land. Any product could be "axed" at any time, but Apple does not have a track record of doing any such thing. Apple has NOT made any "obvious admission by Apple itself" about any lack of profitability. . . with the only thing Apple admitting is overwhelming demand for the Apple Watch causing the initial stock to be sold out in under ten minutes WORLD WIDE. . . which you translate as a low provision for "flagship supply" when the estimates are initial sales were well in excess of 2.3 MILLION in ten minutes, three times the total sales of all smartwatches sold by all makers in all of 2014, which by anyone else's metric is phenomenal.
What an impressive heaping pile of LEADING FUD LOADED questions you've constructed, Up Yours Marxist. Simply hilarious.
I want to thank you for actually responding to the questions, after 205 replies of piecemeal arrogance.
A few observations...
I don’t believe you will give up a $1500 watch over a $500 pile of trash. Nobody will take you seriously. In aviation, a Sturhling or Breitling commands more respect and dignity. I believe you’re lying.
You don’t say what the Apple watch will do for you other than the standard “Dick Tracy” or biometrics features. Another lie because you don’t know what else it will do and it won’t enhance your life anyway. The “Apple Store” is bereft of promises on an accessory which isn’t being delivered on time anyway (ask me how I know).
Next, it’s YOUR job to tell us here on this fine site what the watch will do other than telling time, annoying the hell out of users with notices the phone already does, dying after 10 hours, and any biometrics it does without going under water and frying like a pancake.
Finally, ask 20 of your friends which watch they would wear. A stupid square piece of trendy crap, or a classy, timeless $700-$17000 timepiece. Something like “Would you pick a ROLEX, or an ‘Apple Watch’”. Or in your case, would you pick a Sturhling over an Apple watch?
You’re on slippery slope of lies here.