[Enlightened1]

[Mr. K]

well duh... how many people do they expect to buy them- a million every day?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

There are plenty of other smartwatches on the market for far less money. A couple of my students, professors of electronic engineering, wear, I believe, Samsung smartwatches, and they love ‘em.

[Obadiah]

Apple also unveiled a gold “Edition” model priced at $10,000 or more. So far fewer than 2,000 of them have sold in the U.S., Slice contends.

Two thousand people bought a gold toy? Wow.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

A $10,000 iWatch will be just as obsolete in 3-4 years as a $300 model.

Whereas a three year old Rolex or a Breitling will be every bit as functional as a new one, and hold a high percentage of its value.

Yes, there are some stupid rich people, but not that many.

[4rcane]

I believe Apple was committing fraud by selling their $10k gold watches as 22 carat. Its not 22 carat in the traditional sense but Apple’s own 22 carat alloy, which could mean that there’s not much gold in it at all

[The_Reader_David]

Why Apple thought a wrist-borne I/O device for an iPhone would be a big seller is beyond me. A wrist-borne stand-along computer with a touch-screen interface might be a fun product that lots of technophiles would have wanted and could have generated significant sales, but the iWatch isn’t it.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Instead of being useful to the buyers they are finding it only useful to Apple.

[NohSpinZone]

Does not surprise me. I recently talked with an Apple employee (a former intern of mine) who is quite tech savvy as many of her generation are. She has one but has no real clue what to do with it. To her it’s an accessory and a really expensive calendaring system that beeps at her when a meeting is coming up.

[Paladin2]

I got rid of my watch a couple of decades ago. I use my hand-me down smart phones for internet radio and very occasional surfing. A tablet screen is the minimum useful size for me. In 1992 I had a 1024x768 24 bit color 15" monitor and now use a 1920x1080 ~25" on the desktop.

There's no way I'd get a computer wrist watch. Useless.

[norwaypinesavage]

At this rate, they’ll hit zero in August. That’s about the value of the company without Steve Jobs.

[RayChuang88]

Well, Apple has never said the Apple Watch would be a big moneymaker. Apple’s truly big moneymaker is the iPhone—and iPhone sales continue to be strong.

[TomGuy]

From watching the commercials, it seems the watch is more of an annoyance than convenience.

[ctdonath2]

The pent-up demand was satisfied the first week or so, with customers placing all their orders within the first hours/days/weeks. Once everyone who wanted one ordered one, few are left to place orders. There’s a limited market (by definition, starting with the world population being ~7B) for a single product (2 sizes + a few minor albeit pricy differences in construction). Interesting that a market in the millions can choose to order and satisfy their demand practically overnight.

[Jeff Chandler]

Perhaps the economy is soft.

[Swordmaker]

An organization that makes guesses at sales based on emailed receipts, but cannot have had anything to do with receipts from Apple which was the sole source of the Apple Watch during the initial sales period, is claiming that ten days after Apple finally starts Apple Watch sales in the retail stores, sales are slowing down. . . and that sales are down from 200,000 a day. . . but based on WHAT? Their guesses? The chart they provided is bogus on its face, because no Apple Watch receipts could have been sent in early April because no Apple Watches were available for shipping until May! That was the pre-order period, and Apple only sent acknowledgments of customer pre-orders, not purchase receipts until the units shipped. — PING!

Apple Watch Sales slowing by 90% or FUD? Ping!

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[dennisw]

http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sss?sort=rel&query=apple%20watch

311 being dumped on Craigs list for San Fran Sicko...and cheaper prices than NYC

300+ Apple watches being dumped on CraigsList NY City. What a debacle! Fire Kook Tim Kook!

[N. Theknow]

So, the hype turned out to be...iPerbole?

[TexasFreeper2009]

weird that no one wants to wear an overpriced, crappy looking, bracelet that screams “i’m a sodomite!”

lol

[Swordmaker]

A new thread on this topic has been started over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3308873/posts

[dennisw]

Gadget crazed Asians were always the biggest buyers (suckers) for these Apple watches. With the Chinese stock market collapsing this buying will be cut way back. Those $10,000 gold Apple watches will be stashed away somewhere in Cupertino and given away to winners of the gay wet T-shirt night contests