Thread: Apple Watch
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Robo
Formerly Roboman, still
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2014-09-09, 17:50

I think it's absolutely beautiful. It doesn't feel like they just took their iPhone design language — chamfered edges, Helvetica and whitespace, &c. — and just shoved it on a watch. It looks like something really and truly new from Apple, and it just blows every other "smartwatch" out of the water.

To make a good smartwatch you have to make a good watch first, and that means you have to make something desirable even if people didn't know about the smart features. And I think Apple succeeded.

My guess on pricing:

$349 38mm Apple Watch Sport
$399 42mm Apple Watch Sport
$449+ 38mm Apple Watch (depending on band, this price = sport band)
$499+ 42mm Apple Watch (depending on band, this price = sport band)
Who knows— Apple Watch Edition

I'm glad it's early 2015…gives me time to save $499 or so. My first glimpse was of the steel/sapphire model with the white band and just fell in love with it (even before I knew what it did!).

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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