- Location
- Milwaukee, WI USA
- Name
- Luke
Maybe Apple is just trying to keep Hasselblad from rebranding an Apple watch and adding a zero to the price by doing it themselves.
Ah well, nothing new here. Apple's products have often managed to evoke an irrational emotional response. Hence the whole "religion" meme. But I have yet to see anyone posting messages in photography forums about how offended they are re: the cost of Burberry raincoats, or Louis Vuitton handbags, or, yes, Rolex watches.
I have little interest in buying the Apple Watch right now because its cost is higher than its utility (for me), no different than a Mercedes Benz automobile. But I take no offense in their pricing structure. Clearly, when the entire initial production run of more than a million Apple Watches sells out within minutes of its release, the pricing structure is well within customer expectations. Had they been able to produce ten million, it's a good bet that the watch would still be on backorder today. Charging what the market will bear is the basis for a stable economy going back a long, long time.
Maybe Apple is just trying to keep Hasselblad from rebranding an Apple watch and adding a zero to the price by doing it themselves.
Sorry Dale, that's just not true. But don't take my word for it. Here's a link to the Apple Store web site, where you will be able to compare the prices, and see that the stainless Apple Watch with the sports band is exactly $200 more than the same size aluminum Apple Watch.
Here's the question that I asked on Reddit: In 2001, the iPod changed the way we listen to music. In 2007, the iPhone changed the way we access the Internet. In 2015, the Watch changed _______? Right now, the only answer is "how often we take our phones out of our pocket." That, frankly, is not enough.
Well, pissing contest is exactly what you are trying to create by not reading my obvious intent, and nitpicking instead. Now that's known in courts as the Reasonable Man argument.I don't want to get into any sort of pissing contest with you here, Dale. But I most certainly did not ignore what you said. I was responding to your exact words. Here's a direct quote from your post above:
"I was offended by the notion of paying $700 extra just to get a stainless steel case."
The only way to arrive at that $700 number is if you compare the least expensive aluminum watch against the most expensive stainless watch of the same size. So you're obviously not talking about "just a stainless steel case."
So ... You've got the watch with a shutter button on it. ... And the phone in the other hand ... How do you hit the shutter button?
Nose?
Tongue ?
Um ... Something else?