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At 3500 this will be niche at best. They'll sell half the units of Watch Ultra if they're lucky.
by bunga-bunga 3y ago
At 3500 this will be niche at best. They'll sell half the units of Watch Ultra if they're lucky.
- turnsout 3y agoYeah… It's like sure, this replaces a TV for ONE person. If I want to watch a movie with my wife and daughter, I'm out $10,500
- Dudester230602 3y agoKeep in mind the battery is not enough for a movie. So the entire family will also be plugged into a wall wart. Mind the wire for any bathroom breaks!
- thrill 3y agoIt's a 2 hour battery with a dedicated cable and looks easily swappable in seconds.
- Dudester230602 3y agoYes, even for that family of rich Apple executives, it will get tired by the third time.
- ladyanita22 3y agoFor a 3500$ device? Fantastic!
- paul_f 3y agoThe running time of the CD-ROM was designed to play Beethoven's 9th symphony in its entirety. You would have thought Apple would plan the battery life to allow you to watch all of Avengers: Endgame, or maybe Oppenheimer, without pausing to swap the battery.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoiPhone rollout not only first model
- nicoburns 3y agoTrue, but the price will come down. The early MacBook Air's were also super-expensive, rich-early-adopter-only pricing, and now they're the mainstream product.
- kgwgk 3y ago$1800 was expensive but there were a number of competitors in that price range.
- alwillis 3y ago> At 3500 this will be niche at best. The original 128k Macintosh was $2,495 in 1984--that's $6,244.14 in todays (2023) dollars, just to put things in perspective. Obviously there will be less expensive models to come; this is just the start. This will be mostly for early adopters and developers.
- Kareem71 3y agoPeople are poorer today on an inflation adjusted basis
- selectodude 3y agoNo, they really aren’t. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
- Xeoncross 3y agoI know the FED says we're not poorer, but their adjustment for inflation is just a marketing stunt. If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of housing you'll see we're making less compared to the cost of things every year. Pull up a chart of "FRED:ASPUS/FRED:MEHOINUSA646N" on https://www.tradingview.com https://www.tradingview.com edit: took a screenshot to save the trouble https://imgur.com/a/U5ml4Iq https://imgur.com/a/U5ml4Iq
- selectodude 3y agoIf you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of computers we're literally orders of magnitude wealthier. You can't just pick one data point and blast off.
- JoeJonathan 3y agoI mean, it’s not entirely implausible that housing is a better index of cost of living than computers.
- newaccount74 3y agoI don't think the biggest obstacle is the price. I'm assuming the price goes down eventually. I just don't see the must-have reason why everyone would have to buy one.