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A $20k (or even $5k) gold Apple watch will be a litmus test for me - anyone I encounter will automatically be someone I wouldn't do business with. The idea of
by radley 12y ago
A $20k (or even $5k) gold Apple watch will be a litmus test for me - anyone I encounter will automatically be someone I wouldn't do business with. The idea of a gold Apple watch is akin to gold-plated cars / guns for drug dealers. The only value it adds it to show you have money.
The fact that Apple would even consider it only demonstrate the corrosion of values and vision to me.
- solutionyogi 12y agoAre you suggesting that you never do business with people who wear Rolex? I don't know how that makes sense. I would never pay 5k for a watch but I do wear shoes which costs 1300$. That doesn't make me a bad person, just that I like to spend money on shoes. I can completely understand that someone may want to spend 5k on Apple Watch.
- radley 12y agoWould you pay $5k-20k for a gold-plated version of those shoes? Regarding Rolex (which I also feel are also overpriced antiques) they at least have a lasting value. They're often heirlooms passed down to children, partners, etc. A 100 year old watch is awesome. A 200 year old Rolex will be amazing, but possible. But I just can't imagine Apple supporting a first-gen iWatch 50-200 years after release.
- MrPepperman 12y agoJust a small correction: It will be solid gold, not plated. Your point still remains in tact.
- radley 12y agoHeh - I was assuming it would be hard to walk in solid gold shoes ;-)
- bornabox 12y agoThe whole heirloom argument doesn't ring right. I mean, sure, this happens and is part of the market. But I'd wager it's a small part. There are many watch-guys and rich people who buy 20, 30K watches because they can and like them. Not because they might give them to their kids in 30 years.
- solutionyogi 12y agoWell, for you, a 100 year old watch is awesome. For someone else, a gold plated watch designed by Apple is awesome. Everyone has their own taste.
- eof 12y agobasically everything in traditional business atire is just demonstration of wealth if you really dig into it. what about the other ten thousand solid/plated gold watches? rolex watches containing gold are probably all over wrists of people you would be happy to do business with. don't get me wrong.. 5k for an iwatch is ridiculous
- radley 12y agoI have no problem with expensive goods, even gold watches. It's the part of "slap some gold on my Apple device" that is counter-intuitive. There's no way Steve Jobs thought "what we're really missing is a gold version". It's not zen. It's gaudy. The few extremely-successful people I've met that have impressed me have been very low key. Can you imagine PG wearing a gold iWatch???
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- terrywilcox 12y agoThere's a word for judging people by what they wear or how they look...
- radley 12y agohttps://newbeautifulera.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-nature-says-do-not-touch-a-classic-far-side-comic/ https://newbeautifulera.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-nature-...
- puranjay 12y agoThe $20k you pay for a Rolex is not for the watch. It's for the craftsmanship and the value of "legacy". A Rolex watch stays in the family. It gets passed around from generation to generation. My grandad had one. He gave it to my dad, who will give it to my brother, and so on. Not really the same thing at all. Different value notions completely.
- runamok 12y agoA decent amount of people wear rolexes which are > $5000. You probably just don't notice them because they are fairly understated. I'd also imagine guns for drug dealers have a more practical use case than conspicuous consumption.