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What a load of rubbish. Of course there are plenty of rich folk who can easily afford $10K on a watch, plane tickets, car etc. That doesn't mean they will autom
by kalindamy 12y ago
What a load of rubbish. Of course there are plenty of rich folk who can easily afford $10K on a watch, plane tickets, car etc. That doesn't mean they will automatically shell out for an Apple Watch.
Tech is different from fashion. Apple makes a tech tool, announces that it does x, y, z that everyone needs it because it solves a, b, c and Apple will be quite correct in their advertisements. However Apple can make a fashion item and annouce that it is cool, luxurious, classy, the 'it' watch and so on and be completely wrong in their pronouncements. A product doesn't become a luxury item ipso facto because Apple says so. Apple doesn't have the cultural cachet of Hermes or Patek yet. Right now the Apple Watch looks like a basic ugly item for the novuea riche. There's no guarantee that rich people will buy one instead of another Rolex
- bcRIPster 12y agoApple makes a tech tool? Uh, no. They make fashion tech and have for over a decade now. Yes it's functional for techies but it's fashion plane and simple, and yes people will shell out for it. I know people that were already planning out the buy on the $10K model the day it was introduced before it even had a solid price because the price doesn't matter.