Ok now this ins’t the 1st time Apple talked about their 1st product into the world of wearables. But they did leave out a lot of unanswered questions. During today’s event, they answered many of them. Like for starters, you can completely customize the watchface so you don’t have to completely rely on what’s only in the App Store. As well as it having an 18-hour battery life.
The developers is gonna be the reason this stands out in the smartwatch crowd.
You have tons of things you can do w/ the Apple Watch- both natively and due to 3rd-party developers.
- You can read full emails
- Take/receive call on your watch (Dick Tracy-style)
- Pull info via PassBook like flight check-in info + QR barcode to scan your watch as a boarding pass
- Make purchases using Apple Pay from your watch
- Say ‘Hey Siri’ anywhere to activate the virtual assistant
- Connect one Apple Watch to another via Digital Connect. Allowing you to send sketches, taps, and each others heartbeats along w/ just messages + emails.
- Look up songs via Shazam
- Request an Uber driver
- Like browse photos on Instagram
- Use your watch as a SPG hotel roomkey just to name a few things
The low-end Apple Watch Sport will start at $349 for the 38mm model and $399 for the 42mm model. The stainless steel Apple Watch will start at $549 for the 38mm and $599 for the 42mm model Depending on choice of bands, it can go up to $1,099. And the 18-karat Gold Apple Watch edition will start at $10,000 (yes, 10 stacks). It is definitely going to be for those who can afford it, not the everyday crowd.
So you think of it as the Sport is Old Navy, the Apple Watch is the Gap, and the Watch Edition is Banana Republic. Pre-orders start on April 10th and will be in stores on the 24th. The Apple Watches will kick off sales in the US, UK, China, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Hong Kong. So now that you have all of the info, are you buying one?
