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Apple Watch Hermés bands made in France
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Biometric sensors that alert your family, emergency services, alert people around what is happening all from a watch? Thats some sci-fi thinking bruh. I knew a guy at work that was in hospital, and every time he ummm... pleasured himself it would set off the alarm on the machine that was monitoring his heart. lol.
Contextual home screen, take a look at your desk right now, it's probably a mess but I bet you know exactly where everything is.
Health/Fitness - Many complaints around the accuracy but for me, you want a nice body then you need to focus 90% on diet and 10% exercise, but I can see the apple watch usefulness from setting personal bests, for me the timing features are brilliant, e.g., setup a 15 min outside run.
Success - What's your definition of success? Everyone wearing an apple watch? Selling 1 million units in China? Making 1 billion dollars? I'm sure your definition and apples is greatly different. How can a company increase growth? They can enhance existing products to a certain point or they create new product lines.
Who said about a million? Do you have even a shred of understanding of how luxury business work?
Well for one, I was clearly joking. And second, yes, I most definitely do, but I'm in the mood for a laugh, so go on...
Firstly, it's Hermès.
Secondly, if I were in the typical target market where I'd usually buy Hermès or similar fashion accessories, and I wanted an Apple Watch, why wouldn't I want this?
And thirdly, why would I care if one brand "cheapens" the other? Exactly how? Watch face aside, the leather strap is better than anything you'd buy with Apple "branding", and the Apple Watch is better than any smartwatch from the "Watch" manufacturers. Both brands can stand on their own merit - it's not like you're contemplating an Apple silk scarf or a Hermès smartphone...
Lastly, only thing that sucks is you can't upgrade an existing Apple Watch to one of these.
Secondly, if I were in the typical target market where I'd usually buy Hermès or similar fashion accessories, and I wanted an Apple Watch, why wouldn't I want this?
And thirdly, why would I care if one brand "cheapens" the other? Exactly how? Watch face aside, the leather strap is better than anything you'd buy with Apple "branding", and the Apple Watch is better than any smartwatch from the "Watch" manufacturers. Both brands can stand on their own merit - it's not like you're contemplating an Apple silk scarf or a Hermès smartphone...
Lastly, only thing that sucks is you can't upgrade an existing Apple Watch to one of these.
And therein lies the rub ... the people with the most money to spend, have to settle for cheap Apple brand leather and rubber bands -- there's not even a solid gold link bracelet option available. Even if they bought the Hermes watch for the bands, the stainless lugs wouldn't match the 18Kt gold case. While they could purchase a third party band kit with the screws to replace the band on their Edition lugs with the Hermes bands, they still won't get the Hermes watch face, nor for that matter can they get any other watch face than the standard offerings, aside from a custom color.
Can Edition owners even buy additional bands? Is there some private website they are given access to in order to buy additional bands, or are they screwed with the rest of the non-stainless watch owners?
The situation is sort of ridiculous.
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The entire Edition situation makes very little sense.
Granted, I'm not the target customer so maybe it makes perfect sense to the customer segment, but still things like Hermes watch face just ****ing befuddles me.
What genius came up with these ideas?
Hermes watches aren't heirlooms. Unlike Omega, Cartier or Rolex the company isn't respected for its watch movements - the watch is secondary to the leather. Rather than a timepiece company, Hermes is known for luxury leather goods from equestrian to handbags? My mum loves handbags and horses so by association also Hermes. She had no interest in the AW until I showed her the Hermes......
