If you’ve ever adopted any of Apple’s early technologies, then you know the story: You pay a premium to be the first. Then after six months or a year, you discover that you’ve been a fool. I’ve been there.
I wasn’t first in line, but I did buy an original iPhone. Paid $600 for it. Then five months later, they introduced a newer, better, cheaper iPhone. I felt like a schmuck.
Others have had the same issue: You buy the first iPod, iPad, iMac, whatever. Then, a few months or a year later, you discover that the newer, better, cheaper, faster i-Whatever was in the works all along.
Apple fanbots don’t mind. They buy the new whatever no matter what. But with the Apple Watch, a new consumer is being catered to: The one percenters.
What do you think will happen when some yacht owner forks over $10,000 — or more — for the Apple Watch Edition only to find out they’ve been duped, and a newer, better watch is suddenly on the market?
