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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by influx on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:09PM (#16998369)
The Apple Watch is probably a rounding error when compared to the iPhone, however:

"But the most interesting stuff came when Cook referred to the success of Apple Watch. The Watch sales are part of the wearables business which also includes headphones such as Beats and AirPods.

Last May, he said that business is approaching the size of a Fortune 500 company. More recently, last month, the size had crept up so it would fall in the top 400"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2018/02/15/apple-ce...

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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by StudentStuff on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:56PM (#16998718)
Thing is the Apple Watch is viewed as a status symbol primarily, despite Apple's marketing and messaging stating its a health monitoring/heads up display type device. Many of the people who buy it have no idea that it'll catch some potentially imminently fatal health conditions: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5683089/Apple-Watc...

Its impressive how many people buy the Apple Watch without understanding what it offers.

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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by tsunamifury on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:33PM (#16999782)
I'd hardly call a 200 dollar watch a status symbol by any stretch of the imagination
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by qz3 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:39AM (#17000510)
I think it depends on the income. But, considering many people buy regular watches costing 20 times more, I wouldn't see an Apple watch as a status symbol either.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by ajkjk on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:56AM (#17000712)
It sends a message, which my brain's social apparatus parses as a status-symbol brag (and finds very distasteful).
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by King-Aaron on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:51AM (#17010808)
For a great many people, a $200 watch is a luxury.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by jnaina on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:45AM (#17000528)
Apple Watch Alerts New York Man of Health Crisis, Ends Up Saving His Life

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Smart-Watch-Saves-New-...

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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by perl4ever on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:49PM (#17004895)
It's possible that the watch gave him "permission" to go to the hospital, but it would seem as if gushing blood ought to suffice. I don't know what it means if it doesn't.
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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by distances on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#17000977)
Sounds like he would've gone to the hospital anyway with those symptoms.
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