“If you are absolutely sure you are never going to buy an Apple Watch — and certainly not version 1.0 — you can stop reading right now,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“But if you’re an early adopter like me — or a reseller working the global arbitrage — and you can’t decide without physically weighing the 38 combinations of size, material and band, you’re out of luck,” P.E.D. reports. “That’s because pre-orders start at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, and there’s a very good chance that by the time doors open at your nearest Apple Store, all the models you had in mind will have already sold out.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What to do, what to do…
We know: We’ll trust Apple on this one and preorder. Bigger models for male wrists, smaller models for female wrists. Sport models for fitness buffs. We already know what aluminum, stainless steel, and gold are like and we can guess with close enough proximity on the bands and materials.
Get the right watch size and casing and you can always change the band later, but if you can’t find an Apple Watch to put it on, the right band isn’t going to be of much use. Knowing Apple, the initial supply will be severely constrained and supply and demand won’t come into balance for months.
Good luck, everybody!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]