“On Apple’s big day, you can get a Moto 360 for $179 — in case you’re into that sort of thing,” Harrison Weber reports for VentureBeat.
MacDailyNews Take: So, who’s into failures by no-name “designers” that are the exactly the wrong shape and offer no ecosystem of which to speak?
“Motorola’s flagship smartwatch, the Moto 360, received a significant price cut today on Amazon and Best Buy — the same day hordes of Apple fans rushed to preorder the coveted Apple Watch,” Weber reports. “The higher-end Moto 360 got a comparable price cut, too. The all-metal version now costs between $220 and $229 (depending on where you buy), down 23 to 26 percent from the $299 launch price.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Flop.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
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