“If you ordered early and fast, chances are you finally got that little Apple wonder for your wrist. But if you didn’t order right away on April 10, you’re going to be cooling your jets… because you’re not getting it anytime soon,” Neil Cavuto writes for FOXBusiness. “And that supremely bugs me on the customer service front. Because I think Apple is handling this whole watch rollout badly … very badly.”
“And getting the watch late isn’t what bugs me. All these stars — like Pharrell and Drake and Beyonce and Anna Wintour — getting them early, and likely for free … that really bugs me,” Cavuto writes. “Apple’s practically shouting, ‘They’re cool, and the rest of you, particularly you, Neil, are not. You chill. Because you’re a chump.’”
MacDailyNews Take: Now, to be fair, Neil, this is only because you are a chump. A really, supremely bugged chump. Who needs to chill.
(Our Apple Watches are awesome, by the way!)
“Good luck nabbing one of these things quickly, or easily. You can’t just walk into an Apple store and get one,” Cavuto writes. “You have to set up an appointment, and order online again, to have them send it to your home. Let’s just say it’s confusing.”
MacDailyNews Take: Ordeing something online and having it shipped to your doorstep. Sooo confusing!
“And the more I see these Hollywood and music-mogul types donning these damn things on their wrists, the more I want to get my hands wrapped around their throats,” Cavuto writes. “It’s like their shoving their preferred status in our faces. And I’m not even talking Drake … I’m talking those dregs at Apple.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on March 12th:
All of these articles about how poor you are for being incensed over Apple Watch Edition’s price or how big of a douchebag you have to be to buy one are doing Apple Watch’s marketing, product positioning, and market segmentation for Apple gratis.As we explained last month: The $17,000 Apple Watch Edition vastly separates Apple Watch from the stupidwatches. Editions are mobile billboards and perpetual interest-generators for Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport that also elevate the perception of quality for both of those models.
Apple is brilliant. These gorgeous 18-karat gold Apple Watch Editions will begin showing up on the wrists of celebrities, famous athletes, and captains of industry very soon. And they will influence the rest of the world to lust after Apple Watch, too. And, here’s more Apple brilliance, unlike a $51,500 Piaget watch, your average Joe and Jane… will actually be able to partake in the same exact user experience with the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport. — SteveJack, MacDailyNews, March 9, 2015
“Ordeing something online and having it shipped to your doorstep. Sooo confusing!”
It is for asswipes like Cavuto.
That should be, ‘ordering’.
I’m so disappointed. My wife and I both preordered at 12:05 and 12:06. (3 am my time) We were only this late because of an error with ApplePay and now we still don’t even have a shipping confirmation?? The only communication was an email saying the same exact thing they told me 30 seconds after preordering?
We are an all Apple family with 2 macs, 2 iPhones, 3 iPads, 3 AppleTVs and an even a new Airport Extreme so please don’t think I’m not loyal. It’s just hard to remember being this excited about a product launch and still not knowing when I’ll receive it considering I preordered 5 & 6 minutes after it was available.
Apple fan here. But seriously…how much sale$ were not recognized today at Apple Stores? The new retail chief can say all she wants that this is a ‘new category’ but iPod, iPhone, AppleTV…and list goes on with all successful products/new categories that Apple launched with inventory in stores after online pre-sales and introductions. Seriously don’t claim it’s some grandiose marketing ploy or planned outcome. If you do, then let’s go back to 1996 when there was over $1m of the Apple PowerBook orders that were unfulfilled for months. Pure genius move?
Ge’ez. Who cares about No recognized sales at a Apple Store. Every Apple Watch made is SOLD, whether from physical store or a internet store. Thanks for playing, you can leave now.
Hey 2014-2016, is Cavouto that stupid or is he being sarcastic?
I’m sorry about your feelings of inferiority Neil. Now get a grip on reality, stop slagging off on Apple and PAY ATTENTION to what’s actually going on with the Watch shortage. And deal with the fact that Apple is never perfect. They’re just better than all the alternatives.
Steve Jobs would NEVER have settled for “just better than all the alternatives”.
Worst Apple product launch EVER!
I don’t know about ‘EVER!’ But obviously it was no where near an optimum launch. With time, we’re going to get a good idea about what actually happened to bottleneck the release of watches, as opposed to the usual useless rumor mongering. Meanwhile, I still point to the fact that this is an entirely new market for Apple, plus the fact that the previously released stupid and smart watches offered ZERO guidance to Apple regarding what to expect regarding demand. THANKFULLY demand is enormous!!! An real horror would have been if the demand had been awful and Apple got stuck with stock no one wanted, à la the 1996 $1 Billion in unwanted Apple Mac Performas. THERE was a catastrophe. This Watch problem is, as many have pointed out, a most desirous problem, the envy of every other stupid and smart watch maker!!! Apple can’t make enough of them!
With time and experience, Apple will be able to better predict demand in this market and straighten out this, to be honest, bleeding edge problem.
Ah, fuck him. I’m just a nobody, and I’m wearing a 42mm Space Grey Sport (w/black sport band) right now as we speak. I’m no celebrity; I’m just a nerd who stayed up ’til midnight and ordered one right away.
BTW, this thing is even better than I expected! Love it!!
Yeah, it wasn’t just despicable celebrities that got their goodies, it was regular joes like you, just not everybody. Anyone ragging on you for having one when they didn’t get theirs? Didn’t think so. People just like to rag on celebrities.
Corporations can seem so damn insensitive, pissing off their customers with stupid marketing decisions, like they don’t understand how to do business correctly. However, Apple continues to rake in the bucks, or yen or whatever, in spite of their socalled bungling. So maybe they know what they are doing after all, and it is the likes of us who don’t get it. We used to feel more special. But Apple sells to the world now