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Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Order Lottery To Developers

Posted by samzenpus on from the your-number's-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple is sending out invites to random registered developers, giving them the chance to buy an Apple Watch with guaranteed delivery by the end of the month. "Special Opportunity for an Expedited Apple Watch Order," the invite email states. "We want to help give Apple developers the opportunity to test their WatchKit apps on Apple Watch as soon as it is available. You have the chance to purchase one (1) Apple Watch Sport with 42mm Silver Aluminum Case and Blue Sport Band that's guaranteed to ship by April 28, 2015."

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  1. If you like that, I've got a fence to paint... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hmm, seems like Tim Cook (or his PR folks) have been reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
    If you ask reaaaaal nicely, they'll let you buy their product.

    And yet the sheep keep baaaaarging in...

  2. Re:A very good idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I did.

    I found it fucking hilarious. These people are so high on their horses they'll need a parachute if they ever want to get off.

  3. In what way gambling? by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't buying the watch gambling enough?

    How is this gambling?

    Apple is going to support the watch for a long time to come, as you can tell they are very attached to these things. It's gotten way more of a full media push than the AppleTV ever did, for example - and they still sell AppleTV's many years after launch.

    Lots of people are buying the watch, and shipping times are quite far out now - so if you get one and find you do not like it, you can resell it pretty easily (not to mention you can just return it for a week or two after you have it if you do not like it).

    Application developers have already done a ton of updates that support the watch, so it's not like there will not be massive developer effort behind getting applications to work as well with the watch as they possibly can.

    If you have any interest in a smart watch at all, buying an Apple Watch seems much less a gamble than other watches. I bought a Pebble Time also; to me that seems more of a gamble but I want to support alternatives in the market and to me that's the most distinct in term of ideology around how a smart watch should work.

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