Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Order Lottery To Developers

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."

Comments

What the hell

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought this thing, which brings absolutely nothing new to the already lame smartwatch scene except a larget pricetag... would absolutely flop.

But no, I seem to have misjudged again the capacity of apple fans to be braindead.

I always do. I'm always surprised by the exact same thing too.

Its like this people are refugees from the fucking twilight zone or something. Also, how do you make money to afford this garbage being this stupid?

Re:No wifi, less space than a Nomad, lame?

[Chas]

Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.

So, they bring MMO-style gambling to the purchase of a watch?

REVOLUTIONARY!

Hundreds of years of watchmaking, and we've been waiting for THIS! ... ... ...

Oh PLEASE!

Turning insufficient supply of a crappy product into gambling opportunity for all of the sheeple.

What next? The Apple Pen? The Apple Shoe? The Apple Belt?

Oh! I know! The Apple WALL SOCKET!

Like a regular wall socket, but white, with an embossed, glow in the dark Apple logo!

Seriously, Apple could package fresh feces, say it came from Steve Jobs, and millions of fanboys would real-life deathmatch for the opportunity to buy it.

What do you call?

[hughbar]

Someone who has an iPhone, iPad, iPod? An iDiot. Unhappily Apple Watch doesn't fit into this rather feeble joke, but these are consumer fetish items.

It's working though, a charity that I volunteer for bought a load of iPads for an older-person project, display keypads are a lot harder to use than clunky mechanical ones for old fingers and they're really expensive. So, if any of the people in the trial wanted to 'progress' they'd have to lay out £500 pounds. I'm not a huge fan of Android either, but, at least the follow-up would have been more affordable and a little more open.