Apple Watch and Early Adoption
I also love it because being an early adopter is fun. Another friend of mine with an Apple Watch—one of the few fashion people I know to have actually bought one instead of borrowing it from the company—said his choice to make the purchase was easy. The Apple Watch represents the future, so why not start enjoying the future now?
The last sentence hits on something I didn’t honestly think about but totally agree with. If (a big if) you have the disposable income, and you’re willing to experience the future, why not experience it now instead of later? Sure, it’s not fully matured yet, but neither was the iPhone when it first came out and boy was it fun owning one despite it being somewhat slow, not having 3G, not having copy and paste, and of course having pretty bad battery life. It didn’t matter though because it was just fun to own.
Which gets me to another point: We buy so many things that we don’t need everyday. Many of us spend $3 bucks on a cup of coffee when we can make our own for less than 50 cents. We do the same with going out to lunch and dinner or even going to see a movie or a game. None of these things are needed, but we do them because they make us happy. Why is it that people feel the need to look at the Apple Watch differently? Of course you don’t need it. It’s a watch. Most people don’t need watches today anyways. What Apple is doing, however, is taking something that was normally just a braclet tells time and bringing some function to it.
That, to me, is part of the future.