Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch retweeted a couple interesting tweets about the Apple Watch last night:
For fun, I took my Apple Watch models and used SW and some basic assumptions to
figure the gold content. 29.16g:
pic.twitter.com/WGEnjtj1Yh
— Greg Koenig (@gak_pdx)
February 19, 2015
If anyone thinks Apple is charging less than $5k for the Edition, they are
smoking crack. Based on the gold content alone, $5k easy
— Greg Koenig (@gak_pdx)
February 19, 2015
This corroborates the rumblings I’ve heard about cost.
Not long ago, I remember just having an iPhone could be construed as a status symbol. The Apple Watch will be taking it to a whole new level.