Karissa Bell:
In the back of one of the smaller halls at CES, a Chinese company was showing off fake Apple Watches. So, naturally, I bought one.
The $27 fake Apple Watch at CES
Karissa Bell:
In the back of one of the smaller halls at CES, a Chinese company was showing off fake Apple Watches. So, naturally, I bought one.
I bought a $15 pair of Polaroid bluetooth headphones at Biglots this week. Small light behind the neck design, they had in-ear bud & over the ear styles. Working fine so far. I also bought a $6 hdmi cable 3D Ready ‘high speed with ethernet’. And some $2 gum. That’s what I bought with $23, how about you? Oops $4 to go. Meh, I’ll add $4 to sharebuilder. Spend $27 and blog about it, hurray!
Of course, you haven’t really made it in knockoffs until you’ve set up a folding table on Canal Street.
Factory seconds and overstocks are not the same as knockoffs.
Oh? Why? What do fakes tell us about Apple, the watch, or Consumer Electronics? How is this more than irresistible Apple link-bait? But Gruber & Jim linked to it … What’s a poor obstinate fellow like myself supposed to do? Just click the link without even a humph?
What do overstocks tell us about knockoffs? I can’t see any connection you’re supposedly trying to make.
Nothing. Does $27 tell us anything about Apple’s watch price point? Does the functionality & lack of quality inform us about the utility of the wrist-size form factor? Does the feel of the knockoff on the writer’s wrist tell us anything? Is the existence of knockoffs (or the speed at which knockoffs appear) ‘news’ to this site’s or Gruber’s audience? But $15 bluetooth headphones tell me that the market for personal bluetooth headphones has reached beyond the mainstream down to the broad base that is the discount market. I used a pair of $80 Motorola bluetooth headphones for the last year. These $15 headphones have voice prompts (power on/off, connected, low battery) that my $80 set doesn’t. So maybe marginally available knockoffs tell us something, but widely available discount-market products do too.
You’re over-thinking this.
I think the point of the original CES story is just as an amusing indicator of how desperate somebody is to sell something they assume people are so desperate to obtain that they’ll either be fooled by or settle for a knockoff.
All over a product that isn’t available yet.
New Orleans?
It’s not click bait. The point of the post is to show the AW is already desirable enough as a product that companies are going to major trade shows just to sell imposters. this flies in the face of the cynics who claim its doomed to fail. Gruber exists to show how full of shit the “doomed!” naysayers are.
Manhattan.