Why are you presuming the iWatch would not come with fitness features? I would think that would be one of it's primary functions... It's not just a watch. People need to stop being so narrow-minded about this product.
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Why are you presuming the iWatch would not come with fitness features? I would think that would be one of it's primary functions... It's not just a watch. People need to stop being so narrow-minded about this product.
It may be convenient to call Apple's forthcoming wearable tech the iWatch, even though it's almost certainly going to be called something else, and also to call it a watch, even though it's almost certainly going to be far more than that. Convenient, but quite misleading, and probably dead wrong. Reminds me of the prerelease rumors about the iPad when nearly everyone was sure it was going to be called the iSlate, run OSX, and cost at least $1,000.
all of you guys need to calm down just a tad and stop bickering if you need it don't need it. This quote in one of the d interviews with steve jobs and walt mossberg always stood out to me. Walt (just before the ipad was to be launched) was asked some people think that the ipad is useless and is just an oversized ipod touch. What do you think of these criticism? To which jobs replied, "if they buy it they buy it, if they don't, then they won't!"
seriously, i don't think apple cares what we think about their creative endeavors. They put things on the market and it's the consumers choice to buy their product or not. Calm down guys.
seriously, i don't think apple cares what we think about their creative endeavors. They put things on the market and it's the consumers choice to buy their product or not. Calm down guys.
Unlikely. It takes a lot of collection surface area to amount to any usable trickle energy.
Yep.
Most and foremost they will not make it a geek thing, hence Apple hiring all these YSL/Burberry/Nike people. It will be like jewelry with a pretty digital watch face and some extras. That'll be their starting point. People will say it's useless and too expensive, but it'll become a hit. Then they'll gradually add more features, whilst everyone will be saying that Galaxy Gear is much cheaper and has had those features for years. Nevertheless, celebrities will wear the iWatch in public thus reinforcing the idea to the haters that Apple is just for 'brainless Apple followers'. As the quarters pass on, Apple will sell more and more.
That's how it's going to be.
So then, your thought process is just as riged as mine if you cannot accept that others don't find a use for the current incarnation of smart watches.
In the next few weeks or so "Hearing aids for iPhone" will be released by I think three major hearing aid companies. These will of course help with hearing loss, but will also stream in music and phone calls without wires as well as having ways to control the devices in different environments, etc.
A watch could have controls to operate a phone that is in your pocket, and it could set the parameters of your hearing aids, devices that could then be popular with people that can hear just fine.
A watch could have controls to operate a phone that is in your pocket, and it could set the parameters of your hearing aids, devices that could then be popular with people that can hear just fine.
So then, your thought process is just as riged as mine if you cannot accept that others don't find a use for the current incarnation of smart watches.
Here's the cool part: Apple's watch isn't going to be like the current smart watches. I mean seriously how many times can you people read bio sensors in every Macrumors update on the iWatch, and think it will be just another garbage smart watch?
If I were going to design a watch it would have an eink display. If you can't easily read it in bright daylight, or you can't get battery life up to a couple weeks, preferably a couple months, it's dead on arrival. It would have a bluetooth api that anybody can use and write an app for (iOS or Android), but would be able to operate independently (I don't think that part is really possible at this point). It would be as slim as most watches. It would only display a couple things, and you would cycle through the various things it is currently displaying by tapping the screen. No selecting tiny little things, just tap it to cycle through whatever is currently active. For example, one screen would have time, temperature and notification of harsh weather coming up. Another screen would have your gps and exercise stats. If you got an email it would beep, or maybe have a little notification number of emails.
I still can't see it happening at this time.
I still can't see it happening at this time.
If the watch will have no inputs - and sync all data from the iPhone, then I would expect the watch to have 2-3 months battery life.
LG make excellent screens. This whole notion of them making screens with retention issues is outdated. Every manufacturer has some problems when it comes to that.
I'm not adamant about anything.
He was putting down people for saying a watch is just a timepiece, which by definition it is.
I cannot see a use for the current smart watches and bio sensors in MY life. Doesn't mean it won't be popular. Just means I won't use one.
To each their own.
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Who is 'you people'?
I didn't say it would be garbage, I said I have no use for what is currently out there.
Jeez people.
You people is anyone who doesn't understand/acknowledge what bio sensors are. Because they aren't in any 'smart watches' currently available. I'll be the first to say that current smart watches are next to useless. The galaxy gear for example is just sad, especially at its price point. Message notifications and telling the time are missing the entire point of a wearable device.
Apple knows that a wearable device needs sensors to take advantage of the fact that it is something you are wearing almost constantly. The close-minded Macrumors forum posters aren't the people working at Apple luckily. Apple has open-minded inventive and highly imaginative smart people working for them, and that's just a fact.
I think a lot of people are hoping for an iPod touch wrapped around your wrist.
There are current limits to technology that currently can't allow for this to happen.
What has been put out thus far by pebble, samsung and Nike are what they can do currently without carrying around a battery pack with you at all times.
I don't see why people don't get this. May be different next year, but I can't see the situation being much different.
Nope that would be pointless. Bio sensors on the other hand are exactly what the doctor ordered no puns intended.
Some people just don't care how many steps they've taken in a day, believe it or not.
For people with medical conditions, some aspects of bio sensors make sense.
Again I am not saying there won't be a market for this item, I just personally cannot see it fitting in with my lifestyle.
Why can people not have differing opinions? I'm not saying your wrong, nor should you be saying I am wrong stating what's fits in with my life, or in this case doesn't.
Given Apple's track record, I think it will be something unique.
I didn't want a MP3 player, wasn't all that great, but after the iPod, I NEED a small music device.
I didn't want a smart phone, too hard to use, too geeky, not a good web experience, after the iPhone, I NEED to have one.
I didn't want a netbook, tablet or small portable computer, after the iPad, I NEED Apple's version of a small portable computer.
TC03 called it here first folks! I have a strong suspicion that he'll be very close to the mark! We'll see in 2014!
And if I have a use for one once released, I will buy one.
I remember lusting over a sony mini disc device, then the iPods slaughtered them, and I loved all of my iPods
If anyone can do it Apple will do it. I'm just staying on the fence until an actual product is shown off.