We got an iPhone.
I love the idea of a watch IF there is something really useful Apple can come up with to make it more than just a smart calendar and time keeper.
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Apple's Rumored iWatch as an 'Even More Personal Personal Computer'
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We got an iPhone.
I love the idea of a watch IF there is something really useful Apple can come up with to make it more than just a smart calendar and time keeper.
I don't understand why hearing would be a huge problem, even without an ear piece. As for the car, there is a very simple solution available-- just integrate with your car's sound system.
I've seen it happen too many times before. Most recently was the iPad. I can't count how many posts I read saying that the iPad would be a complete failure that their was absolutely no need for it. Apple had lost its touch and all that. How is the iPad doing? Exactly.
Lets also not forget how many times I had to hear that Apple would absolutely fail at the Apple Store idea. People said they would be closing up their last store in a years time!! Oh and how are the Apple Stores doing, even in this time where everyone is buying online? Exactly.
Do I need to go on people? I can name many devices and ideas that Apple has had that I hear and read the exact same responses too. Yet look at the results of them? I'm not saying Apple will never make a product ever again that just fails. Oh I am sure they will. Every company will/does. Though it's the same thing every time Apple releases something.
Here is something it seems most people here haven't quite understood. We are not the market. The market is the average every day user, like my grandmother, that just knows how to access her email, browse the web, and other very basic stuff. What has made the iPhone/iPad keep selling with all this competition out there? It is because they do market their products for that crowd! Ask yourself, your grandmother or parents want to get a tech device but don't know a lot about tech. They just want a device they always works, almost never have to worry about, EXTREMELY easy to use, and doesn't change a lot to scare them? What device would you suggest for them? Yep exactly, an iPhone, iPod Touch, or an iPad. That is what most of the market is. We here are the minority that are tech loving people that like to push our devices to their limits and sometimes beyond.
Walk into an Apple Store and just listen to some people talk. Most people in their are not creative professionals, tech loving nerds, or anything like that. They are the average every day person that just barely knows how their devices work.
I would not say that this device is a fail, especially when we don't even know it if it is real (the concept drawing looks like their is no way that would come from Apples Design team).
Also just to say what Steve Jobs would always quote from Henry Ford:
"'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.' It's our job to show people what they want."
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In my job I'm allowed to look at my phone when I want, going to med school pays off. I'm an adult, not in high school anymore, no one can tell me to put my phone away
Why would this be better than a headset?
I can listen to music on a headset. I can use Siri, (with a microphone that is actually near my mouth hole.)
And I can use a headset without charging it up every day.
The Apple iWatch - like a headset but somewhat less useful!
actually, that watch was never anything special. The real deal was the car. If Michael walked around just talking to a watch, a lot of viewers would probably think that he's insane
indeed. I think there is a bunch of granpa's in here that just dont like any kind of change.
A watch is so much more practical to read texts or twitters than a phone. And a voice interface (siri) to communicate back is needed, since a keyboard on something as small as a watch is impractical.
If you're jogging, walking or cycling, a watch connected to your headphones and running up your arm is SO much better than headphones connected to your pocket. You can change songs or song apps easily instead of taking out your phone from your pocket, while your legs are moving.
If you're someone who spends time commuting on a bus or train, a watch is not needed, but someone who walks or bikes to work, or exercises on a treadmill, a watch is so much better than an iPod. (I've sent my iPod crashing when I've set it on a machine, and my headphones are connected to my ears. I leave the workstation, and forget about the iPod, and crash. A watch would eliminate all that).
Bluetooth headphones with a watch would be awesome. Hands free all the time.
If you're jogging, walking or cycling, a watch connected to your headphones and running up your arm is SO much better than headphones connected to your pocket. You can change songs or song apps easily instead of taking out your phone from your pocket, while your legs are moving.
If you're someone who spends time commuting on a bus or train, a watch is not needed, but someone who walks or bikes to work, or exercises on a treadmill, a watch is so much better than an iPod. (I've sent my iPod crashing when I've set it on a machine, and my headphones are connected to my ears. I leave the workstation, and forget about the iPod, and crash. A watch would eliminate all that).
Bluetooth headphones with a watch would be awesome. Hands free all the time.
screen is going to be too small to do anything! my index finger will probably cover half the watch..
talking into your watch in public is not always convenient either.
talking into your watch in public is not always convenient either.
yeah, I can't really see the need for this...
(but then again, I didn't know the usefulness of a camera in a cellphone either, 15 years ago...)
Things I won't do on a watch
Thinking of it... here are things I would NOT DO with an iWatch.
1. Talk into the watch.
2. Watch a movie.
3. Read an email longer than 10 words.
4. Play a game.
5. write anything.
6. Surf the web.
Things I WOULD do...
1. See what time it is.
2. Read a text message.
3. View a picture of a loved one (this would be limited.
4. Use as a GPS like device while walking.
5. Get reminders.
6. Listen to music via a Bluetooth headset.
7. Use as a pedometer.
8. Use as a payment device via scanner or NFIC
9. Remote start my car????
That's all I can think of.
Anyone else???? Got some good uses or non-uses for one of these?
Thinking of it... here are things I would NOT DO with an iWatch.
1. Talk into the watch.
2. Watch a movie.
3. Read an email longer than 10 words.
4. Play a game.
5. write anything.
6. Surf the web.
Things I WOULD do...
1. See what time it is.
2. Read a text message.
3. View a picture of a loved one (this would be limited.
4. Use as a GPS like device while walking.
5. Get reminders.
6. Listen to music via a Bluetooth headset.
7. Use as a pedometer.
8. Use as a payment device via scanner or NFIC
9. Remote start my car????
That's all I can think of.
Anyone else???? Got some good uses or non-uses for one of these?
Imagine opposite forces picking up a watch off a dead/injury marine showing them where the rest of his squad/platoon is.
It is not a video game. It is actually the real deal. Combat beyond the couch.
Besides constantly broadcasting means you can be tracked. Don't even need the info being transmitted. You are painting a picture in the EM space.
You would look less weird wearing a watchband than a headset!
Those white headsets seem to have caught on where I live.
And you can listen to music on them too.
And they only cost $20 or so.
And the mike picks up your voice pretty good, because it isn't at the end of your arm.
The iWatch - Like headphones but for deaf people.
Yes. You understand. But this is no Kickstarter Software/Functions.
90% of the posts in here focus on a headphone jack.
That is like looking at a new car and focusing on the Wiper Fluid you put in.
Comical.
It will surpass the mini in demand.
Now I'm beginning to like it. If it's a >30 inch watch -and it's comfortable to wear-, I'll buy it.
If you are in a meeting, fiddling with your phone to handle a call or text is ungood, but a glance at your watch is better. You can avoid disruption, even be stealthy about it - people "steal a glance" at their watch to check how long this boring meeting is going on all the time.Can't do that with a phone. See who's calling, read the text, see where the email is from. Then you can make a triage-like decision about replying or taking the call. Even putting your watch near your mouth dick tracy style and whispering a question to Siri and seeing the answer on the watch face is fairly unobtrusive compared to whipping out a phone or pad. Why do you think secret agents do that instead of talking to a big walkie talkie?
You left out a step between 2 and 3: The stock price takes a dive after the announcement, because investors feel it doesn't live up to rumors and isn't innovative enough.
There should be a Hall of Fame for best comments. Your comment, sir, belongs there. If anyone was around when the iPad was announced after the months and months and months of hype, you know how negative the reaction was at the time (people were disappointed it didn't run OS X, among other things). It was ridiculed for months, until people realized how incredible the sales were, and then they became more open to the idea.
Thinking of it... here are things I would NOT DO with an iWatch.
1. Talk into the watch.
2. Watch a movie.
3. Read an email longer than 10 words.
4. Play a game.
5. write anything.
6. Surf the web.
Things I WOULD do...
1. See what time it is.
2. Read a text message.
3. View a picture of a loved one (this would be limited.
4. Use as a GPS like device while walking.
5. Get reminders.
6. Listen to music via a Bluetooth headset.
7. Use as a pedometer.
8. Use as a payment device via scanner or NFIC
9. Remote start my car????
That's all I can think of.
Anyone else???? Got some good uses or non-uses for one of these?
I Agree with not talking into the watch.