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Former Nike FuelBand Consultant Jay Blahnik Confirms Apple Hiring [Update: Confirmed by AllThingsD]
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Pretty much everywhere in any skilled business unless one has a unique ability, specialty, or portable client portfolio. It's not just Apple.
See this is my problem with the gold OPTION. It's just that. and OPTION. No one is required to buy them and i have in my experience that Apple's color options always look better in person than in photos or promotional material.
I had absolutely no interest in an iWatch until now. I love the Nike+ fitness system. Having logged 18,000 miles using Nike+, I'm reluctant to make the switch to a more full-featured device (such as the FitBit). If an iWatch includes fitness-related features and lets me carry over my Nike+ miles, I'll be the first in line to purchase one.
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Perhaps the gimmick could involve snapping a picture of the cloths you're wearing and having the watch's theme adapt to the colors. Kind of like the Nest changing colors based on its environment.
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Seems like Apple will be late to the game if they are just recruiting him...seems like a year off.
hopefully this doesn't mean that iwatch will turn out to be one of those bs trend jogging wrist straps that have been available from other brands for the past several years.
This is probably the most ridiculous comment I ever read in this blog in the last 3 years.
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... And the best one.
Just change the grey background from his photo to a white one and he will be perfect in an Apple promo video. Perhaps even on Apple's executive listing web page.
Personally, I want a less expensive, less obtrusive device that's there when I look down at my wrist but gone otherwise.
Some people, like myself, still have some sense of decency and aren't willing to look like an idiotic nerdy £&ick.
I wear glasses anyway (my eye sight is terrible, I'm half way there to blindness) so I can't possibly look any more nerdy than I do, and who cares. Google glass is amazing
As a person who already wears prescription eyewear, Google Glass won't be an option to me (or millions of others).
So now you don't have to wonder anymore.
I wear glasses anyway (my eye sight is terrible, I'm half way there to blindness) so I can't possibly look any more nerdy than I do, and who cares. Google glass is amazing
I wear glasses too. That doesn't mean I am keen on pointing a video recording machine at people. Neither I want to live my life through a machine popping notifications.
Having said that, I understand some would like to use google glass. I won't.
As a person who already wears prescription eyewear, Google Glass won't be an option to me (or millions of others).
So now you don't have to wonder anymore.
There is already a version in the works for people that wear prescription eyewear. You think Eric Schmidt hasn't thought about that before?
So, the recent hirings make it clear that fitness/ health monitoring will be a significant aspect of the iWatch. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to see where Apple is going with this. Whenever they have succeeded brilliantly in the past--with music players, smartphones, and tablet computers--they introduced game-changing devices that redefined their respective categories. Whenever they failed to do this and instead released a "me too" offering (think Apple TV, Newton) they have been far less successful. And this is my problem with the idea of a "superwatch.' The burgeoning fitness market is already saturated with slick devices that have excellent cloud integration. For example, I use my Garmin Forerunner to track my running and cycling, and it records a wealth of data and seamlessly uploads it to Garmin's excellent site for tracking and analysis. Recently, I jumped into the Fitbit ecosystem by purchasing a Fitbit One activity monitor for overall daily activity tracking, as well as a Fitbit Aria scale for tracking my weight and %body fat. Again, the web integration and social networking aspects are extremely well done. And the space is already quite crowded with impressive offerings from many vendors. So, what will Apple bring to the table?
Of course, what my Garmin and Fitbit don't do are help me keep track of my appointments, assist me with personal navigation, provide news updates and weather forecasts, etc. I could see Apple attempting to create such a comprehensive experience in a "superwatch," but in a time when smartphones already do all these things really well, and most people are quite comfortable carrying a smartphone at all times, I just don't see what a superwatch would add to our lives. I'm hoping I'm wrong and Apple comes up with something really amazing, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Of course, what my Garmin and Fitbit don't do are help me keep track of my appointments, assist me with personal navigation, provide news updates and weather forecasts, etc. I could see Apple attempting to create such a comprehensive experience in a "superwatch," but in a time when smartphones already do all these things really well, and most people are quite comfortable carrying a smartphone at all times, I just don't see what a superwatch would add to our lives. I'm hoping I'm wrong and Apple comes up with something really amazing, but we'll just have to wait and see.
We call this product the "iWatch", but it seems likely that telling time is the least of any of its functions. It might end up with a very different name
Still some people will say this is a watch...and that people stopped using them in the 70s
You think only Samsung can create a screen?
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Im sure Samsung will release premature S watch to make Apple copying them.. then suddenly change after Apple release.
