Well I hope they're focusing on function and what form would best fit that function. These other devices seem to be focusing on 'how do we make this look like a traditional watch', and trying to fit the function around that.
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Well I hope they're focusing on function and what form would best fit that function. These other devices seem to be focusing on 'how do we make this look like a traditional watch', and trying to fit the function around that.
Ah, but then there's the display supplier... whatever shape it's going to be.
Yep, it's an open secret that Jobs sold his soul to create Apple Computer.
That's why I think the iWatch will be like the curved band/screen mock up shown here a couple of weeks ago with a row of iOS icons.
Some are just bad, but others are hilariously bad (such as the one fronting this article). So just what does the chronometer ring do in this concept? The winding stem? Nothing, they were just ripped from the image of another watch. Sure looks like a Jony Ive design to me. Anyway, I can see why a lot of posters here don't get Apple, but the real question is why MR doesn't seem to get Apple.
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Okay Photoshop jocks, what we really need here is a Steve Jobs watch. You know what I am talking about. Don't make me explain it.
Rotary phones and flip phones were never accessories that people carried around that made a statement in terms of design.
Watches are, have been, and always will be.
A slab of glass and metal won't look good on a wrist. A circular face and simple band will. That's why people think the iWatch will look like the rendering in the original post, or at least something long the lines of a design that's been refined and worn for 100s of years.
Apple has no doubt spent a kings ransom of R&D money on this, and the incredible tech coming out of it will be applicable to the rest of their mobile devices, but still, to me this is looking more and more like will be one of the few Apple bombs. What can it do that a smartphone can't to make it a must-have accessory? A lot of men are already predisposed against wearing jewelry, but geek-tech jewelry?
This is where marketing has to be on par with the gadget. They better get it right, right off the bat because there will be an eager media keeping close tabs on it and ready to trash it. Any missteps coming out of the gate could do irreparable harm.
This is where marketing has to be on par with the gadget. They better get it right, right off the bat because there will be an eager media keeping close tabs on it and ready to trash it. Any missteps coming out of the gate could do irreparable harm.
to be innovative
If Apple is reportedly creating sensors and such so small that would monitor pulse etc, it would have to be in the wrist band, not under the head of the device itself. Every check your pulse? it's not on the top of the bones of your arm or wrist, it is under your wrist. I think Apple could put out something epic with a smart watch and an accompanying smart wrist band. BOOM.
If Apple is reportedly creating sensors and such so small that would monitor pulse etc, it would have to be in the wrist band, not under the head of the device itself. Every check your pulse? it's not on the top of the bones of your arm or wrist, it is under your wrist. I think Apple could put out something epic with a smart watch and an accompanying smart wrist band. BOOM.
It's easy to see some of the reasons why people might want it. Even easy to see how some may use it, based upon what little we know of it at the moment.
It's as easy to see why some may not want it, or have little use for it.
If it needs an iPhone I'm not getting one (dumped my iPhone, don't want people to interrupt lab work, can't use one while driving and have no need for it at home).
If it needs wifi or 4g/LTE to be of use I'm not getting one; no need to make it easier to arrest and charge me (yeah I'm a tin foil hat wearing member...so what)
So what will it do.....give me biometric information? A Siri operated calculator? Interface with the Apple TV in some nifty manner (that intrigues me a bit). It will of course sell; I just don't want one.
Tom
And just because someone posts a concept on Behance or wherever doesn't mean it deserves attention. Graphical concepts like this don't require physical prototypes, don't have to be engineered to actually work, they just need to look slick. That's how we end up with these iPhone concepts that show a super thin device with no bezel.
Very impressed by your worship of a man who killed at least 87 million people.
Soooooo true.
The truth is that no one needs a wrist watch anymore. Phones have long replaced the wrist watch. Wrist watches today are a fashion accessory and nothing more.
So if Apple makes a wrist watch, it better be a really really damn good looking watch.
Have you seen the 2007 iPhone mock ups?
I don't care if the watch has been around for a million years. The fact is that we don't know yet what the true potential of a smart watch really is. Concepts are just that, concepts.
Exactly. Motorola & google has been very careful to not show a real live version up close. Everything in the demo videos were composited shots. Let's see what a real one looks and feels like.
yup, I've seen the 2007 iPhone mockups.
you still can't equate a portable personal telephone, something which was only in the mass consumer market for a couple decades before the iPhone, to something which has been worn and refined by centuries.
I'm not saying that the iwatch will definitely look like wristwatches as we know them. we have no idea. you're right that it could look like something we've never seen before. I am explaining why it would make sense, and why these mockups and renderings may not be as off as those for the iPhone a few years ago.
but like you said, we have no idea.
Then you should know to take these concepts with a grain of salt. These concepts come pouring in without an ounce of thought when it comes to function or how its design breaks new ground. Looking cool isn't enough.
I'm betting that the iWatch will have functions for the AppleTV. Motion detection for flipping through channels and playing games? I do think that it will be more of a stylish band than the traditional watch. Something that is very thin, light, intuitive, tasteful, and with a great battery life.
Sure and just add a keyboard to the bottom half and we'll have the old calculator watch again.
To the contrary, Moto COMPLETELY shied away from it... Josh quite literally begged the designer wearing it to show even one single function & he flat out refused. You have an interesting definition of "happily showing off".
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if the price is right, more or less the price of a 16Gb iPhone, i'll get one
Ummm, here in the United States the iPhone is $650 for a 16gb.
Lol, you are setting a very, very, very low bar for acceptable price, Richie Rich! =P I think most of the rest of us are hoping for a sub $300 product.