Amazon to Unveil New Echo Speaker With Touchscreen as Soon as Tomorrow

[Dave245]

I use my Watch for fitness everyday; and it's been on my wrist 12 hours a day for almost two years.

However, there's a huge difference between a watch that is targeted for serious runners/cyclists/etc and targeting a much broader market people who are looking for more than a fitness watch, which is what Apple is doing.

If Apple were to restrict their market to only people who were seriously into fitness, they would sell far fewer Watches.

If one is an elite runner or cyclist there are better watch choices - as you pointed out earlier. Fortunately, Apple has designed their Watch for a much broader range of the population - people with iPhones. That's where the money is.

It's a great smart watch, I'm not just saying that! Before the Apple Watch I never wore a watch at all I just didn't like them at all, now with the Apple Watch I can track my runs, see how many calories I've burned, distance I've run and so on, I can also get notifications from my iPhone, txt messages and so on, It's also stylish, I can change the many bands I have on a daily basis (something you can't do with most other watches) so yea I would agree with you it's made for the more mainstream and we love it I'm looking forward to the Apple Watch 3 I will be upgrading from my current first gen Apple Watch. The only thing I wish they would improve is battery life.

 

[citysnaps]

It's a great smart watch, I'm not just saying that! Before the Apple Watch I never wore a watch at all I just didn't like them at all, now with the Apple Watch I can track my runs, see how many calories I've burned, distance I've run and so on, I can also get notifications from my iPhone, txt messages and so on, It's also stylish, I can change the many bands I have on a daily basis (something you can't do with most other watches) so yea I would agree with you it's made for the more mainstream and we love it I'm looking forward to the Apple Watch 3 I will be upgrading from my current first gen Apple Watch. The only thing I wish they would improve is battery life.

Well said.

I was skeptical buying the AW having not had a watch on my wrist for more than ten years. I assumed I'd be returning it after a short evaluation. Still, I needed to actually try one on my wrist for a week rather than listen to all the negative whiney buh-blah on tech forums from people who had zero experience with one. After a week I came to the conclusion there was no way I was sending it back.

 

[Dave245]

After a week I came to the conclusion there was no way I was sending it back.

Exactly my thoughts, i wouldn't be without my Apple Watch now and I have to say that Tim Cook was right when he said Apple would be releasing products that "you can't live without" so far he has lived up to that with both the Apple Watch and now the Airpods, that's just my opinion of course, they both sit alongside the iPhone, iPad and Mac in that respect.

 

[citysnaps]

Exactly my thoughts, i wouldn't be without my Apple Watch now and I have to say that Tim Cook was right when he said Apple would be releasing products that "you can't live without" so far he has lived up to that with both the Apple Watch and now the Airpods, that's just my opinion of course, they both sit alongside the iPhone, iPad and Mac in that respect.

Feel the same way about my AirPods. Based upon a forum member's recommendation (MH01) about using them for phone calls, I was able to eventually snag a pair. Took four months, and it was pure luck the store had them in stock momentarily. Apple is still quoting 6 weeks delivery.

Use mine all the time, unlike other earphones/headphones I've tried over the years. And they're awesome for phone conversations. The charging box is genius. Have yet to run out of charge.

 

[Vanilla35]

Apple won't outsell them combined but they'll outsell Amazon and Google individually adjusting for launch dates ..yadda yadda yadda

Tbh I think this time it might be different. I could be completely off the mark on this one, but while Apple still has a great reputation, I'm not certain Siri does. This is a Siri device, and I think it really might hang in the balance of how WWDC goes.

Apple watch has only been different because the competition was worse. Here the competition may be better.

 

[44267547]

Seems you don't understand that Apple's target audience for the Watch is broad (people with an iPhone), and not specific to athletes.

That's difficult to determine what's considered a "Target audience." Based on the Apple Watch has so many capabilities, everybody uses it differently, which you can't narrow it down to one specific target audience. There are forum members who use the Watch strictly for notifications and others for fitness, and then there are those who just use it as a Watch in general for the sake of a "Fashion piece."

As Much as I like my Apple Watch, I don't utilize the camera control option, I don't utilize controlling my music for my iPhone, and I rarely use it for phone calls. That said, someone Does not have to use all the Capabilities for the Apple Watch to be useful.

My point is, because the Apple Watch isn't restricted to one capability, how one chooses to utilize the Apple Watch functions is solely Dependent on the user, which a target audience is a gray Area with no real Target or is undefined. As you said, it's Broad.

 

[Tech198]

If there is one thing i value about Amazon, is how fast they make it ready,... next day...

Wish Apple could do this. but all we see are problems and not enough to make... doesn't really make sense many more people would have an Amazon eco and be a prime member.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

These devices need a likeable form factor such as R2-D2 or the lampshade iMac

 

[saile]

Obviously (as always) it will be poorly designed. No output jack, of course, to avoid having a sound quality. I guess there will be no model without a camera (espionage goes a little far)
Will it be available next June? That is what we were told for the Echo in June 2014. We're still waiting ...