Apple 'Aggressively' Hiring for Smart Watch Project, Looking Toward Late 2014 Launch

[Porco]

Apple is "aggressively" hiring new employees

'You want a job with us to help make the iWatch? WELL YOU'RE HIRED, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? Get into the office NOW! Don't you look at me or so help me I'll… '

 

[sjwr]

iWatch ?

I know they are protecting iWatch name but I'm guessing "watch" will not appear in final product name, and device will be far more innovative and better product than other wrist devices coming earlier to market. Telling the time is way down list of use cases for wearable computing and I bet name will reflect that. So we could have some fun guessing the name

 

[needfx]

I know they are protecting iWatch name but I'm guessing "watch" will not appear in final product name, and device will be far more innovative and better product than other wrist devices coming earlier to market. Telling the time is way down list of use cases for wearable computing and I bet name will reflect that. So we could have some fun guessing the name

iCarpaltunnelsyndrome

 

[motulist]

Anyone who thinks an Apple "iWatch" will fail is on the wrong side of history.

Obviously. I mean clearly Apple has never created a product in the Jobs-returned era that failed to be a huge success. Oh, wait...

G4 cube
MobileMe
dot.Mac
buttonless ipod shuffle
Ping
hockeypuck mouse
etc...

 

[joelvega125]

Who will care about the iWatch at the end of 2014?

 

[Chatter]

He is not trolling

It's a mock up...... Just a concept macrumors posted it's not the actual product. Calm down don't go off on a rant. Then again u prob already know that and just trolling.

I bet he actually believes the nonsense he has written.

 

[Tankmaze]

“hard engineering problems that they’ve not been able to solve”, according to one source.

Hopefully they are working hard on the battery life.
It's kinda useless for a watch to have to recharge everyday like an iphone,
I wont wear it and would rather use the iphone for clock if it has short battery life.

 

[Thunderhawks]

I'm waiting for pointless trump cards like "Highest resolution display on a watch ever"

I am not even waiting for anything.

Just amazing how many negative posters without even an inkling what Apple will do are ripping it and criticize already. How dumb can one be?

Add to that that none of these people here have ever created anything, but feel that they have enough expertise to knock Apple for something they know nothing about.

Obviously this project needs time (if it even happens at all) to do it within Apple's standards.

So, all you keyboard terrorists, just wait until it's released.

Until then chill!!!!

You have lived all you negative lives without it. Nothing changes for you.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Does anyone else not care at all about an "iWatch?"

Does anyone remember the same thing being said about the iPad?

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It's mind-boggling that this company has decided on a watch as its next avenue for revenue growth. What a dumb idea.

Does anyone remember...

Oh, never mind.

 

[maxosx]

Does anyone else not care at all about an "iWatch?"

For sake of conversation we'll call Apple's smart watch the iWatch.

However when we take into account Apple's self serving priorities, it's internal code name is what truly reveals its main purpose.

Oh, what's it's code name you ask?

"iTracker"

 

[Macist]

Aggressively hiring?

'Come and work on our watch or we'll punch your face in.'

 

[dogster]

ugh

I will not watch

 

[Bladers]

OMG when did you see the iWatch in action and it's user experience? That's amazing!!! I cannot believe you work for Apple and are allowed to post here considering their NDA.

I'm glad you came here and told us everything about it since you've seen it actually in person and actually being used in an everyday environment and are working on the project.

/s

Forgive me for being the only one who used his brain to analyze the obvious user limitation of a Watch.

 

[macchiato2009]

haha don't expect any watch or TV to be ready before 2015

 

[CFreymarc]

Apple has to complete with Glass somehow. I bet this is their counter to it. Glass was birth in-house from Google's X Labs, but They scrambling to acquire smart watch start-ups and companies?

Come to think of it, "you don't innovate anymore my ass"

Google Glass is not a product. It is a huge semi-public concept prototype. IMO, you will not see this or any other heads up AR device on the mass market anytime soon. Apple entered the smart phone market late, cleaned the clock of the established players and they'll do the same here.

 

[ElTorro]

Forgive me for being the only one who used his brain to analyze the obvious user limitation of a Watch.

Good one! Funny how you get lectured on not using hard facts in your comment on a rumors website.

 

[Bladers]

You might want to step away from the keyboard, go outside and get some exercise because clearly you don't get enough. Anyone who has a Nike FuelBand or Garmin Forerunner knows part of what the iWatch will do. It will have biosensors to track you heart rate, calories burned and other things. It will have GPS to track distance and can sync to a iPhone or iPad to track workouts and other data. There are many things a small device strapped to a wrist can do that a phone cannot. The iWatch won't be a huge seller like the iPhone and iPad but for a lot of people it will be a very useful gadget.

In regards to Google Glass, that sure seems like a product that has Segway written all over it. Lots of prerelease buzz but I'd be stunned if doesn't hit the market with a loud thud.

ignorance is bliss. Nike FuelBand or Garmin Forerunner does not have "biosensors". You are so clueless you don't even know what 'biosensor' is. I doubt you know what 'bio' means because you wont use it in your post. That right there should me the end of my post. but I digress.

There are not many things a small device strapped to a wrist can do that a phone cannot. (Plus you listed one). A phone can do all those things you just mentioned; which is to track your distance, calculate calories burned, steps taken. All of that are software features, there is no "biosensors".

lol

You are hilarious tell me to take a step back seeing I'm a windows phone 8, android and Iphone developer and what qualifies you? oh yeah you are just a fan. lmfao.

Glass is miles ahead of any smartWatch technology or concept. If anyone can't see it, its because of their fanboism. If the shoe was switched and it was apple who came up with Glass, you won't be saying the garbage you spewing now.

so please save it.

 

[blubyu]

Sadly, Apple could do exactly this and there are some people who would call it revolutionary and eat it up.

You are the same idiot that said the iPad was an upscaled iPhone. ****ing moron.

 

[Ryth]

Forgive me for being the only one who used his brain to analyze the obvious user limitation of a Watch.

Do you belong to the same collective brain that analyzed the obvious user limitations of the iPhone and iPad?

 

[Bladers]

Google Glass is not a product. It is a huge semi-public concept prototype. IMO, you will not see this or any other heads up AR device on the mass market anytime soon. Apple entered the smart phone market late, cleaned the clock of the established players and they'll do the same here.

Glass is set to be released late 2013.

I don't understand how you can hate on a piece of tech that if the company you love came out with it, we wouldn't hear the end of it from u.

My gosh, you people are too much for me. I'm done.

 

[HiRez]

Late 2014? What the hell? Guaranteed Samsung and probably others will have one out well in advance of that then. Sure, they will probably not be very good, but they'll sell a lot of them and establish the market, and make Apple look like the follower instead of the leader.

EDIT: Of course, maybe that is actually a good plan. Let Samsung and Google come out with their watches, everyone yawns and say OK big deal, now Apple will have one. And then Apple releases theirs which is nothing like anyone thought an "iWatch" would or should be like, and all of a sudden the Samsung and Google watches look embarrassingly clunky and quaint. Well, it happened with phones, so it could happen again.

 

[adildacoolset]

You haven't thought it through yet. There is absolutely no new user experience that a smartWatch provides that a phone doesn't

Their user experience is absolutely the same

1) You use the same motion to use them. Bringing your arm from its resting position to your stomach.
That same motion you use to bring your phone from your pocket.

2) You both have to raise your arm to your mouth to talk to it. So no new user experience there.

3) You use the same touch functions on it. So no new user experience there aswell.

4) You need an earphone to listen to any sort of music or sound. no new user experience there also.

It even hinders privacy because everyone can see what you doing so you probably can't read text on it. with a phone you can actually hold it in an angle that blocked others from seeing what you doing.


The user experience is the same. nothing new you are bringing to users.
Its essentially a phone strapped to your hand.

While Glass provides an endless amount of new user experience

I'm just saying, that try to see which is faster: checking the time on a watch, or checking the time on a phone from your pocket. They don't use the same motion. Checking a watch face is not only faster, but it doesn't shift your focus away. And people accept that people do this all the time.

I understand what you're saying, but glass also has some major flaws. Lets not forget those.

1. It disrupts social interaction by "coming in the way" (it does happen, despite what google says)

2. What you get in glass s not really a new experience as well. Seeing the time and google now cards? Voice command? All of these are from a phone. You just access them faster. It's not a "new experience"

3. People are already very familiar with watches, and won't really have problems buying one. Glass has got a very different design, which may discourage many from buying it. Because not many people are comfortable with technology on their face. Also, glass is almost exclusively used by voice recognition– something not many people are fond of.

4. Glass hinders privacy as well. Even worse than a watch. People will be able to take videos without any consent. Third party tweaks can disable the red light, leaving people free to record without being noticed.

5. Glass looks uuuugly. The fat frame isn't very attractive to non-geeks. And people who use "smart glasses" will look like douchebags. People normally wear glasses because of their vision impairment. And a glass user? It leaves a very negative impression.

6. The bone conduction speakers still allow everyone so listen to what you can hear. That can get really annoying to people sitting around.

I'm not denying that glass is an amazing piece of tech. But fundamentally, the concept of smart glasses is flawed. Technology shouldn't come in the way of what you're doing. It should be natural, and produce a very cohesive experience– even when you're busy doing something else. This is, in my opinion, where glass falls short.

 

[Bladers]

Do you belong to the same collective brain that analyzed the obvious user limitations of the iPhone and iPad?

So defensive. Someone analyzes the limitation of smartWatches in general and all the apple apologists attack him. Its not that i even said anything bad about apple.

Find me one post negative about Apple or their future smartWatch. I listed obvious limitations and similarities to a phone functionality.

Like the fact you can't take a picture or record a video without an added accessory. Or the fact you won't be able to listen to any sound or music without another accessory. Like the fact you won't be able to speak to it without holding it up like you accomplish with a phone today or using an added accessory.

These are obvious limitations, only a die hard would be offended by someone listing them.

 

[alexgowers]

I've said it already and will continue to say that the iwatch will not be a success not because it won't be brilliant in design and function but that the watch industry is not something that needs to be changed.

The watch is a jewellery item, the ipad, iphone ipod etc are all tech items apple has made into jewellery. It will not be possible to go the other way, so so so many companies have tried and failed.

It goes against apple's mantra of not creating a product that is a compromise between two categories but is a new product in and of itself.

I don't wear a watch myself and would not start wearing one no matter how smart it was or how nice looking it was, it has no function for me, i already have the time and don't want to charge another item that duplicates other functions on my phone tablet or laptop.

I could very much see apple doing an apple TV style watch project that is classed as hobby with no real profit making outcome, that might be cool but I cannot see this project working long term as an item of the post PC era that could ever stand on it's own or work as an extra to the family.

I can see it as a sports device, swimming running etc, heart rate monitor etc and all the functions that you could link into it that an iphone in a pocket could not do but there must only be two or three things and even then there is a small but established market already doing that.

I just don't get it like I got the ipad and iphone at very first glance they were for me at least ground breaking in the way they were designed to work and run. They had endless uses that a computer did not, they were portable, instant on and connected. The watch must have a trick up it's sleeve to break out of that formula to win it's place on the wrist.

 

[JesusQuintana]

ignorance is bliss. Nike FuelBand or Garmin Forerunner does not have "biosensors". You are so clueless you don't even know what 'biosensor' is. I doubt you know what 'bio' means because you wont use it in your post.
There are not many things a small device strapped to a wrist can do that a phone cannot. A phone can do all those things you just listened which is track you distance, calculate carioes burned, steps taken.

All of that. All that is software, there is no "biosensors".
You are hilarious tell me to take a step back seeing I'm a windows phone 8, android and Iphone developer and what qualify you? or yeah you are just a fan. lmfao.

Glass is miles ahead of any smartWatch technology or concept. If anyone can't see it, its because of their fanboism. If the shoe was switched and it was apple who came up with Glass, you don't be saying the **** you saying now.

so please save it.

Wow, you are a windows phone 8, android and iPhone developer. Is that like the new "I slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night" thing?"

The Nike FuelBand and Garmin Forerunner do not have sensors (though the Garmin has a heart rate monitor strap) and that is why the iWatch will relegate those to the dustbin of history. Did you not listen to Tim Cook at the D11 conference? He mentioned the FuelBand and talked about how the sensor field would explode.

If you would tone down your geek hostility and listen a little to what executives at Apple say you would get a good idea of where the company is going with the product.

Regarding Glass, quite a few of the initial reviews from beta testers have not be very flattering. If the hard-core devotees who shelled out $1500 to get the device before release are disappointed, what chance does the product have with the general public?