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

Bladers said:
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.
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Not defensive at all. Pointing out that you are making reviews based on your subjective view of what the watch will be according to your design/idea.

The only correct and OBJECTIVE reviews will be the one when the watch comes out.

You cannot list limitations of something you don't know anything about nor that has been released.

#fact
 
People still wear watches? I always check the date/time by clicking one button on my iPhone.
 
I do not see Apple mentioning iWatch to come in late 2014.

Its either stock manipulation for tomorrow (looks like stock will move much better either way only after earnings which is due soon) or some anal yst want to throw some random dates as they are all over places these days with dates and product releases!
 
eyebye said:
People still wear watches? I always check the date/time by clicking one button on my iPhone.
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Yes, believe it or not, they do. I tried going without one for quite awhile, but got tired of having to reach into my pocket whenever I needed to know the time. Of course some people don't understand that it's rude to be late.

Not that this product is going to be a watch.
 
This is so 1950's glum...

Glum... So 1950's, this is why the big shiny red fruit company hired that fruity designer to come in and watch over the flamboyant new designs for these bulky wrist thingies.
 
tevion5 said:
Just like we didn't care about the iPad? Or the introduction of personal computing?

We shall wait and see if it will take off. Nobody knows yet.
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The iPad was something new in a relatively untested market. Other than the Apple Newton, and the existing portable laptop tablet conversions for business, there no slate type devices on the market like the iPad. There were eBook readers, but those were mainly in black and white. The same goes for personal computing. It was a new business.

The iWatch is entering a fairly well established market place. Everyone knows what a watch is, and because of mobile phones, people are wearing watches less and less. Unless you really need one, like nurses taking vital signs (which they automate now), it becomes a status symbol. Frankly, it's a niche market, and the iWatch will likely be a niche within the niche.
 
This is typical of people before a new device is released from Apple.

1. Rumor Begins
2. Ideas Start Formulating
3. People Complain or are Skeptical
4. Apple Releases Product, Introduces "Things so obvious" - Markets the Hell out of it
5. Everyone buys it - Everyones Happy

Then we repeat this pattern over and over again until the end of mankind ;)
 
BruceEBonus said:
A cracking idea then. An iPod Nano on a watch strap. Whatever next? They'll be making a mini version of the iPad probably. That's amazing innovation isn't it? Steve would be proud if he was alive today at how Tim Cook has preserved his legacy of ground breaking innovation .....
Oh no! What am I saying?. It's just another harebrained New Apple 'idea' rehashing different versions of the old innovations and hoping no one will notice.
Steve would in fact be turning in his grave instead.
It's only a matter of time before folks wake up and realise that (whisper it) New Apple are treading water ... There's only so long you can get away with rebadging the same old stuff. Harley Davidson have been getting away with rebooting the same bike for the past 30 years but there's no such retro street cred with technology.
Please. No more waffle. Lets lead once more. It's not too late. But. Sadly it soon will be if this is the best they can come up with :mad:
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I'm pretty sure watches is Steve's idea. He prepared product plans for the next 5 years. But Cook can screw up everything. Probably those "hard engineering problems" is a sign of his management abilities. Maybe engineering now is done by a marketing department just like iOS design.
 
If this ever does go into production--which i doubt--rumors of peak apple will be confirmed. No wonder the stock has tanked
 
Mactendo said:
I'm pretty sure watches is Steve's idea. He prepared product plans for the next 5 years.
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Just because Jobs "prepared" product plans for the next 5 years it doesn't means that every product Apple makes during that time is necessarily one of Jobs' ideas, likewise just because a product was part of a product plan Jobs made, it doesn't guarantee that it will actually be made. The technology world is fast changing and an idea that looked good one year doesn't necessarily looks good the next.
 
Evoken said:
Just because Jobs "prepared" product plans for the next 5 years it doesn't means that every product Apple makes during that time is necessarily one of Jobs' ideas, likewise just because a product was part of a product plan Jobs made, it doesn't guarantee that it will actually be made. The technology world is fast changing and an idea that looked good one year doesn't necessarily looks good the next.
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It can be so, but so what? I'm still pretty sure iWatch is Steve's idea.
New products in new categories are not made on one day and before any rumors appeared there were many months/years of internal development from first idea to first prototypes. I don't think current management is capable of fast development of a completely new hardware product.
 
Bladers said:
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
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Glass might have potential, but it also provides endless amount of challenges, both socially and technologically. As proof, the first incarnation of Glass is ridiculously bad from a usefulness standpoint and there's already growing resistance to its adoption due to privacy issues.

Oh, and there is a *HUGE* difference between a phone and glancing down at your wrist. You also haven't thought through what a paired device with a smartphone can do in terms of elevating usefulness, not to mention, security. My money is on iWatch over Glass, though that's an easy call based on Glass's failure and Apple having a *FAR* better track record than Google at introducing revolutionary tech.
 
rei101 said:
iWatch...

it will be like a obvious step, sounds sort of boring. It will be like a Bluetooth peripheral. Nothing extraordinary.
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Yeah, sounds boring like "iPod." Nothing extraordinary, like "Air."

Apple's fashionably late when it knows it's gonna have the gold standard product.
 
e.ford said:
Does anyone else not care at all about an "iWatch?"
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Those who are extremely narrow-minded as to this that device is just a watch probably won't care too much. The rest do, and a lot.

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MacOG728893 said:
This is typical of people before a new device is released from Apple.

1. Rumor Begins
2. Ideas Start Formulating
3. People Complain or are Skeptical
4. Apple Releases Product, Introduces "Things so obvious" - Markets the Hell out of it
5. Everyone buys it - Everyones Happy

Then we repeat this pattern over and over again until the end of mankind ;)
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Indeed. And suddenly those saying "meh", "apple is doomed" bla bla bla realise how slow they were...
 
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