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Apple Announces Apple Watch, Available in Early 2015 From $349
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I don't believe Jobs would have approved this. I think this is majorly a post Jobs initiative.
Correct. But if you want everything to work on your watch you have to carry around your phone. That 2 devices.
Motorola has no reason to believe that they will sell even the number of watches Apple will display in stores. They only need a small number of functional displays.
People said the same of Martin Luther or Mandela. But they changed the world.
I carry around an iPad in my bag and an iPhone 1 on my belt (via a case with a clip.) If I could only have one device on me I so would. But neither can be a tablet and take calls at the same time. And I'm not wiling to move to a phablet to do both in the one device (do poorly mind you).
People have 2 options at the moment.
- The best of both worlds, ie a tablet and a phone.
- A compromise device that tries to do both but at a compromised quality.
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I am not speaking for Steve Jobs. I am just repeating what he said himself so many times, including in so many keynotes. I am saying I agree with Jobs, that's all.
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Ironic I agree but Jobs still had it right.
But this does not mean all multiple use devices are great. You have to make sure you don't compromise on any features.
Good point.
I will buy and return at least 17 units if the light bleed isn't entirely symmetrical when showing a black screen on a fully cranked backlight in a dark room.
Not everyone is going to buy one. Not everyone can afford one. Apple will still sell millions to tens of millions in 2015, likely creating a new billion dollar plus product category.
It doesn't matter whatwould have pulled out their butt today, many would complain about it here. I, for one, will welcome the smaller size watch and a nice iPhone 6+ for my purse. It seems leaps and bounds ahead of Samsung's offering and they actually made a watch sized for women too
It's actually funny to see this comment, because one of my thoughts after seeing the design was "That watch appears extremely feminine". I was feeling like the kid in The emperor's new clothes story and wondering how no one sees what I see. It looks like something women would love to wear "to go with their purse"
Dear Apple,
This is how you should charge the
WiTricity wireless charging
I want to go to sleep, and the resonant magnetic charger on my bed-side table charges the watch on my wrist while I sleep. Of course the same charger can be simultaneously charging my iPhone 7, iPad Air 2/3 and MacBook without me having to remember to plug them in.
...now get to work.
You gonna have four and five eyed babies
Never said excruciating...I do it dozens of times a day. It is annoying. In the same way that pushing and extra button to launch an app a dozen times a day becomes annoying...or even more specifically, in the same way that NOT having to push an extra button dozens of times a day becomes refreshing. Its the type of usability that makes Apple products extraordinary.
Not only do I have to remove the phone, I have to put it back in my pocket once I am in the car. Most of the time, I lay it on the seat. Then I have to remember to pick it up. With the
Watch, I'll just be able to get into the car. Maybe, I'll have to lift my arm to my face...maybe not.This type of added simplicity is exactly the same as what we will get from
Pay. No need to pull out a card from my wallet, no need to have to put the card back in the wallet. No chance of leaving the card on the counter.Actually, I hope to be able to respond using Siri, handsfree, if I am in my car...driving...on the same road as your daughter.
If this watch, improves my workflow, it is a good investment. If it makes me have to think about my tech less during the day, it is a good investment. If it helps me manage my health in a way I am not doing right now, it is a good investment. If it brings me even a quarter of the benefits that my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro do, it is an investment worth hyping.
Apple realized early on this is not just a tech item but a wearable accessory., so being able to create a large number of cosmetic looks was always important to the project. This is something one of the oems considered
Apple Announces Apple Watch, Available in Early 2015 From $349
Actually no, the iPod touch does not have GPS in it. Nor do the WiFi only iPads.
Actually no, the iPod touch does not have GPS in it. Nor do the WiFi only iPads.
I'll admit, I wasn't super excited about the Apple Watch as I watched updated presentation screen shots this morning (thx to the big live streaming fail). But tonight I rewatched the presentation on Apple TV and the Watch presentation was FAR better than I thought. I am actually excited now to go try this out in the store. I can definitely see some advantages to not having to reach into the pocket every time to check something on the phone. And I LIKE that metal mesh band or the stainless steel bands.
The one thing I'm hoping for is that while the Watch may "require" an iPhone for things like calls or messages, certain things like Health tracking and runs won't can function asynchronously so for example, if running routes can be tracked, stored, and later uploaded to the iPhone after you've returned home. It wasn't clear from the presentation whether there was GPS in the Watch or not.
The one thing I'm hoping for is that while the Watch may "require" an iPhone for things like calls or messages, certain things like Health tracking and runs won't can function asynchronously so for example, if running routes can be tracked, stored, and later uploaded to the iPhone after you've returned home. It wasn't clear from the presentation whether there was GPS in the Watch or not.
Behind what design curve lol
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Yeah at least this smartwatch and others have technical reasons for thickness., the rugged, heavy, Hugh end men's watch segment make super thick watches because that is what their customers want.
Personally I prefer a thinner device when looking at watches but there is no denying the high end watch business is dominated by them
Lol you're embarrassing yourself just like those people who bashed the original iPod. Why do you do that?
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I just bothered to put together a direct watch comparison in Adobe Photoshop. Braun vs. Apple Inc. watch.
Oh, what a coincidence again...
Do you think they look similar?
There seems to be two sets of expectations here. People who were hoping for or expecting something that was just like a traditional analog watch think it looks bad. Others, who didn't have that expectation seem to be happy with the design. Surely there are a few exceptions on either side.
There's a third category of people who just like to complain no matter what--their opinion is completely irrelevant.
I think the designers did well with this one. Trying to mimic traditional watches or even conventional form factors doesn't make sense here. There's a certain space age quality to the product, and rightfully so. It's not a traditional watch, it's the watch that somebody in the future would wear--assuming your vision of the future comes from 30 or 40 years ago when you were a kid. That's not a bad thing.
The design team did a really excellent job of marrying the technological vision -----and the aesthetic that goes along with that--to the fashion conscious, everybody has their own tastes reality of a wearable product.
You can't please everybody, that's a reality of all wearable products. This isn't going to appeal to someone who collects $5k+ watches or maybe even people who only like round designs. That's ok, it doesn't have to. Just because some people hate the color blue doesn't mean that clothing companies will stop making blue shirts.
This is not a one-off product for Apple, and it makes a lot of their long-term decisions make a ton of sense. Why are so many Apple stores so big? Well, it takes a lot of floor space to showcase wearable products with multiple styles. There will be more styles of the
Watch, that's inevitable. There will surely be other wearable concepts in the future. The game here is really Apple Pay. More wearables = easier access. Even if Apple only takes a fraction of the total credit card transactions made in the US, at even .25%, the revenue generated will be staggering. Every tech company has wanted to spearhead mobile payments, but Apple is the only one that has a solid enough foundation to actually do it.
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I just bothered to put together a direct watch comparison in Adobe Photoshop. Braun vs. Apple Inc. watch.
Oh, what a coincidence again...
You know those watches looking nothing alike right?
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The moto 360 looks and runs like crap. Making a round face with a very awkward and very not round display was an absolutely a bad decision. Real round watches that are actually round could be had more much less. Add in the out of data hardware and it is a device only Motorola would put there name in.
I would much rather a company focus on making a high quality smartwatch instead of spending all their efforts to create inferior device and sticking a square peg in a round hole.
Once people wipe the jizz from their zipper and step back and look at the moto 360 they will see it for the piece of crap it is. The one upside is it will ultimately kill the demand for round watches.
Samsung Galaxy Gear S. Has sim slot and GPS. Don't need to wait for 10 years unless you want an apple version.
That will never happen. They need to sell you an iPhone to work with the watch.
I could see them selling a cool 8-10 million in 2015 gives them revenues of ~5 billion and profits of ~1.5 billion. I suspect tryst would make them one of the most successful watch makers out there.
In 2010 Swatch was the most successful watch company with 4.97 billion in sales and 700 million in profit
Hermes Paris, which includes seiko, citizen and Casio had sales of 2.1,billion dollars with profits of 410 million dollars.
The LVMH group which owns Tag Heur, dior and other brands saw sales of 1.18 billion dollars and 89 million dollars in profit.
BVLGARIA had sales of 1.32 billion and a loss of 66.9 million.
Movadi had revenues of 378.4 and losses of 11.9 million dollars.
Seems apple is poised to be one of the biggest and most profitable watch companies in the world. If the average ticket was $450, and apple could move 10 million units, they would essentially be one of the very most successful watch makers in the world. Even at half that you are looking at 2.25 billion in revenue and close to a billion I profit., they would be a serious force in the watch business.
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