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Apple Reportedly Begins Filing for 'iWatch' Trademarks

D.T. said:
Totally agree on the aesthetics, this is really pushing into the "fashion" area of personal products. I could see a really beautiful design with a stainless outer band, maybe white or black options for the face (like current devices), but people _love_ to customize, so if I were Apple, I'd definitely make sure the design was "friendly" to cases/covers.

Build in mount points, or even make the product out of the box be modular ... heck, I could even see it coming in a box, on one side is the core electronics/face, the other side the bezel/case, band in the front. Apple offers colored (anodized) aluminum bezels/cases, and it opens up a whole 3rd party market.
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Totally with you exception being the case. I don't want an old school Swatch with interchangeable faces, I want a nice watch. I won't be putting various silicon faces on the watch.

I do wonder if any watch that post-dates Apple's creation will fall victim to Apple's love for testing patent law (though patent law sounds like an oxymoron to me now).
 
CalebLevArn said:
Watches just aren't classy anymore.
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Apparently you are classy anymore. I never go out without a nice watch on - whether it is my iPod Nano Watch, my Bulova, or one of my cheaper watches. Why do I do this? For the same reason I make sure I wear nice clothing and have my hair done nicely - to look good (and classy)! :p
 
jessica. said:
Totally with you exception being the case. I don't want an old school Swatch with interchangeable faces, I want a nice watch. I won't be putting various silicon faces on the watch.
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It would have to be done where the case is extremely integrated into the design. Totally agree, I wouldn't want something made out of plastic just snapped onto a nicely designed watch, I'm talking where the electronic core is totally bare and it drops into a chassis (also the connection point for the band). There's definitely a way to do this where it looks like a seamless, single piece of construction, but still allows some modularity. :cool:
 
The iWatch could be released later this year, but there needs to be time for developers to create apps for such a product.

Maybe WWDC will include... an Apple TV app market and the iWatch?

A whole new world truly is developing...

"Siri, set a reminder for Monday to buy some depends. I could possibly brown out my pants during the Keynote for WWDC."
 
CalebLevArn said:
Watches just aren't classy anymore.
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Oh yeah, someone asks the time its much classier to root around in your pocket, bag or purse to find your cell phone and get the time and tell them rather then looking at your wrist. Plus all those places where you can't use a wristwatch but its convenient to use a cellphone like the pool, on an airplane, in a meeting, oh wait a watch is better there too. Yeah, I'm going with having to disagree with your original statement and also vote for it as post of the year.
 
The odd colored "5S" SIM trays are starting to make more sense.

Matching iPhones and iWatches. Gotta have traditional jewelry colors for the iWatch to be adopted by adults.
 
Tigger11 said:
Oh yeah, someone asks the time its much classier to root around in your pocket, bag or purse to find your cell phone and get the time and tell them rather then looking at your wrist.
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Exactly!

My wristwatch tells me the time, date and day of the week. It's much easier to glance at my watch the dozens of times a day I do, than fumble in my pocket for my phone.

If your phone is CONSTANTLY out twittering, texting or facebooking, like some teenagers, they don't get this. But for normal people, a watch is much more convenient.

I can imagine 10 years from now when everyone is used to smart phone functionality on their wrist, we'll watch old 2013 era movies, and laugh at why people put pieces of plastic in their pockets which can break when they drop them.
 
In other news, Samsung has trademarked sWatch which they've meant to do "for so long" but only now got around to :D

Jokes aside, should be exciting. Right now I don't think I'd be interested in a watch based on the rumors but that might change once I see it.
 
monaarts said:
A few years ago people would have said "I don't understand why I would want a smart phone when I have a laptop sitting on my desk that does the same things better and with a bigger screen." ;)
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I still prefer using my macbook for iMessage, internet browsing, games etc then my iphone when I'm at home. Obviously I can't carry my laptop in my pocket so my smartphone is for when I don't have access to my macbook.

I file the iWatch idea the same as an ipad. I nice to have fun gadget not a have to have. I've never bought an ipad since my macbook does what it can and more and isn't locked up by ios. I don't travel a lot and when I do its not that inconvienent to just bring along my macbook.

Not saying an iWatch won't sell. I'm sure like the ipad it will sell very well. I'm just not that interested in buying one with what little is known about it. That being sad there could be some killer iWatch feature that could change my mind. ;)
 
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I know this whole "watches are outdated"/"you won't know til you try" argument has been raging on here for a while, but I wish people would open their minds a little more and view it as Tim Cook explained it at the D11 conference: namely that wearables are an interesting area and that the wrist is a natural place for them. He's not saying "we're making a nice watch, and people will want watches again because it's so great". Wearables. Wrist is natural. He's right.

I don't wear watches and haven't since I was a kid, some 20 years ago, but I think Tim and the rest of the Apple Gang have something there.:)
 
This came up in one of the previous 300 threads about the iWatch, but it would have to have some level of water resistance/proofing. While this might not be something you want to surf or dive in, I'd certainly want to wear it worry free for rain, washing hands, etc.

That's why it should be "port free", work totally over BT (or some kind of WiFi variant), not have any physical buttons, and potentially even use inductive charing of some sort.
 
It's a ruse. Don't fall for it. There will be no iWatch!

And for the record... I own the trademarks for "iLawnMower" and "iBirdBath". Consider yourselves warned.
 
it would be cool if did something like this

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monaarts said:
A few years ago people would have said "I don't understand why I would want a smart phone when I have a laptop sitting on my desk that does the same things better and with a bigger screen." ;)
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I remember the forums when iPhone and iPad came out.

"Why would I want to carry my iPod and iPhone? iPhone is a fail. It only has 4GB and my iPod has 120GB. Why couldn't they bring out a 120GB hard drive iPhone - Apple fail."

Then with iPad:

"Why would I buy an iPad? I already have a MacBook Air. This will never work. Apple fail".
 
I welcome this with open arms. I absolutely love my Pebble and Fuel Band, I think there's a great future in small devices that connect to phones. The Pebble is great but there is so much more it could be doing. Hopefully Apple release an iWatch and we have an iPhone/Android leapfrog-style series of tech advances.
 
Assuming that the feature set is what we've typically thought of such a device (notifications from your phone, Siri, accelerometer for fitness apps, etc), how much would you be willing to pay for a watch? $99? $149? $199?
 
Those who deride and dismiss the idea, may have forgotten who it is that is going to be designing and releasing the "iWatch", and may have forgotten how they thought Apple's previous patent applications "sounded stupid", and now they use them hourly...

Apple are hardly known for many product concept failures.
 
Man, Apple would be suing the **** out of apple right now if apple had come up with this concept in the first place.
 
monaarts said:
A few years ago people would have said "I don't understand why I would want a smart phone when I have a laptop sitting on my desk that does the same things better and with a bigger screen." ;)
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True, but there were a lot more scenarios where you couldn't take/use your laptop, while you could take and use a smartphone.

There are still cases where you could use a watch but not a smartphone, but they seem more rare. Seems like a convenience thing.
 
shurcooL said:
True, but there were a lot more scenarios where you couldn't take/use your laptop, while you could take and use a smartphone.

There are still cases where you could use a watch but not a smartphone, but they seem more rare. Seems like a convenience thing.
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Which is also what people said about Laptops, the iPhone, the iPad, the iPad mini, etc.

:cool:
 
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