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Apple Said to Be Planning Three iWatch Models from 1.6 to 1.8 Inches, Sapphire on High End

Future news from Ming-Chi Kuo

I'll go ahead and save you time by writing the post you'll be publishing in 3-4 weeks:

Apple's new iWatch will see production displays due to a shortage of Sapphire glass. This news comes from a report by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has been a reliable source of information in the past.
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In related news, who is this Ming-Chi Kuo guy? KGI Securities must not be very good at security if their employee leaks information pretty much weekly on here. And if he has such an inside scoop, wouldn't Apple find a way to shut him down? I thought the whole point of security is that news is not supposed to be published regularly.
 

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Apple use to have such a simple product line. Now it's being cluttered up with different versions of the same device.
 
bushido said:
Can you imagine wearing one of these during a business meeting? embarrassing
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The times "they are a'changing". Mid-level executives and even a few CEOs are reported to wear their fitbits and fuelbands to golf courses and business meetings. A much more expensive looking quantified self fitness device would appeal to these types.
 
firewood said:
The times "they are a'changing". Mid-level executives and even a few CEOs are reported to wear their fitbits and fuelbands to golf courses and business meetings. A much more expensive looking quantified self fitness device would appeal to these types.
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I know many surgeons who wear their FuelBand to surgery (next to their Rolex).
 
I feel like the screen size is probably a lot less important than people think. I feel like Apple is going to have to come up with an entirely new way of controlling the device - not touch, because that's seems awkward for a small screen that will probably shake around a lot, and not voice, because that makes everyone around you give you sideways glances. What else might work is beyond me, but those are my feelings.

Maybe it won't even primarily be a device that accepts input. Maybe it'll rely on external devices, like bluetooth beacons, Macs, iPhones, or iPads for input, and it'll just provide output...

Before you jump all over how that makes the screen size important, I have to say: not really. UI elements could be clearly understood if they were a lot smaller than they are on the iPhone, but they aren't made smaller because then you couldn't touch them. The iPhone uses a lot of size 17 font so that things are large enough to touch, but if the screen was just used as an output device, size 11 font would be fine, which only takes up (11/17)^2 as much area on the screen per character - 42%.
 
MacSince1990 said:
There's really no excuse for wearing an expensive watch anymore (everything tells time these days) except for compensating for a small penis.
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Is that anything like having a signature listing all of your Apple gear?:rolleyes:

Expensive watches have never been about telling time just as an expensive smartphone has never been about just making calls. It's about buying what you like. More importantly, expensive is relative to what you can afford.

On topic: Analyst seem to be cycling through rumors just throwing stuff up to keep the perpetual motion machine in motion. I wish they would just throw us all for a loop and announce a rumor of a new mac mini.
 

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I'm really hoping for the high end one to look really classy and be able to accessorise as i like chaning the bands and etc. Wearing it with your jeans then changing it up wearing it with your slacks. Would be amazing. That will be a amazing watch.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Maybe it won't even primarily be a device that accepts input. Maybe it'll rely on external devices, like bluetooth beacons, Macs, iPhones, or iPads for input, and it'll just provide output...
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I'm sure it will have a mic for input, but I've been thinking, it is surely going to be water resistant. Can you have a mic on a water resistant watch?
 
I love this whole “iWatch = iPhone on wrist” about as much as I loved the whole “iPhone = iPod with keypad” thing from last decade. The rumors are fine, I like speculation as much as the next guy. But these mockups are just putting a nasty taste in everyone’s mouth.
 
bushido said:
I would only consider buying one of those iWatches if they look like an actual watch and not like those redic mockups that make it look like an iPod Nano on your wrist.

Can you imagine wearing one of these during a business meeting? embarrassing
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Lol, you could say the same thing about the iPad when it first came out.
 
so sapphire only goes on the most expensive version? great more snobbery. Oh you bought the non sapphire, you must be poor, oh dear.

Be funny if they unveil the iWatchS in sapphire and the iWatchC in plastic
 
MacSince1990 said:
Glad to see you base relatively expensive purchases on previous, relatively expensive purchases that were pretty pointless >_>

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Neat! Tell us more about how much you spend on watches! We're fascinated.

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There's really no excuse for wearing an expensive watch anymore (everything tells time these days) except for compensating for a small penis.
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I'd probably say that too if I couldn't afford a nice watch.
 
If it looks like that, I am not buying it

I am hoping that none of the fanboi concepts that have come out are anywhere near the actual product because if all iWatch is a shrunken iOS interface and you have to sweep past gobs of screens of icons, or try and coax information out of Siri, it will be a failure, period.

Google focused on making Google Now as an excellent platform for a watch. Google understands context and tries to predict the information you may be most interested in at the moment you want to look at Google Now. A "few" flicks of your finger gives you details about everything that might interest you at that moment.

Apple has no idea about context, you either have to find and run an app that will give you the information, look through gobs of notification overload OR you have to yell obscenities at Siri until she finally figures out what you are asking for. This will make for a horrible smartwatch experience. I marvel at how people think iOS is advanced when it is still largely nothing more than a launcher interface. iWatch cannot simply be an app launcher as well.

It would be nice for Apple to surprise everyone with a concept and innovation that wasn't predicted 2 years in advance, but on the other hand I can easily see iWatch 1.0 being nothing more than the smallest iPad where the funnest games you can play is laughing at Siri's responses, hunting for an icon, or flick to close a hundred applications for exercise.
 
DrJohnnyN said:
Excited.
I'm willing to spend $1,000+ on the iWatch.
Would still be my less expensive timepiece.
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The issue there is that less than 1% would be able to afford it. Who wants to put time and effort into a product that no one can buy and a product that you really don’t need? It cost nothing to whip out your iPhone. There has to be a “magic” spot that balances cost vs. features vs. design. Just because some of you doctors, lawyers or posers can pay $500 to $1000 does not mean that a consumer can pay the same. You will create a DOA product if the price is not right.
 
cdmoore74 said:
The issue there is that less than 1% would be able to afford it. Who wants to put time and effort into a product that no one can buy and a product that you really don’t need? It cost nothing to whip out your iPhone. There has to be a “magic” spot that balances cost vs. features vs. design. Just because some of you doctors, lawyers or posers can pay $500 to $1000 does not mean that a consumer can pay the same. You will create a DOA product if the price is not right.
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That makes absolutely no sense. If someone can afford a $500 to $1000 smartphone they can obviously afford a smartwatch of equal cost... and a tablet... and a computer. Judging by the amount of tech sold by Apple and Samsung alone your 1% is a gross underestimation.
 
can someone explain what justifies the price tag of tens of thousands of dollars for a watch and why would anyone buy it?

because all i can think of is that there are a few people in a few social circles who have too much money and the only way to stand out from their friends (or maybe fit in?) is to get something which costs 0.1% of the money they are paying, to make.

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69Mustang said:
That makes absolutely no sense. If someone can afford a $500 to $1000 smartphone they can obviously afford a smartwatch of equal cost... and a tablet... and a computer. Judging by the amount of tech sold by Apple and Samsung alone your 1% is a gross underestimation.
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you are wrong.
 
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