Please show us the market research that you did to base your assertions on.
You are right, my analogy is flawed. Better one: you have a TV with controls, still you like to use your remote, because it's convenient.
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You are right, my analogy is flawed. Better one: you have a TV with controls, still you like to use your remote, because it's convenient.
Please post again after you have bought one.
Always amazing how only Apple knows what is really going on, yet based on rumors and speculation unimaginative people are already condemning a product they know nothing concrete about.
The rumors point to a health and fitness device and anybody who knows about product development can see it will take a while before this product is ready.
Exploring currently available technology is only part of the development phases.
Maybe in that process Apple will come up with new ways to charge "it".
In the meantime .......let's wait!
ha! so did I. The ceramic bezel in black and blue (aptly named the "Batman" Rolex).
Aah, wearing it now.. Love it, best watch I own. I also have a Breitling Cosmonaute and a Superocean Chrono.
I'm not disagreeing with the concept of a fantastical device that could enable the wearer to do many great things. However there isn't much you can do with current technology that would allow a watch to be much more than a peripheral. There is not a market for it yet.
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And yet many people are increasingly dumping their watches because they have another handy device that can tell time and do so much more.
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I agree, a watch form has a limited number of possible functions. In part because the technology simply isn't there yet. That is sorta the point of my post. People want convergence of functions without giving up features.
If it's any comfort, the exact same comments were made here in the thousands before the iPad was announced, and continued well after it was released. Fortunately, Apple is more imaginative than a lot of MR posters.
I hope so. It would be nice to find a new insanely great product category. But if all the rumored watch does is monitor health, it isn't new or exciting.
What watch is that? Casio has had long lasting battery life.
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As for my prediction...
I could see the iWatch being charged every time you sit at your Mac through wireless electricity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html
Something like this perhaps?
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Wireless charging would be good here so you don't have to have a port that could keep it from being waterproof. Then you could just go with a mat or something mounted under a desk or nightstand and you could set your phone and watch down there to charge while you sleep/work.
Sure, I doubt Apple has some secret technology to totally disrupt the market and do what no one has ever done before.
Apple hasn't taken this long to develop a me-too product. They don't do me-too products anyway, and if the history of the company is any guide (and why shouldn't it be?), this product won't be anything like what the rumors say it will be. I also doubt very much that it will be called the "iWatch."
This is misunderstanding the way people misunderstood the iPad at the time.
The reason why the iPad worked was because it WAS a bit iPod Touch, and brought with all the advantages of the large screen size, such as electronic document reading amoung other things. Anyone and everyone who stopped and said, "man this would work better on a bigger screen" instantly understood what the iPad was good for.
The problem is going the other way. What are the super small things that an iPod Touch does that would be done better on a smaller screen OR form factor.
That would be short from status information and maybe a limited style remote control for other devices, like a remote control for a TV.
Weather
Health Feedback
Clock
Calendar (date and alerts, not complex entry or edit)
Limited Address/contacts access
What else can you cut down in screen space and still get use out of.
The types of uses are very limited.
The only way it would be a productive help is if your task revolved around needing quick acces to status level information.
Apple will soon be in the news for all of it's EMF producing products, and not in a good way.
For a company that is supposedly environmentally friendly and forward looking their products have gotten increasingly lax when it comes to exposing users to EMFs.
No way to avoid them altogether obviously but the iPhone is worse than Samsung smartphones and their laptops and computers have gotten worse as well.
For a company that is supposedly environmentally friendly and forward looking their products have gotten increasingly lax when it comes to exposing users to EMFs.
No way to avoid them altogether obviously but the iPhone is worse than Samsung smartphones and their laptops and computers have gotten worse as well.
I understand this is macRUMORS
but while other companies are releasing their watches (samsung, sony, pebble) and making money off them, apple has yet to release a product.
release something already.
I'm frustrated
but while other companies are releasing their watches (samsung, sony, pebble) and making money off them, apple has yet to release a product.
release something already.
I'm frustrated
Again, I really hope you are right. But honestly, of all the products Apple could ship to consumers, the watch form factor offers little space for innovation. Watches at this point are mostly worn as a fashion accessory if worn at all. The screen space is too small to act as an interface, it can't look clunky, and even if Apple can overcome all the constraints posed by form, it still has to offer enough functionality to be worth entering the market. A market that just isn't there.
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You forgot the sarcasm tags but I hear you. I disagree that there is much that can be done with the watch form factor. As I said before, watches are at least partly a fashion accessory. The size of the watch also matters and because of this, there is a considerable limitation on what can be done with it. You are much more likely to see Apple movement in the TV market than see an Apple watch any time soon.
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We are constantly bombarded by cosmic rays and radio magnetic waves. EMF from cell phones is boogeyman hysteria.
Not necessarily. The battery life on my iPhone 5s is still terrible but they released the product anyway. I suspect they will still release the iWatch this year but as with any new Apple product it will evolve and get better over time.
Incorrect.
The Lightning connector is already waterproof by design (and I don't mean with a little rubber cap).
Personally, I think Lightning was designed with the iWatch firmly in mind. Hold the Lightning plug up beside your own wristwatch and tell me it's not a perfect scale.
The popularity of the iPod Nano as a wristwatch, followed by the iPod's redesign into a non-watch format, folloowed by the introduction of the Lightning connector, all seem to me to create a straight line to the upcoming iWatch.
These, among other reasons, suggests to me that an awful lot of people are barking up the wrong tree.
The only way that would work if if they stored a copy of the operating system on a ROM chip. And iOS is too big for that.
I think I still have one of those Casio Telememo watches in a drawer around here somewhere.