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Apple to Introduce iWatch in September Suggests Apple Journalist John Gruber [Updated]
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I got really excited until I read the update. Oh well.
If apple don't release a new product category at the iPhone event, the excitement around the October event is going to be insane.
If apple don't release a new product category at the iPhone event, the excitement around the October event is going to be insane.
I'm starting to think that September 9 will be a day filled with disappointments for MacRumors readers..
Even if they release new versions of every product they make, the "iwatch" and a cure for cancer mac rumours would still be disappointed.
I find it strange, all the people saying the Moto360 is thick and ugly. It is no thicker than a standard watch by Citizen, Omega etc. It just doesn't have "arms" where the strap would traditionally attach too.
Also, the black bar at the bottom of the face is the display driver. All LCDs have them. Usually they're around all the edges and is responsible for the bezel that so many of you hate. It is possible to go bezel-less by putting the driver behind the screen, but this increases its thickness.
In order to have an edge to edge circular watch face, the driver had to be put on the bottom. Sure they could have miniaturised it and put it under the display, but that would have increased its cost exponentially.
So, you would have either had a black rim around the watch in its entirety, and thicker watch by maybe 1mm (which since it is already too thick by all your standards, it would've been worse) or have a small section of the bottom face be black.
Which do you choose?
I vote for bottom thanks.
Let's see if Apple do eliminate the bottom driver. If they do, I guarantee you the watch will be double the price of the 360.
Also, the black bar at the bottom of the face is the display driver. All LCDs have them. Usually they're around all the edges and is responsible for the bezel that so many of you hate. It is possible to go bezel-less by putting the driver behind the screen, but this increases its thickness.
In order to have an edge to edge circular watch face, the driver had to be put on the bottom. Sure they could have miniaturised it and put it under the display, but that would have increased its cost exponentially.
So, you would have either had a black rim around the watch in its entirety, and thicker watch by maybe 1mm (which since it is already too thick by all your standards, it would've been worse) or have a small section of the bottom face be black.
Which do you choose?
I vote for bottom thanks.
Let's see if Apple do eliminate the bottom driver. If they do, I guarantee you the watch will be double the price of the 360.
All bloggers are journalists. A blog is a journal published over internet. Journalism doesn't include any form of profession or qualification. Most journalists reporting about Apple know far less about the company than John Gruber. He's among the Top 10 in his field.
I think you may be reading a little too much into the usability of a giant seven.
johnnyturbouk
macrumors 68000
If apple announced the Iwatch along with the iPhone, next month; this will be an ingenious marketing strategy. As a number of rumours have suggested, the Iwatch is principally an iPhone accessory - albeit an extensively integrated and highly functional one, like none other ever released. Furthermore, as aforementioned by others, the iwatch will divert focus away from the fact that the larger 5.5 iPhone may be delayed till December. Thus, the watch and larger iPhone may potentially be released simultaneously, in the run-up to christmas - during peak sales season!
Well santa i have sure been a good-boy this year - i know what i want in my xmas stocking!
If apple announced the Iwatch along with the iPhone, next month; this will be an ingenious marketing strategy. As a number of rumours have suggested, the Iwatch is principally an iPhone accessory - albeit an extensively integrated and highly functional one, like none other ever released. Furthermore, as aforementioned by others, the iwatch will divert focus away from the fact that the larger 5.5 iPhone may be delayed till December. Thus, the watch and larger iPhone may potentially be released simultaneously, in the run-up to christmas - during peak sales season!
Well santa i have sure been a good-boy this year - i know what i want in my xmas stocking!
Given there are a lot more Android phones around the world and Android dominates very heavily in some countries, it would still seem strange to limit it to just working with an iPhone.
Also accepting the fact that, if they did do this, then others will see how it;s made and do their best to emulate the design, which of course they can and will do. Apple will hand them that market on a plate if it won't work with any other product.
Like the iWatch, but prefer Android. Only choice is to buy an iWatch style device, which will happen, from someone else in the future.
You know what, you're absolutely right. I'll be able to download apps to my Iwatch in exactly the same way I can download them to my AppleTV ..... Oh wait.
johnnyturbouk
macrumors 68000
You raised an interesting point, however i do disagree. It would be hard to emulate the entire experience of iOS iPhone + iwatch by 3rd parties/OEM, you may get similar designs and some functional similarities, but never truly the experience apple envisioned (without sounding lie an obsessed fanboi). That being said, perhaps they may make it iPhone exclusive for 6-12 months, and then have greater interface with the iPhones, c.f. android. Then the integration with iCloud, and utilising the watch sensors, and multitude of exclusive features (years of patent trolling
) coupled with exclusive iOS apps, i can really see the iwatch iPhone combo wiring well, and given the R&D and software integration, it may take third parities a long time to emulate this, and in certain instances, trademark and patent infringement may prevent them from does so, unless it is sold in asian or south indian markets.PS Did Samsung not limit their original watch to the note 3 and the newer galaxy phones?
Seriously, nobody is making an iWatch. The technology just isn't there yet. And the alternative wrist thing that isn't a watch, won't be much different from a Nike Fuelband. An accessory, not a stand-alone smart device.
Indicate noting. He stated interest in the wrist as a place for wearable computing. Nothing more. He not even conceded, they were actually working on something. Just looking into it, very interested.
Nothing ever happened from looking at things.
Because there is nothing to be build. It's all a big rumor. It has no foundation in reality.
Why would anyone admit to the public they are making a product that has not yet been announced?
Have you any knowledge about the subject at all? Apple vehemently denied it was making a phone for years.
You can find them in 2006. Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrxlmf6pMlc (scroll to about 5:35 or so).
"Update 10 PM PT: John Gruber has clarified that he made the statement as a joke and that he does not have any information on Apple's release plans: "By the way, I have no idea whether Apple is planning wrist thing for September or October, just making a joke."
MacRumors should stop reporting garbage like this. This is one step above from making up your own rumors. There is no credibility at all. These are not even rumors; there freaking jokes.
Should change the title from MacRumors to MacJokes.
MacRumors should stop reporting garbage like this. This is one step above from making up your own rumors. There is no credibility at all. These are not even rumors; there freaking jokes.
Should change the title from MacRumors to MacJokes.
iphone 6 to be with iwatch
i reckon that the iphone6 will be released just before and the iwatch to be released a few weeks later for money wise as they will get alot of sale for the iphone originally and then they will release the iwatch and say its all connected through the iphone and every thing works seamlessly and they will do a lot of advertising and will get alot more money then bringing both at the same time as their be a hype for the iphone the a hype for the iwatch and also with IOS 8 and OS X Yosemit coming out it will work great. i have OS X Yosemite and its great works well with other products i dont evan have to connect my iphone or ipad to sync or back up and i can do every thing over wi-fi which you couldnt do in mavericks and if iwatch is to have wireless charging thethis would work great no wires nothing all over wi-fi and working seamlessly with IOS 8 and OS X yosmite!
i reckon that the iphone6 will be released just before and the iwatch to be released a few weeks later for money wise as they will get alot of sale for the iphone originally and then they will release the iwatch and say its all connected through the iphone and every thing works seamlessly and they will do a lot of advertising and will get alot more money then bringing both at the same time as their be a hype for the iphone the a hype for the iwatch and also with IOS 8 and OS X Yosemit coming out it will work great. i have OS X Yosemite and its great works well with other products i dont evan have to connect my iphone or ipad to sync or back up and i can do every thing over wi-fi which you couldnt do in mavericks and if iwatch is to have wireless charging thethis would work great no wires nothing all over wi-fi and working seamlessly with IOS 8 and OS X yosmite!
Yes and I think that's misguided also.
Albeit in general I don't know how many iPhone users would in reality buy a Samsung watch!
I accept at 1st these things may be linked to just your own device, but I'd think once you get going, supplies are plentiful and you are perhaps on a mk2 or mk3 version then it's going to feel like you are limiting your market.
Hilarious!
I don't get the joke. Where's the punchline? Perhaps it goes:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Apple.
Apple who?
Cease and desist.
I don't get the joke. Where's the punchline? Perhaps it goes:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Apple.
Apple who?
Cease and desist.
I confident that there will be a One Last thing this time after the iPhone intro because Tom has been slapping his wrist for over a year now and recently with the photoshoot with Dr.Dre was also hiding his wrists (intentionally trying to generate more attention to the product). If he was wearing the prototype of the iwatch during the dr.dre partnership, I am confident its going to come out before the holiday season and thus an extremely busy october schedule. It all adds up, we all know its bound to happen, fine not on sep. 9th but maybe oct 1st?
Who cares!
This has to be the most uninteresting product range Apple has ever worked on.
And I say that as a HUGE Apple fan.
We all have watches already, I just cannot see the point of another one that just connects to an iPhone.
The Galaxy Gear has pretty much shown there is little reason for such a product.
A new iPhone 6 would be welcome, but a watch - got one already.
Why would anyone admit to the public they are not making a product that is already being rumored to be launched? Maybe they don't fell like killing off the rumor just yet. As long as it distracts competition.
Sure. I know the Samsung Galaxy Gear has about one day battery life. And I know engineers at Apple aren't wizards either. So as a conclusion a useful iWatch can not be build with todays technology.
But other people were making phones for years, before Apple entered a well established market. The right analogy would be the iPad, which opened up a fairly new market. But the iPad was bigger than the iPhone and came after it. So there was no technological hurdle to overcome. Still the first iPad prototypes looked like this. An iWatch that fulfills the promise would require wonders in miniaturization. We would have heard about them.
We all knew something of the size of an iTablet could be build, but we were still disappointed because we hoped for something that would work more like a small MacBook Air and less like a big iPod Touch. In hindsight it was the only way to build a computer that small with reasonable battery life. There is a lesson to be learned from this and it says the iWrist (when coming this year) will work more like an iPod Shuffle an less like an iPhone. It won't be a smart device for general-purpose computing, rather a dumb device with some set of fixed features and probably not even a screen.
These kind of limitations make
products work.
That load Gruber, along with every other "pundit" DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING.
He should just shut the hell up stick to writing that garbage blog of his.
"EXCLUSIVE!!!!! APPLE TO RELEASE A NEW iPHONE IN 2015!!!!"
ENOUGH ALREADY with these dopes, FFS .....
He should just shut the hell up stick to writing that garbage blog of his.
"EXCLUSIVE!!!!! APPLE TO RELEASE A NEW iPHONE IN 2015!!!!"
ENOUGH ALREADY with these dopes, FFS .....