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Apple to Unveil Wearable Device on September 9 Alongside iPhone 6
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It's not an accessory. It will function completely on it's own for the reason which it was made. I know I have to tell you because 95% of people still don't get it. It's being made for biometrics. Will it tell you of notifications from your iPhone? Yes of course.... That's absolutely not why it's being made.
Biosensors are the function of this device. That's what it's for.
Well if that is price for the note 3, I can see the iPhone 6 5.5inch going for the same price.
When did Apple announce a phone and a watch that only worked together?
Oh, wait. That was Samsung's lame concept.
If I can use it as an iPod while running as well I am interested. Otherwise not. Audio would need to come through bt.
Won't look like that but cool. It'll probably have rounded sides. Think of the top and bottom flat, but the sides rounded like these parenthesis ( )
Tell me about it. And that doesn't even include new iPads and whatever else they might have in store... Apple TV, perhaps?
I've said this several times, but Apple really should spread out their product launches. It just seems really silly to try and launch everything at once... from a logistics and sales perspective. People want the latest and greatest and most folks can't afford to buy everything all at once. Spread it out and they'll buy more Apple gear over the course of the year. It also gives people reason to visit Apple stores more often, resulting in more sales.
right....so anyone that makes a wearable watch will be copying Samsung?
Following that logic anyone that releases a smart phone with a home button is copying the IBM Simon :
Except the iWatch will function 100% on it's own for the reason it's being made, which it tracking biometrics. Only really unintelligent people think it will have to have the phone to function.
Will it notify you of texts and phone calls from your iPhone? Of course, a 5 year old moron could think of that. This device is SOOOOO much more than that.
You still have to sync all of that data somewhere. Healthbook on the iPhone is the obvious recipient of that information.
I won't believe until Tim Cook actually shows the device around his wrist! Until then, its all just endless speculation!
I think a lot of people are going to be highly disappointed at whatever Apple announces with regards to a wearable device. The market for this is not nearly that of the iPhone or iPad.
Just don't think an iWatch or whatever it is is going to be earth shattering. It may be useful but not life altering. The hype and expectations are cranked up way too high.
Just don't think an iWatch or whatever it is is going to be earth shattering. It may be useful but not life altering. The hype and expectations are cranked up way too high.
Almost every new Apple device category is announced at least a month before it's launch.
Not at all. The iWatch will have it's own healthbook. Healthbook on your larger screened devices obviously makes sense too. That's why it will sync and there's an app there for the information too.
You may be greatly underestimating the power Apple has to induce impulse purchasing. The anticipation that builds to a new product launch probably far outweighs any fiduciary responsibility. Besides, it's much easier for companies like Apple to delegate the "spreading out" to the consumer via credit.
I likely can't afford anything new from them in the next few months, but you can bet I'll be at least trying to find a way to buy something "magical".
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More like flipflop.com. How many times have we seen this watch go from being announced this year or earlier 2015? Same is true for the 5.5 iPhone.
I cant wait until the September announcement is over with. Then we will have to brave another round of useless rumors for the iPad announcement. By then these useless articles will slow down until next year. I will be commenting less until we have the facts; then we can have intelligent conversation.
Isn't it usually a week prior to the event?
So expect confirmation by next Tuesday.
You have literally zero knowledge as to the market of this, and no one else does either frankly. Just because you aren't imaginative, creative, or inventive, doesn't mean others aren't, and don't know how to change the world. This device is for biometric tracking, and if it has enough sensors and the accuracy is there, it is the start of something that will definitely change the world.
You apparently don't know that in the future there will be a lot of tech devoted to preventing disease, which is far better in every way than treating disease. This is the start, if done right.
If you look at the current wearables on the market today, the technology you're describing is simply not small enough to fit into something of reasonable size.
Using the Nike FuelBand as a measuring stick, how do you propose to add up to 10 additional sensors, an LCD display, a CPU capable of processing the data, and a battery to power it all in a device that is sized in a way sufficient enough to make it operate completely autonomously?
No one is arguing that the device won't be capable, but it will need the iPhone's processing power to make sense of all of the data that the sensors are collecting. Otherwise you may as well just duct tape an iPhone to your wrist.
at first this seems unlikely,
but the event is less than 2 weeks away.
Strange that someone would make something up this close to the event, if they are going to be proven wrong in just a couple days they would look pretty dumb.
So that leaves me to think that this is not made up, which means it is actual reliable information.
This is quite unexpected but exciting!
but the event is less than 2 weeks away.
Strange that someone would make something up this close to the event, if they are going to be proven wrong in just a couple days they would look pretty dumb.
So that leaves me to think that this is not made up, which means it is actual reliable information.
This is quite unexpected but exciting!
I think there's one significant factor running against "watch" - that timepiece is going to be one of its least important functions. "I don't need another watch," is a likely response. It's sorta like if iPhone had been called iPocketWatch. Yeah, so what if it can tell time?
That's a substantial part of the problem with "Google Glass." It comes right up against, "I don't want to wear glasses." The first response to a product name should not be a negative. It's far better to suggest what it enables, or to stake out a new brand identity altogether - "Announcing, Apple's all-new Dinglehopper!"
I have no good ideas of my own. Something like "iHealth" no doubt fails to mention many of its capabilities. "iPay" (for possible payment system usage) is just as limiting.
"iBand" has been circulating, and it certainly avoids the aforementioned shortcomings, but it says little else. "Band" itself may be limiting, if it can be worn in other ways - pendant, on/in-ear, sub-cutaneous implant.... Of course, "Macintosh" says little, other than that it's a variety of apple/Apple....
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