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Apple Working With Swatch for iWatch With Multiple Designs, Price Points?
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I doubt your instincts and your commercial acumen. When Ping was announced there were many that thought it would fail because it offered a slimmed down version of a service provided by others. Social nextworks work because they are social and not becaue they are networks. So brining a network with a narrow social view (music) was always going to be too niche and therefore doomed.
The iWatch on the other hand is not in that category: it intends to expand the scope of a current market, not sit within a niche. If done well it will be the next step in smart technology. For those that wear Rolex, Tag, Patique Philippe, Zenith, etc as status symbols, this will be a hard sell. It's simply not expensive enough.
For those of us not that attached to what we wear on our wrists, it has the potential to open up a whole new suite of connectivety and interactivty.
Will it be to watches what the iPad was to netbooks? Maybe not, but don't be so sure of yourself without reason!
This rumor is BS, Swatch just denied it as well...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/swatch-group-denies-working-apple-113050446.html
What's more likely is that third-party accessory makers (including luxury brands like LVMH or Gucci, Hermes....) will create bracelets and all sorts of other accessories for the iWatch/iTime.
Invidual design is very important for something openly shown in the wrist, not everybody would want to wear the same iWatch (and Apple doesn't want to create hundredes design and color combinations because of inventory issues).
That would make sense especially if Apple adopts a "snap-on" system like for the old iPod nano, ideal for both third parties and Apple.
I can also imagine a licensing system for third parties similar to "Made for iPhone/iPod".
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/swatch-group-denies-working-apple-113050446.html
What's more likely is that third-party accessory makers (including luxury brands like LVMH or Gucci, Hermes....) will create bracelets and all sorts of other accessories for the iWatch/iTime.
Invidual design is very important for something openly shown in the wrist, not everybody would want to wear the same iWatch (and Apple doesn't want to create hundredes design and color combinations because of inventory issues).
That would make sense especially if Apple adopts a "snap-on" system like for the old iPod nano, ideal for both third parties and Apple.
I can also imagine a licensing system for third parties similar to "Made for iPhone/iPod".
http://www.imore.com/swatch-denies-working-apple-iwatch
so like i said Apple is working with the best- Rolex
so like i said Apple is working with the best- Rolex
Yes because Apple has not bought a company which succeeded on convincing most of the people to wear the same very expensive headphones even when they are not using them, near their faces nothing less
The two have nothing to do with one another, using other companies parts and assembly is nothing like having hardware partners design their own products and brand it themselves and use your software.
Swatch isn't "worse" than Rolex, they have high-end brands as well like Omega and Harry Winston etc. Check their huge brand portfolio.
It lamsot doesn't get more high-end than Harry Winston, see their price range.
Imho it doesn't make sense for Apple to partner with any high-end watch brand - accessories and bracelets under a "Made for iWatch" licensing program make more sense as I wrote in an earlier comment.
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Headphones are not worn 24/7. But even in headphones entire collections with different colors are updated on a regular basis to keep them fresh and different...see e.g. Skullcandy:
http://www.skullcandy.com/
I think Apple will offer a snap-on mechanism so that third parties can offer bracelets etc. (as they did for the old iPod nano).
Lol. Movado.
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You cannot get a new Hublot for 2000USD.
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I certainly hope not. I own the Classic Fusion.
Did anyone see the Jimmy Kimmel segment, yesterday, where they pranked people on the street by giving them a cheap plastic/rubber watch (timex, Casio or whatever it was) an tell them it was Apple's new iWatch. Everyone praised it.
That's what this Swatch rumor makes me think of.
That's what this Swatch rumor makes me think of.
If that's it I won't be buying it' I want something like the renderings below Apple is classy not trashy. So many "smart watches" out there I expect something better than those. I've already got a Pebble.
Pedestrian and conservative are not the same thing. Most of what Rolex sells are sport watches: diving, yachting, piloting, etc. The only real exception is their Cellini line. Unlike VC, or some of OP's more esoteric offerings, Rolex rarely offers any complications beyond timing. My point is not that Rolex isn't a good watchmaker, it's that Rolex is probably the most commonplace and affordable luxury watch brand, excepting perhaps Omega, and that's their bread and butter. Ask the average person on the street if they know Vacheron Constantin, Officine Panerai, IWC, or Ulysse Nardin and you'll get a blank stare. Mention Rolex and it's instant recognition, and more than likely you'll get flashed a few fakes for the bargain.
However, you're right that no maker of luxury watches is going to make a smart watch. The whole notion of a non-mechanical watch, no matter how profitable or well-made, is something at which they'll always turn up their collective noses, and I don't blame them.
I don't think you realize how huge the Swatch Group is, they totally don't have to work with Apple and they are cutting off companies outside of the Swatch group to ETA ebauches, balance springs, and other essential mechanical watch components lately.
Edit: whoops I saw Omega uses liquid metal on the planet ocean and thought you weren't aware of the Swatch Group owning Omega, ETA, everything else etc...
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Yep not giving up any of my Speedmaster Professionals or Dark Side of the Moon for any iWatch.
I know I know, I'm a watch collector as I said in other threads before. Rolex means tool-sport watch, the cellini line is a complete failure as everybody knows, you don't buy a Rolex if you want to buy that kind of watch. But don't confuse being tool watches with being vulgar, Rolex is one of the brands with more fanatics (me included), and vintage steel models sold for 400k usd.
Btw my other favourite brands are Panerai, both vendome and prevendome, A Lange und Söhne and Patek as haute horlogerie and the Hublots of Jean Claude Biver as new generation designs.
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Of course the Cellinis are a failure, most dresses watches made by lower tier luxury makers tend to be. When's the last time you saw a Omega DeVille vs a SMP or PO? But I still argue that if any luxury makers were going to dip their toe in the smartwatch market, it would probably be Rolex or Omega because they'd have to trade on the recognition and market penetration to make any money.
Eh, while historically I'd agree, take a look at the YMII or the Skydweller and tell me they aren't vulgar. Even the recent refreshes of the Explorer II and GMT are lackluster. And the models that command those prices always have a cool factor, usually a celebrity association like the McQueen 1655, the Newman 6263 and any of the Bond-era Submariners (especially the 6536 without the crown guards). Yes, there is the occasional variant, like the double-red Sea Dweller, that commands big prices, but they're oddities and few and far between.
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My SMP is my everyday watch and one of my favorites. I know some collectors might dislike the manual-wind Lemania but I love the daily ritual of winding my watch.
I'm not a hater, but I just can't see masses of people wanting one or using one. The ipod, Iphone etc all had a primary function and were always going to sell, perhaps not as well as some initially envisaged, but still these products had potential and had a purpose. I just can't see what people are going to use the iwatch for. It's not practical to plug headphones in, it's probably going to be too fragile for active, sporty people, is it even going to be waterproof? If not that further reduces it's functionality and market. You can't use it effectively as a camera , it won't be able to make calls, you'll still need your Iphone. What is it going to do, that will make people buy it?