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Apple's 'iWatch' Said to Arrive in Separate 1.7- and 1.3-Inch Display Sizes for Men and Women

The above design is pretty.

I don't know many tech people that wear watches. I know a lot of people more on the 'business' side that wear a comically priced rolex for style purposes.

I can't see the rolex brigade giving up that level of status for an Apple watch.

As a tech person I live my life around computers, tablets and phones. I'm not exactly sure how a watch can add to my technological experience.

Google Glass however, is a step change.

Imagine what Apple could do with their deep level of service, software and hardware integration in a glass-style product. And you know it would look cool too.

I want to look at a menu and have a head-up-display OCR the live image and highlight all wines from New Zealand.

I want to walk hands free looking forward down a street, enjoying the sights and sounds with a little arrow and map hovering in the corner of my vision showing me where the bar is I'm after.

I want to have live news and meeting reminders popping up in the corner of my vision whilst i'm reading the paper or going for a walk.

These are the kinds of things that will add, in a luxurious way, to my life. I can't see any of these things being done 'well' on a watch.
 
portishead said:
The watch has been done. I like Apple, but this is following, not leading.
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Tablets, cell phones and mp3 players were already done before too and yet, Apple is has stayed on top or top 3, leading the way.

"..where's that at, if you want me i'll be in the barn" Joni Mitchell Case of you.
 
MrMichaelJames said:
This will bomb. The only people that would be interested in this would be tech folks and most of them that I know do not wear a watch, we have a smart phone that doubles as our watch. People that DO wear watches still do so for stylish reasons not to get email or texts so they won't buy this either.

A "smart" watch is not practical.
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I should keep this comment for when it transforms people's lives, but I'm not that interested. First of all it's not a watch, it's a wearable device that happens to display time, and give notifications. The real reason they are making it is to track biometrics. As an example of it saving someone's life: elderly person goes into cardiac arrest, the watch instantly sends alerts to family members so they can contact 911, or it sends alerts directly to emergency services. If it accurately tracks blood glucose non-invasively, it will literally be vital to diabetics, but not just them, any smart person trying to lose weight. Moreover it could save diabetics lives, if their blood sugar is getting too low, instantly vibrate, and alert them to raise it.
 
Every time I see a guy with the woman's size watch on I'm gonna ask him for his number. I'm gonna be like, "Hey you got on a woman's watch!" :)
 
portishead said:
The watch has been done. I like Apple, but this is following, not leading.
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No watch has been done successfully! It is all about the battery life and the physical size of the watch! And also at the same time balancing battery life against features and usability!

You are over simplifying something very very complex!
 
Sky Blue said:
i have fairly small wrists, so it's either wear a loose watch or wear a woman's one. lol.
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Indeed, is it too much to ask that the notion of gender be divested from device size and color? I've got no problem with smaller and larger screen sizes, it makes things rather convenient for smaller and larger folks. But I'm a 5'11" woman, and most of the women in my family are my height or taller, so if I get one of these, it's gonna be the larger screen size.
 
I wonder if they'll call it the iPhone Watch and tie it to the iPhone or call it the iWatch and allow it to work with all iOS devices.
 
I hope its going to be full colour unlike the pebble watch .. what year are we in anyways???

I hope it integrates well with the iPhone, basically I would like it to gps my running without carrying the iPhone.. I doubt it but that would be my wish !

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I wonder if they will make the iTie?? a business man would love that just pick up your tie hold it to your ear to talk !! lmao
 
wilhoitm said:
No watch has been done successfully! It is all about the battery life and the physical size of the watch! And also at the same time balancing battery life against features and usability!
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Maybe they could use Kinetic energy to increase the battery life in tandem with a normal battery. I've seen ads for Seiko watches with something similar.
 
watches can be for instance found in the pictures area on macrumors, or on according websites.
this will just be a gadget. thanks, but no thanks. my ilove stops short of this.
 
Roessnakhan said:
Make it look like this and I'll give you all my money.

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I'd buy that based on how it looks, I'd put a metal band on it though. Hopefully easy to use like iOS and touchscreen.
 
Apple firsts....

They removed the floppy before the rest of the industry and they removed the CD/DVD before the rest of the industry :)

bbeagle said:
Name one thing Apple has EVER done in their history that is not 'following'.

I don't understand what you're saying. Apple always takes something existing and makes the best product in that category.
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bbeagle said:
A clock, to me, tells me the relationship of 'how much time is left'. When I see the analog clock up above, I see - good - about 9:00, a good amount of time to get a lot done until lunch - about 1/4 of the clock remaining until it hits the top.

When I see the digital clock above, I'm now adding numbers - 8:57 is 3 minutes until 9:00, now that's 3 hours until 12:00 lunch time, okay, that's a good amount of time. It's just not the same type of thing as analog.
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This is an excellent point. I wear an analog watch, and it's not going to change-even for an iWatch. The positioning of clock hands allows me to quickly reference how much "time is left" at a glance. It may seem ridiculous at first, but the more I think about it, the more I agree.

Less is more, perhaps. :apple:
 
i rly hope it isnt separate for men and women i mean a good design works for either

what would the mens version be more rugged? and therefore worse i bet
just like everything else 'men version' is like mens shampoo or mens soaps, its the same **** with a macho fragrance and a black package mary mother of god!
its done to attract insecure men to buy and not feel "gay" bah humbug
 
CalWizrd said:
Interesting idea.

I wear a Daytona (I'm male), and there is no way I would replace it with a "smartwatch". However, I'm also an Apple fanatic, and I'm sure I'm going to want an iWatch when they make one available. I have seriously thought about the "both wrists" solution that you mention.

I'll just have to wait and see how strong the attraction to another Apple gadget is when it becomes available.
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Please don't do this.:eek: Late 80's early 90's Swatch had the same fad going. It wasn't pretty. Like you I couldn't replace my daily driver (Movado SE Pilot) with a smartwatch.
 
abhishake said:
That's like saying back in the day, "The MP3 has already been done. I like Apple, but the iPod is following, not leading....."

Same could be said about the phone, the tablet, and now with the watch (and in the future TV).
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That's not the same thing, there was room for a mp3 device, tablet, and maybe a TV, but I don't see much future for a watch.
 
Who could possibly want the smaller version? That's just for girls! Oh, wait.... Maybe everybody trolling the Mini threads will come over here with those stupid comments.

I love the option of a smaller watch. Hope Apple (and Apple sites) doesn't go with this outmoded form of branding.
 
HenryDJP said:
Exactly, and the MP3 player has been done and the Cell Phone has been done and the Tablet has been done.....yet Apple still ended up being the leader in all of them. By your logic there's no way Apple could bring back to popularity a breed that's been "Done". ;)
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You guys keep repeating the same thing, but Cell phones are a huge need and they sucked before Apple. Tablets didn't really exist and Apple did a good job with it. There's little reason for a watch. I'm sure Apple will sell a lot, but it will die down, and not be as successful as some of their previous products.
 
o0smoothies0o said:
I should keep this comment for when it transforms people's lives, but I'm not that interested. First of all it's not a watch, it's a wearable device that happens to display time, and give notifications. The real reason they are making it is to track biometrics. As an example of it saving someone's life: elderly person goes into cardiac arrest, the watch instantly sends alerts to family members so they can contact 911, or it sends alerts directly to emergency services. If it accurately tracks blood glucose non-invasively, it will literally be vital to diabetics, but not just them, any smart person trying to lose weight. Moreover it could save diabetics lives, if their blood sugar is getting too low, instantly vibrate, and alert them to raise it.
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You do know that old people have troubles even with using iPhone, or even those really really easy phones made especially for elderly people? Now how will they be able to use something that they can even hardly see :)

Besides, 60+ isnt the target audience that apple wants to sell its products to.
 
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