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Apple's 'iWatch' Said to Arrive in Separate 1.7- and 1.3-Inch Display Sizes for Men and Women
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Have not read a single post from this thread, and I am really not kidding about this or putting the hate on. Love my Apple devices, have many. But nothing is going to say or represent Douchebag more then wearing a Apple Watch. It will make a "Bluetooth Headset" or "White Framed Sunglasses" wear-er look cool. Might be the handiest little gadget ever, but that's just how its going to be. Hate to say it........
Hmmm... I have a Rolex and a Pebble.
I don't like the look of the Pebble that much but it's useful while I await a nicer watch from Apple.
Amen bro (or sis). While the iPod was not the first MP3 player, they revolutionized it. From what I see of the watch, there's little new. Besides, seriously, who wants a watch that gets 10 hours of battery life? My last watch that I lost had a battery that lasted a couple years.
It reminds me of a perhaps NSFW clip of South Park's "vote or die" episode (clip 104398) because it is almost comical to release this type of device.
I would just change the last line of the clip to:
"simply because the fact that the battery doesn't work renders it useless adding a parody slant to the satire."
MP3 player was done too.. and so was tablet and smartphone.. Who remembers those products now?
Seriously what idiot said that white is for girls/women?
White is just too sexy to be ignored by either of genders.Tablets, smartphones, laptops, mp3-players, they all had been done prior to Apple's entrance to the market.
Yeah, who would want to spend a few hundred dollars on a watch with unlimited potential when they could spend thousands of dollars on a device that tells time only.
I Love a nice timepiece (own 6 Seiko watches), but that's a stupid statement.
For those of you who are married AND wear a nice Swiss expensive watch, how are you going to explain to your wifes exactly that it's a great idea to have your Swiss watch on one wrist (Which may have been a gift from your wife), and then it's great to wear an iWatch on the other wrist?
Be interesting to see the response of your wifes... and I bet your wifes would only wear one watch, iWatch or Swiss time piece.
Be interesting to see the response of your wifes... and I bet your wifes would only wear one watch, iWatch or Swiss time piece.
I wouldn't wear both at the same time. Most likely the iWatch would be my daily watch, and my other watches with be for other occasions.
Not really, the consumer tablet market didn't really exist before Apple, all you had was pocket PC's running Windows CE and the like, remember Compaq Ipaq's? Or the legendary Psion Series 5, or the Palm devices. So Apple DID pretty much invent that one. I wouldn't have my lovely 2012 Nexus 7 without the iPad existing.
Smartphones had been done to death though, Apple shook that one up but that's all.
But smart watch's are new too, no real market yet, although everyone and their dog is jumping on the bandwagon and it has NOTHING to do with Apple, they see it as a future growing market where they can make $$$ just like Apple does.
So Apple is not inventing anything here, they ALL are, and it will be interesting to see what the develop.. personally IMO they need to get the pathetic battery life sorted first.
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Sensible answer. Another question, if they made one out of gold or ceramic would you buy it? Or just get the bogo standard plastic model or whatever they make it from.
Statements like this befuddle me.
You have seen *nothing* of the iWatch. You know *nothing* about its battery life. You know *nothing* about what it will or will not revolutionize. No more than you (or any of us) knew anything about the iPhone before its introduction. And yet you treat it as if it's already in your rear-view mirror.
It is certainly possible that the iWatch will be underwhelming, but there is absolutely no way to make any such determination right now.
One footnote: smartphones get much worse battery life than dumbphones. I guess that's why they never took off.
If the watch is clean looking, preferably round face, not square, with a frame that is not plastic. I prefer a metal and glass watch. If it came with a plastic band I would buy it, but I would replace it with a metal band.
These are my current watches. I really don't like the G-shock watches or other plastic watches. Unless it's for a workout.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18288099/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18288117/
Very nice collection. I don't wear a watch but I was given my fathers solid gold Omega, he passed away the other year. Trouble with it though is it's from the 1960's and has NEVER been serviced so is a bit rough, the dial needs replacing or renovating, it also has an automatic movement that needs a new spring and servicing.
I've looked into it and I can take it to Omega but it won't be cheap, still a hell of a lot cheaper then a new Omega!
I like this one, I would be entertained looking at the movement through it's glass back for ages, far more interesting than an iWatch:
I don't quite have the seven thousand six hundred sterling it costs though haha!
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... badly.
By that logic, Mobile phones had been 'done'. Which correct, they had been. Only they were not Smartphones, nor were they Smart at all.
The watch has been done, correct; for many years by pioneering companies with unbelievable mechanical design. The Smartwatch is a different device & certainly not a SamSCUm Galaxy Gear.
It should have a full band IGZO display with a centralised gyroscope so where ever your wrist is - up or down - the display can be calibrated so the display can be viewed from any angle.
Is the tech out there to do that? Dunno.
I love Omega watches, don't have that much cash. Personally I like Omega more than Rolex. That's a nice piece there, I would probably put a metal band on that one too, but of course selection of black metal bands is not as abundant. I like the "gun metal" color for a watch as well.
I find it hilarious that you think this!
Were they following with iPad because tablets had been done before??
No. Because it had never been done correctly or gained any kind of traction.
So..... in your opinion- who has already done the watch correctly & gained traction?
The watch is made from ceramic, first one for Omega and most likely why it's so expensive. But it looks fantastic, I like the old school traditional yet still modern looks of Omega's.
Got'cha, that's probably way it still looks so good. Colored metal seems to wear out more. Does it have a sapphire crystal face?