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Apple's 'iWatch' Said to Run Full iOS, but Battery Life an Issue in Prototypes

APlotdevice said:
How would you make calls practically on something that small? Dig into your pocket for a headset every time it rings?
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Bluetooth in your ear all the time.

Personally I don't buy these rumors of the full iOS etc. I don't see this as being much more than a display and perhaps Siri trigger. At least not at this point. Apple is notorious for limiting features on round one, even round two, products. First because it makes debugging easier and second, why spend all the R&D on something you don't know folks will buy in droves. That's likely why the first iPad was so dang slow compared to even the 2nd gen, had no cameras and they didn't make a real effort to make it a super usable thickness and weight. To do that would require more testing etc so they waited until they saw the early numbers

I think they are probably working on some kind of glasses as well and the two items will be two forms for the same purpose. Users can pick if they want their alerts on their wrist or their face. The only difference might be that the glasses have some kind of Bluetooth built into the ear pieces and perhaps a camera (that streams into your full device) at some point in development. And perhaps at some point the two could be used together so instead of tapping your glasses you tap your wrist to trigger Siri etc but the display is in the glasses.
 
macnchiefs said:
gotta love the controlled leaks... it's just so obvious when it happens.

Now it remains to be seen whether Apple will actually launch the product this year or did they float the new info out there to try and prop the stock price up a bit.
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Well the stock is down again today so if this is a controlled leak to try and prop it up its not working.
 
charging everyday???

I just have only one device which never failures from working ie. my wrist watch. Dam apple you can't have me this time (I need atleast one reliable device with me).
 
These iWatch stories seem stupid and not Apple product like. Why would you need a watch if you have an iPhone in your pocket? I believe it when I see it. If I see it, I'm sure Apple is really desperate for another "product" to be a hit. iWatch seems silly.
 
JesterJJZ said:
I wish Apple would move the MacPro to the top of their list...:mad:
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ThunderSkunk said:
I just wish they'd put the resources into finishing some of the products they've already started, before racing off to the next thing. Everything that's come out in the last few years seems like a promising but incomplete project.
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Damn skippy. Those 10 folks are getting stretched too thin working on the new Mac Pro, the next iMacs, mac mini, the iPhone 5s, the iPad 5, the retina iPad mini, Mac OS, iOS, the watch, the glasses' the TV set. Not to mention all those lawsuits they are filing
 
paul4339 said:
It may not be for everyone, but also that's assuming that the purpose of iWatch just is a direct replacement for regular watches (to tell time)... which I'm pretty sure telling time not going to be the compelling feature and that it may redefine the category just as smartphones did with cell phones.

Part of the questions are also going to be how it's going to be charged too, and what the 'standby' time is going to be. What is the charging station going to be? Is that the only way to charge it? Is the standby time to keep certain functions available, like telling time, going to be much longer (weeks between charges) than other functions, like active communication (days between charges)?

These are engineering trade-offs that Apple will/may set the pace and expectations to which competition often deliver against.

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i am assuming the charging station will be a "lightning" cable, dock will come for a good chunk of $$ as an additional purchase.

I am still wracking my brains trying to think of what i want my watch to do other than time things, and tell me the time and altitude/depth
 
This whole iwatch thing is honestly the stu[idest idea I've ever heard. The funniest part about it is the fanboys and girls really are exited about this turd of a product. It just shows how pathetic their lives truly are.
 
This whole iwatch thing is honestly the stupidest idea I've ever heard. The funniest part about it is the fanboys and girls really are exited about this turd of a product. It just shows how pathetic their lives truly are.
 
"We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives. I think some companies — maybe even the one that you mention, maybe they decided that they could do everything. We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus — we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products." -TIM COOK QUOTE

How does an iWatch fit into a "few great things"?! I'm sorry but I really hope these watch rumors are a joke. Apple has made printers, cameras, and gaming consoles in the past that were FLOPS because Apple lost focus...I feel like developing a watch is also bad idea.
 
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Winni said:
I will turn 43 this month and I haven't worn a watch in over 30 years. And even as a Science-Fiction fan I cannot come up with a single reason why I would change that in the future... My phone is my watch, "walkman" (a word that only people who were around in the 1980s still understand), ebook reader and mobile web browser.

I could imagine playing with Google's Project Glass, though. Terminator vision for everyone:

"Possible Answers:
Yes/No
... you, ...hole."
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Walkman lol... I owned a few Sony Walkmans, even a CD version and Im not too old, 28.
 
I see that old saying making a comeback with this thing: "I don't know whether to crap or charge my watch."

Seriously... WTF is up with Apple? :eek:
 
I think for this to succeed, the most important thing for Apple to do is to impress with the look of the device. Let's face it, part of the reason Apple products sell well is because they look clean and fashionable. If the iWatch looks like nothing we've seen before (very light curved glass), and comes with some new gimmicky feature (ala Siri), this will sell like hotcakes.
 
M-O said:
that's weird. my imaginary iWatch lasts six weeks on a single charge. bloomberg and the verge got faulty units.
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Damn, my imaginary iWatch only lasts 3-5 hrs between 100% and 30% of a charge, much like my real world iPhone 5 i have to be tethered to a charging point as soon as i finish commuting to work in order to make it home in time to charge over night
 
Sky Blue said:
I remember when this site was about iPhones and iPads, not these kiddy iWatch toys. What has happened to Apple?
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You must have never heard of this thing called the Pebble? There is a very large demand for smart watches, if Apple is working on one it's because of the high demand...
 
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