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Apple's 'iWatch' to Feature Flexible Display, Wireless Charging
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"It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that problems can be solved without violence". I thank you dear sir. I laughed. I laughed hard.
So, you speak for each and everyone of us? I am currently wearing a watch on my left wrist and an Up band on my right wrist. I'm not alone in this. There is no essential essence of maleness that keeps a person from wearing whatever the hell they want to on either wrist.
Yeah... Who would have predicted parachute pants???
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Don't worry about flaming me via PM; I have a thick skin (and I don't report people unless there's an overt threat)
What the intent of that post was to be pithy, and lambaste news outlets like WSJ and NYT for basing news articles on rumors, and extrapolating that kind of journalism to their other stories.
I expect rumors on Macrumors, but I expect more fact based journalism from WSJ and NYT.
(Actually, I'm curious what the insult was going to be... )
If Apple really do succeed at building a smartwatch with features so delightful that you want to wear it all the time, would people sacrifice the functionality and change the newly found usage habit just to wear an expensive jewellery? Very unlikely.
Like featurephones, the dumb watches will face the disruption if the smartdevice find the right mixture of features and looks. I'm not saying Apple's smartwatch will necessarily have the right formula but if Apple does succeed, the market will become much smaller for all watchmakers because the smartwatch will always occupy your wrist and almost no one will wear two watches. It wouldn't matter how great Rolex is at being a jewelry piece if people find something in a smartwatch they cannot live without.
I'll say it again, I doubt anyone who wears a $10k+ watch will stop wearing it because of an Apple watch. There are people who buy bespoke suits for $5k +, I doubt they'll wear a watch with that suit that 100 million other people have. I doubt they will be worried about monitoring how many steps they took or how many calories they burned 24/7. But that's just me. Rolls Royce didn't go out of business when Honda made the Civic either. The high end watch market is a niche segment. The iWatch will more mainstream than Timex was in it's heyday. Kids will be wearing them in Jr. High. Tens of millions will be sold per year. The first update will come in a year and the original will well on it's way to being outdated. People buy luxury watches to last a lifetime, not a couple of years.
You know what would be TOTALLY awesome???
A watch with nerve sensors in the band, so you could use it for gesture based control of certain devices. Like carrying around a giant multipurpose trackpad that can remotely control iOS devices, Apple TV, and Apple computers via bluetooth.
The technology already exists.
A watch with nerve sensors in the band, so you could use it for gesture based control of certain devices. Like carrying around a giant multipurpose trackpad that can remotely control iOS devices, Apple TV, and Apple computers via bluetooth.
The technology already exists.
I bet the iPhone 6s will get wireless charging. It's like Touch ID. Only the 5s gets it the first year, and in the second year the other devices get it. Can you imagine wireless charging on an iPad?
No.
No it will not.
Lol, can you imagine if that's what they had made that Jony would have EVER bragged to a cohort that Switzerland is in trouble??
No??
I thought not.
Ha. Long ago I half-jokingly proposed that a smartwatch could use electric blankets as their charge source.
Of course, you'd need a version that didn't always heat up
Uh, no. Samsung already used him. Because, you know, it's such an imaginative idea.
I honestly don't believe there is a "failed" go at solar charging. It will be held back for future releases. Got to keep some reasons for updating, thats the apple way.
Same thing was said about the iPod AFTER it's unveiling... You want some good comedy reading? Go find the original iPod announcement thread here on MR. There is some good funny stuff in there....
Edit: here you go. You're welcome
That forum was so entertaining to read! It's funny how little has changed...
What do you mean by "Apple was never going to make a wearable the size that would be required for iPhone-like capabilities"? Do you mean Apple isn't planning to make the iWatch a stand-alone device? I hope they are, because the only way I'm buying this is if it will do mostly everything an iPhone does without buying an iPhone also.
You're actually surprised that Apple users hate on Samsung? I mean, have you seen Samsung's commercials mocking Apple users?
My point is simply that some are convinced that the wearable will have all of the features and functions of an iPhone. The problem with that theory is that it would need to be the size of, well, an iPhone.
Do we really think that Apple has the ability to make an iPhone the size of a watch, but has been holding out on us all this time?
It will be a companion device to an iPhone. Which has the added benefit of selling more iPhones.
This won't check blood pressure through the watch itself. That requires inflation of a cuff, and I don't expect Apple will include a pump in the watch that inflates the strap around the user's arm in order to take a blood pressure. More likely would be that it will receive data from an electronic blood pressure cuff sold by a third party.
Heart rate monitoring is doable through electrodes, possibly even through pulse oximetry.
Heart rate monitoring is doable through electrodes, possibly even through pulse oximetry.
As I repeated several times it's all assuming, if (and only if) Apple and others find that compelling reason to make people want to use the smartwatch all the time. Those with 10k watches will absolutely use a smartwatch instead of the expensive watch, if that killer feature is present. That's the kind of thing Apple needs to achieve with their wearable device.
That's a bad comparison because Civic and Rolls Royce perform the exactly same tasks as vehicles. A truly successful smartwatch will be more than just a watch. These days even a billionaire likely prefers to use a cheap smartphone instead of a diamond encrusted featurephone. That's what Apple will need to do with the smartwatch if it's to become successful.