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Apple's 'iWatch' Trademarking Spree Also Includes Taiwan and Mexico [Updated]

donutbagel said:
This is something I'm also confused about. Does anyone have the answer? It seems like the thing to do is make "i"-everything and sell the rights to Apple. What if Apple wants to make a home automation system? They have to talk to iHome, the iPod dock company (though iHome is a legitimate corporation with good products).
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You need to have a logical reason for using/trademarking the name other than the fact that you want to sell it to Apple. I believe it's quite similar to the way domain names are registered. If you can't prove you have an intention to actively use the name (domain name) then you have to forfeit ownership.

If anyone legitimately tried to use an "iProduct" name they had best have one hell of a logical reason for it that differentiates themselves from Apple altogether. I also doubt one would be able to trademark the name without sufficient reason/proof. Correct me if I'm wrong here?
 
MikeELL said:
I love how everyone's predicting something that only achieves 'smart' status because of interaction with an iphone. Since when has apple ever made a major product release that was reliant on already having another (hardware) product? I'd guess that if there's any interaction at all it will purely be to allow the iWatch to use (over Bluetooth 4) the cellular/wifi radios of the iPhone. Otherwise I expect it will be an an app-centric device with the screen size of the 6th gen nano.

The number of wrist straps that were produced for that nano probably convinced apple there was a market for that kind of device. They will definitely be going for the high end market so that includes the people that wear rolexes. What is always going to be a problem with a device that small is battery life: What I'd like to see is a screen unit perhaps half the thickness of the 6th gen, with a shell and luxury-style wrist band made out of liquid metal, and inside each segment of the band is one cell of the battery, to the point that the total battery capacity is actually greater than the 6th gen nano. Apple alone has the battery shaping experience and industrial design to pull this off.
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Apple tv
 
Always on display

The main thing that annoys me about smart watches is the fact that they are either LCD (or some variant such as OLED) or e-paper. With LCD watches you need to wake the watch from sleep by pressing a button just to tell the time. With e-paper watches they always display the time but are not as good for interactivity with apps and such.

I would like apple to invent some way of combining an always on display with the benefits of LCD (maybe a hybrid e-paper OLED display or something). This sort of innovation would make me want to buy one.
 
Apple don't hold the iWatch trademark in the UK...

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU007125347
 
This is just to stop others from making a Apple-sound-alike

Apple is just doing this to stop other companies from producing products with the name 'iWatch'. To some uninformed costumers it will sound like something that Apple made. (The other day someone asked me if there really were an iBand on sale from Apple :D) Apple would never market their smart watch as iWatch IMO because it sounds so obvious. We don't have any iPlayers or iTablets because it just doesn't sound good saying it.
 
springsup said:
Then mobile phones happened, and the only reason to keep a watch with you was for nostalgia's sake, or because you were used to it. The younger generation universally ditched watches. It's been spreading though; fewer and fewer people carry watches.
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Not totally correct.

Let's forget we are in plush office, having some lunch at the local cafe or at home in the evening shall we.

There are many MANY times when a watch is far better than a phone for telling the time. Many human activities are unsuitable to either be carrying an expensive phone around or even a phone at all.

If you are into sports, swimming, running, climbing, you don't want to have to get your smartphone out to see the time.

Working in construction, on the roads, building projects etc etc etc

Many time a look on your wrist at your unnoticeable water and shock proof watch is preferable to getting your $800 mobile out your pocket.
 
Looks like this could be coming sooner rather than later. Could be they unveil it alongside the new iPhones in Sept/Oct. Can't wait. :D

Although hang on - we haven't seen any leaked parts as yet so maybe not. :(
 
Of course the iWatch trademark could refer to an actual watch but it could also refer to a television product too. As in "watch" television. This would certainly throw some of the pundits off.
 
Bathplug said:
Common knowledge to skip a first gen apple product.
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Common knowledge? More like urban myth. Gen 1 products are no more problematic than future iterations because every new model is a de facto Gen 1 product. The ext. enclosure might be the same but the guts change.

Take a look at the just released MBA as Exhibit One. Plenty more like that.

The whole avoid the first gen is a carry over from the auto industry from back when a model lasted multiple years & the same parts were used the entire model life.
 
I still don't really see the appeal; while it would certainly be novel for people already interested in smart watches to have one that works well with their existing iOS device, is there really much of a market for smart watches?


A lot of the talk is of a full-blown mobile device in watch form, which seems to me like lunacy as the watch is going to have much more limited battery capacity and a much more limiting screen, and to be honest I don't see much appeal to a badly limited device when you a phone is of a more useful size. Plus the last thing you want is a watch that needs re-charging on a daily basis; it would really need to last a week or so at least (ideally several weeks) otherwise you're just paying a premium for hassle.

That said, I think a watch that can run very lightweight widgets plus Bluetooth might have some use, more as an accessory to another iOS device, e.g - connecting to your iPhone in your pocket or iPad in a backpack in order to display weather info, progress indicated on a pedometer app, maybe even a summary of notifications; mainly so you don't have to get your main device out all the time, but otherwise it would be pretty much a regular, if slightly fancier, digital watch. That kind of thing could have some appeal, but even so it's an accessory rather than anything that's a "must have" on the same kind of scale as a phone or tablet.
 
haravikk said:
I still don't really see the appeal;
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For me, having my watch vibrate when I am leaving the house without my phone (i've forgotten my phone before but never my watch.

On the train or in the car when I get a text, its a pain to try to fish my phone out of my jeans front pocket, being able to see the message from my watch would be great.

My current watch has small digits that are hard to read - low contrast, I'd also love the ability to change the face.

There are times when it would be inappropriate to look at my phone but not my watch.
 
There's a generational divide with watches. Gen X and older usually wear watches, at least some of the time. Gen Y and younger, who have always carried mobile devices of some kind usually do not. What Apple and everyone else who wants to be successful with wearable devices will need to do is convince them why they should want to wear one. Apple's done it before. Until the iPhone most Americans weren't convinced of the value of smartphones. I think a watch is a lot less obtrusive than Google Glass, for instance.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Common knowledge? More like urban myth. Gen 1 products are no more problematic than future iterations because every new model is a de facto Gen 1 product.
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Tell that to people who bought an MBA in 2008 (painfully slow HDD unless you paid a fortune for the SSD option) or an iPad in 2010 (hilariously paltry amount of RAM; the device was hardly usable).
 
KPOM said:
There's a generational divide with watches. Gen X and older usually wear watches, at least some of the time. Gen Y and younger, who have always carried mobile devices of some kind usually do not. What Apple and everyone else who wants to be successful with wearable devices will need to do is convince them why they should want to wear one. Apple's done it before. Until the iPhone most Americans weren't convinced of the value of smartphones. I think a watch is a lot less obtrusive than Google Glass, for instance.
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I'm a gen x and I never owned or wore a watch but I agree would rather wear a watch than a pair of Google glasses. But with google glass you need your phone on you and pay more money each month to the cell companies not comparing the two but hope the watch isn't the same
 
gmanist1000 said:
I hope Apple has something interesting up their sleeves for this one.
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That should be the theme of the launch for this one. Tim comes out on stage and says something about how it's been said that Apple isn't innovative anymore, and than assures everyone that they actually have something amazing up their sleeve- then he holds his arm up and pulls his sleeve back, revealing the iWatch. :cool:
 
Shane1905 said:
Anyone else thought of the possibility that iWatch could be the new Apple TV or related software. It 100% will not be called the iTv so maybe this is the next best thing and it has nothing to do with a smart watch?
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That's a nice bit of lateral thinking.

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gmanist1000 said:
Innovation. I hope Apple has something interesting up their sleeves for this one.
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komodrone said:
Well...looks like...(puts on sunglasses)...we'll have to watch what happens.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
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Don't expect any off the cuff remarks from Tim. He's doubling down on secrecy. :D
 
nikicampos said:
What's the big deal with an iWatch, it's nothing more than the previous iPod Nano that you could buy straps and make it a watch.

Just another device to get notifications.
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Yeah, I agree. What's the big deal with an iPad? It's just a big iPod Touch. What's the big deal with an iPod Touch? It's just an iPhone that can't make calls.

What's the big deal with a MacBook Air? It's just a MacBook Pro 13" but thinner. What's the big deal with an iMac? It's just a Mac built into the monitor.

Just another device to get notifications.

What's the big deal with an iPhone? It's nothing more than a MacBook that you could buy straps for and make it a phone. ;)
 
nikicampos said:
I see trouble with some people... people with Rolex, Tag, Bell and Ross, Patek Philippe watches it could be hard.
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I sincerely hope those people don't give up their watches - it won't be nearly as easy to spot the pretentious morons and t**ts in the world as it is today! :)
 
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