These mockups are so damn ugly that if you gave me a wrist-slap version, I just might buy one.
Also, +1 for the Pip-Boy reference!
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Apple's Rumored iWatch as an 'Even More Personal Personal Computer'
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That mockup is really ugly. I've owned at least several dozen Apple devices over the years but I would never buy that.
But why does it have to be curved glass? What's wrong with a flat face? Curving the face just makes it harder to interact with IMO (for example, try a vertical swipe gesture), and probably brings all sorts of other manufacturing and usability headaches.
Fortunately this is probably all made up B.S. just like most Apple rumors and either won't exist or will be very different from these ill-conceived concepts. I hope.
But why does it have to be curved glass? What's wrong with a flat face? Curving the face just makes it harder to interact with IMO (for example, try a vertical swipe gesture), and probably brings all sorts of other manufacturing and usability headaches.
Fortunately this is probably all made up B.S. just like most Apple rumors and either won't exist or will be very different from these ill-conceived concepts. I hope.
It's the wrist, stupid!
I dont wear watches. So I ask myself Why would I strap one on? My response, to misquote the political slogan: Its all about the wrist, stupid. Apparently sensors on the wrist can deliver significant medical and exercise information. If an Apple iWrist can provide me with essential biometrical info, I might have to wear it. And its not hard to see ahead, in the next five to ten years, that this info link might become a critical health and insurance function. Add in the currently available emergency alerts on it for disabled and old folks. Sure, include a localized Siri and good stuff like that. Apple doesnt do watches. But Apple loves the challenge of small and simple gear. And it loves disruption. Nobody does them better. At $200 it will sell a billiard.
I dont wear watches. So I ask myself Why would I strap one on? My response, to misquote the political slogan: Its all about the wrist, stupid. Apparently sensors on the wrist can deliver significant medical and exercise information. If an Apple iWrist can provide me with essential biometrical info, I might have to wear it. And its not hard to see ahead, in the next five to ten years, that this info link might become a critical health and insurance function. Add in the currently available emergency alerts on it for disabled and old folks. Sure, include a localized Siri and good stuff like that. Apple doesnt do watches. But Apple loves the challenge of small and simple gear. And it loves disruption. Nobody does them better. At $200 it will sell a billiard.
How is anything Jean-Louis Gassée has to say still relevant?
Those mock-ups are Busch league at best ...
Having said all of that - I am sure an iWatch is somewhere in the design center ... will we ever see it? Who knows... I do think that this is a space that Apple could enter and improve on. I think it would also fit nicely into Apple Ecosystem(s). I would give it s 75% chance of happening.
Those mock-ups are Busch league at best ...
Having said all of that - I am sure an iWatch is somewhere in the design center ... will we ever see it? Who knows... I do think that this is a space that Apple could enter and improve on. I think it would also fit nicely into Apple Ecosystem(s). I would give it s 75% chance of happening.
So I could either:
A) hit a button, say 'Read message' and listen to Siri read the message (on the headphones I'd have to be wearing at the time)
B) I could pull my phone out of my pocket, possibly need to unlock it and navigate to the message or mail
C) I could take a quick glance at my watch.
Which one is less obtrusive at the dinner table or in the middle of a business meeting?
The argument is that it is an accessory. I don't need big ass headphones, but apparently a lot of people do. Let the free market determine whether it is a relevant product or not. A ton of people put money down on a pebble watch a year before it was available.
It addresses the fact that phones are getting bigger. Every one I know that has a galaxy note keeps it in their briefcase or bag. Its not convenient to pull it out just to see that your wife texted she will be 10 minutes late to dinner.
As far as the social status of a watch, I agree. However, look at how many people that won't put a cover on an iPhone or iPad because they don't want to cover the logo. A $300 Apple watch may be the next big thing.
To all the haters out there that say this product isnt for them - Havent you ever been in a situation where you wanted to look at your phone but you couldnt? Maybe your at work and your not suppose to be on it or something like that. Or even have it vibrate on your wrist as an alarm? Id rather have that then my ringtone going off every morning. Its a lot easier to look at your watch and pretend your checking the time than digging into your pocket to see who or what is messaging you. Lots of different possibilities here.
Those mock ups are pretty bad but Im definately all for the iwatch. Bring it on.
Those mock ups are pretty bad but Im definately all for the iwatch. Bring it on.
Can't be bothered.
And yes to the above post, many work places ban you from using mobile phones, and especially if they have cameras on them.
And yes to the above post, many work places ban you from using mobile phones, and especially if they have cameras on them.
I don't really see what paradigm shift an iWatch could possibly bring about, unless you consider making something so small as to be unusable to be useful.
So by it's nature, it can't be much more than a jumped up nano - or a dumbed down iPhone, on a strap.
iGlasses on the other hand... now they have real possibilities.
So by it's nature, it can't be much more than a jumped up nano - or a dumbed down iPhone, on a strap.
iGlasses on the other hand... now they have real possibilities.
Anybody else think the watch is going to be a big ole flop?? I honestly can't see an overwhelming need for a Dick Tracy kind of gadget
It almost seems like the situation Apple got themselves into before Steve came back and streamlined their products. Just too many product lines.
It almost seems like the situation Apple got themselves into before Steve came back and streamlined their products. Just too many product lines.
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What I would primarily like to see in an iWatch, would be communication possibilities, receiving phone calls and messages with it, that is then shown/answered in my iPod, having wifi access via it to the iPad/iPod, dual or even tri sim card capacity would be perfect. Caller ID, and SMS messages could be shown in the watch display. The iPod 5 is a magnificent product, if you could use it as dual sim card phone it would just be purrfect, the iWatch would be the communication central, and to determine immediately if you want to answer to the caller now, and see the SMS message, and a watch of course...
Well, this product is surely doomed. I'm an Apple fan, and still, this is the first rumored product I've been excited by in years. I've been wrong about the popularity of everything else, so if I like it, it must be destined to fail.
Yet, the potential for all the fun (and dare I say useful) things one could do with a well designed wrist computer is amazing.
I don't know where all you people who say no one wears watches anymore come from, but that's not what I see. I can't believe so many box stores devote so much floor space to watches if no one is buying them.
(But then, reason left this forum long ago!)
Yet, the potential for all the fun (and dare I say useful) things one could do with a well designed wrist computer is amazing.
I don't know where all you people who say no one wears watches anymore come from, but that's not what I see. I can't believe so many box stores devote so much floor space to watches if no one is buying them.
(But then, reason left this forum long ago!)
Has Apple released this design? It is a concept made by someone that doesn't work at Apple. Settle down sheople.
Well, I could just be ranting a bit. Samsung would have to create an iCloud-like linked system that would sync with the iPads and MAc computers. Not going to happen so I see myself staying with Apple products. Still waiting for that "something new and big". Still using a 3GS and haven't seen anything to make me upgrade.
Samsung is definitely more on to it than Microsoft, but I do like the "tiles" thing on their phones "home page" or whatever you call it. Would like something like that in iOS.
Do all of you naysayers not fumble to find and unlock your phone to do something really quick? (change songs, check a message or other notification, set a reminder, call mom, check turn-by-turn progress, etc.)
This isn't a watch. It's a device that makes 2-3 second tasks take 2-3 seconds, not 20-30 seconds. If that's what you don't want, then fine, but I keep getting the impression that a lot of people are assuming this is mainly about telling time or fashion. I mean, of course it has to be attractive -- or no one would want to wear one -- and it will surely tell time.
But it's really about making very fine-grained information tasks possible.
Classic! You could not have illustrated your point better!
This isn't a watch. It's a device that makes 2-3 second tasks take 2-3 seconds, not 20-30 seconds. If that's what you don't want, then fine, but I keep getting the impression that a lot of people are assuming this is mainly about telling time or fashion. I mean, of course it has to be attractive -- or no one would want to wear one -- and it will surely tell time.
But it's really about making very fine-grained information tasks possible.
Classic! You could not have illustrated your point better!
could certainly see this for
Health and fitness use sure...
which removes me from the equation.
Health and fitness use sure...
which removes me from the equation.
I agree, I don't know any grown ups that don't wear watches, but know a few kids that don't that are always asking what the time is.
I'm quite interested in this but don't want to give up my seiko automatic and don't want to start buying a new iWatch every couple years.
