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Apple's Rumored iWatch as an 'Even More Personal Personal Computer'

Mackan said:
As with all Apple products, you should wait for the 3rd generation of the product before you get what you should have gotten in the first place. Just be prepared for the usual money milking and incremental updates, all to make your iWatch obsolete as soon as possible.

We've seen how it all works already.
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LOL I'm thinking the first gen will be marooned like gen one iPad!
 
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Apple are in bed with Nike. So it WILL be sports/fitness orientated. It WILL be waterproof, so hence it will not have a headphone jack(especially with BT4) and it will not have a lightening connector(Apple has been toying with wireless charging for some time).
As far as being a watch and peeps saying I'm not into watches, the only watch thing will be, you wear it on your wrist and oh by the way of course it also tells the time etc etc.
Due to humans current obsession with social networking, camera's, connectivity, mobile devices, information at hand, I believe the iWatch definitely has a market. Really seems like a no brainier to me. It just needs to be done properly. I can almost guarantee Samsung will rush one to the market before Apple get one out, and of course just be jamed with all the tech they can get in there and miss the whole niche.
All just IMO
 
IbisDoc said:
Congratulations. You'll be one of the 68k that pre-orders this, has to recharge it every other day, and keeps telling yourself (and everyone else) that you're a man. My wife tells me that she's keeping her Rolex, as tempting as this "wrist computer" sounds.

I suppose there will be some market for this among the prepubescent, college crowd, those who don't work in professional environments, and computer programmers and software engineers (of course). So maybe Apple will get up to about 78,000.
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First off, whats wrong with charging something when you sleep?

Second, how do you like your crow? Baked? Deep fried? I'm just wondering how you'll prepare it in about a year's time.
 
Carniphage said:
But cramming electronic functions into a watch results in product that does a lot of things worse than existing solutions. It is the netbook of wearable computing.
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It's just a fancier watch that will do a few more things than tell time. I love all the market analysts on the internet.
 
Mackan said:
As with all Apple products, you should wait for the 3rd generation of the product before you get what you should have gotten in the first place. Just be prepared for the usual money milking and incremental updates, all to make your iWatch obsolete as soon as possible.

We've seen how it all works already.
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That's a really poorly informed statement.

I could argue it but it seems there'd be little point.

Customer service reports and sales figures would suggest you're wrong.

The first iPhone and iPad were pretty damned good. I'm happy to buy Apple products because they work, they have exceptional after sales service and they work.

Yep I know I put they work twice cause they really do work.
 
I currently wear a very nice watch with an automatic movement and I like the anachronism of it. Can't see myself every switching out my watch for something like this.
 
Adam22 said:
A lot of ppl are ditching they're regular watch for devices like the Nike+ fuel band but those have their short comings. Just imagine a nano with the clip like IWatch with bendable glass and having the same features as a nike+ fuel band for health and more. Add a camera for fun , sensors , connect to nike running shoes, bluetooth headphones for when u run , has siri and she talks to you with health info while u run etc.and this can be great
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Maybe... I don't know. Even then it sounds like a niche market.
 
HenryDJP said:
Well we as Apple customers can't buy everything the company makes, especially when it's not really something they specialize in. Surely, the "iWatch" can be nothing short of a mini computer and that IS something Apple specializes in but you shouldn't own everything one company makes.

I just bought a Vitamix blender. Should my next blender purchase be one from Apple if they made one? Should I buy my car from Apple if they made one? I'm not even in favor of buying this rumored TV from Apple.

For some things the ecosystem makes perfect sense and I would prefer it that way but a watch? Really? NO. Apple doesn't need my money that badly and I don't need their watch that badly.
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At no point did I say I purchase everything Apple makes. I own three apple products, and an iPhone is not currently one of them. Apple TV, MacBook, iPad. I gave up on the iPhone a while back, so chances are if they did make an iWatch it wouldn't even pertain to me.

All I meant was, there are a lot of people on this forum who seem to think the watch was something their great grandparents used to talk about. Like watches aren't still a relevant, functional thing that some people still wear regularly.
 
Blakjack said:
This is the same ole story with a new topic when Rumors start running of a new apple device:

1. People say how much they hate the idea and will have no use for it
2. Apple confirms the device with an event
3. Some people finally understands the idea, others still hate it and deem it DOA
4. The device goes on sale to the tune of a few million
5. Those who bought it love it, those who didn't, trash it and says sales will begin to decline soon enough.
6. Apples quarter call, reports best quarter ever and the rest of the world, quarter by quarter begins to buy the device and Apple is deemed the most innovative company in history once again.
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Ha ha. I might end up in this group. I can't believe I would easily give up my stylish watch. But I have many Apple devices and I use them all the time. If they make something like this and I end up getting it, well that might be another good example of "The Customer doesn't know what he wants."
 
seems like it might be better for interacting with if the interface were on the inside of your arm.. the palm side..

the mockups might be taking the word 'watch' too literally..
 
That sucks... If they want to stay in the premium market, which they undoubtedly WOULD, they would design a PREMIUM looking watch.

What sort of self-respecting suit would want to wear a baby-G-SHOCK-ish toy like that??!?

Ain't got nuthink against ToyWatch, but what Apple needs is a TAG HEUER kind of watch, not another Swatch watch.

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Mackan said:
As with all Apple products, you should wait for the 3rd generation of the product before you get what you should have gotten in the first place. Just be prepared for the usual money milking and incremental updates, all to make your iWatch obsolete as soon as possible.

We've seen how it all works already.
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Hey, that's what I've been preaching all the time~!!
 
Mystic386 said:
That's a really poorly informed statement.

I could argue it but it seems there'd be little point.

Customer service reports and sales figures would suggest you're wrong.

The first iPhone and iPad were pretty damned good. I'm happy to buy Apple products because they work, they have exceptional after sales service and they work.

Yep I know I put they work twice cause they really do work.
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The first iPhone was good?! You mean the one with a poor-quality camera, no Exchange integration, no native apps (web apps ftw, according to Apple at the time), poor call quality, and sub-par battery life?

I have the iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and iPhone 5...and to be honest, it wasn't until the iPhone 4 was released did Apple truly get it right. Speed, form factor, and dependability finally merged together to provide 1 truly impressive smart phone.
 
This could be good. Bendable glass, des that means the display can wrap all the way aound your wrist? That would let you read a wide line of text f you hold you hand so it faces up.

Also it might be a finally fix the one thing I hate about iPods, the headphone cord. I'd like wireless earbuds but then I also want a screen so I can select what I listen to. A wireless link could solve this.

I hope and assume this will look nice, nothing at all like the ugly drawings above

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xxhatchxx said:
... This concept art is more fitting, simple and purpose driven.http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2013/02/iwatch-design-concept-by-esben-oxholm-1.jpg
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I hope not. My wrist is not perfectly round. A rigid band would never work. It needs to be flexible and fit all different wrists, like a real watch.

Also way have the display only on one little section? It could cover most of the band
 
Real jobs

Buckeyestar said:
Must be nice to have a job where you don't actually work. Any job where you do actual work doesn't allow cellphone use on the job, if you're even allowed to have it on your person.
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Yeah, it is nice. One such job is an app developer - we use our phones all the time all throughout the day. And we do real work... to make the apps that you use... while you're not at your job.
 
PinoyAko said:
I would buy the second version of this iWatch.
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That would be like the iPad 2. Or the iPhone 3G.

Things didn't really get interesting until the 3GS and the iPad 3 with the Retina display.

Rev 3 is usually a turning point these days.
 
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