You'd have to be pretty dense to expect a GPS pinpoint of your device while also being within the allowable range of bluetooth for it to send such a signal.
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Apple's Upcoming Wearable Device Not Likely to Ship Until Early 2015
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You'd have to be pretty dense to expect a GPS pinpoint of your device while also being within the allowable range of bluetooth for it to send such a signal.
If the wearable is more of an iPhone accessory rather than a stand alone product as claimed, it's perfectly logical for apple to delay release until after the holiday season...this way iPhone sales are fueled by the promise of it's synergy with the "iWatch" instead of the wearable potentially cannibalizing those precious (and limited) holiday dollars.
If the average iPhone buyer can only afford one time holiday spending sufficient to buy or upgrade to a new iPhone, then there isn't cash left in their wallet to fuel massive purchases of the "iWatch" as well.
Release it after the holiday period and you maximize sales of the iPhone because the already announced "iWatch" requires Bluetooth connection to an iPhone, the instal base of iPhone users is thus increased...leading to higher potential sales of the "iWatch" a few months after the holidays when customers disposable income has had a chance to rebuild.
I think this is the problem with announcing the iWatch too soon before it goes on sale. Unlike the Mac Pro, there are too many competitors in the same space, and most if not all of the features of the iWatch will be available in competitors products, possibly at lower price points.
Apple fans should be thanking Samsung for their 'throw it at the wall and see what sticks' approach to new products. Samsung is doing market research for Apple without costing Apple a dime. And like it or not, there are Samsung innovations that end up in Apple products.
They should seriously do this. Every other day the story changes here. I don't even post as much because I feel that I'm wasting my time. I also visit Android sites and thoses rumors/leaks actually turn out to be true. Here their throwing crap at the wall hoping for something to stick.
Even after all the announcements are over with the entire cycle starts over again. I wonder how many countless post were made over Apple TV? Just a waste of time.
I'd say it has less to do with flexibility than with Apple remaining in control of the message. Once a new product enters production, the leaks in the manufacturing supply chain start. At that point, fragmentary information and rumors would define the product instead of Apple.
As some of us have been saying for months now, it should never have been called a "watch" in first place, since no information ever really supported that concept. The more circumspect media sources generally called it "wearable tech," which also happened to be the most specific information we can say came from a source at Apple (Tim Cook). For nearly a year now MR was leading the charge for calling it a watch and treating the name "iWatch" as little less than a certainty. Only in the last week have they backed off.
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4. Discourage consumers from buying competing products during the holiday season.
Called it.
This is how Cook has been doubling down.
It never had anything to do with keeping iPhone supplies on a tight leash. That's a fools errand.
This was about keeping new products under wrap, announcing them before they even go into production and perhaps even making some of these products in Apple controlled factories in the USA.
This is how Cook has been doubling down.
It never had anything to do with keeping iPhone supplies on a tight leash. That's a fools errand.
This was about keeping new products under wrap, announcing them before they even go into production and perhaps even making some of these products in Apple controlled factories in the USA.
If Cook manages to keep the iWatch under wraps all the way up until Sept 9, then it would be a massive achievement. Even with the original iPhone there were design leaks (and if I remember a picture of the front?) weeks before it came out. There has been absolutely nothing concrete as far as the iWatch goes, just speculation.
If ever there was a product that needed to be previewed for later release, this is it. As a biometric tool it needs to work flawlessly and consistantly.
They really do need to have it in the hands of health professionals in beta before they ever meet a customer's wrist. The device really needs to be in the hands of trainers and developers to iron out the kinks before customers. The device really does need an sdk in the hands of developers as early as possible to have as much functionality out of the box when it hits stores.
Delaying the release to check for bugs would be a great move for so many reasons.
They really do need to have it in the hands of health professionals in beta before they ever meet a customer's wrist. The device really needs to be in the hands of trainers and developers to iron out the kinks before customers. The device really does need an sdk in the hands of developers as early as possible to have as much functionality out of the box when it hits stores.
Delaying the release to check for bugs would be a great move for so many reasons.
The whole thing was a marketing ploy. Claim its a secret and then leak details so everyone feels special when they find out these details.
I think the reverse is true. Introducing all their best stuff before the holidays is hurting sales because few people have the funds to buy an iPhone, an iPad and iWatch AND still have money left over to buy presents.
If they space it out, customers won't have to sacrifice one to get another and the likelihood that they'll buy all 3 increases. Also, they dilute their marketing... iPad will get drowned out by the iPhone noise and some may wait to upgrade their iPhone to get the iWatch.
There are other benefits to spacing out their launches including increased foot and online traffic and giving their competitors less breathing room.
Steve Jobs understood this but Tim Cook clearly doesn't and I really don't get this asinine strategy of staying quiet for 9 months and cramming everything into one season.
Apple VR Headset
I think this watch/band thing is going to be OK as an iPhone add on... but I also think Apple is planning to beat Sony and Oculus to the punch with their own VR Headset! Boom! It's a brand new product segment, could be the "TV done right" Steve was always talking about and it's a massive game changer...
I think this watch/band thing is going to be OK as an iPhone add on... but I also think Apple is planning to beat Sony and Oculus to the punch with their own VR Headset! Boom! It's a brand new product segment, could be the "TV done right" Steve was always talking about and it's a massive game changer...
Not really. You are thinking of products already in production. Nobody really knew anything significant about the iPhone or iPad until they were announced because neither was in production yet.
LOL @ not understanding that my point was to discredit the idea that a product doesn't exist because there are no leaks. Also, you don't mention all of the hardware examples I made. iOS 7 was a major redesign and there were no visual leaks. The iPhone had very few visual leaks and the iPad wasn't leaked until the night before launch. The point is that the lack of leaks doesn't prove a thing. If anything, it corroborates this rumor that a device is to be announced and shipped later. Unless a device is in mass production, Apple can keep a secret.
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Actually they haven't. Most of their products are just updates thus no one is really looking for information and the reason why the new products appear to have been 'withheld' until the announcement is that they announced early.
Do we ever just...get there?
I mean....everything is always coming. Its never actually here.
I'm still waiting for half of the API's introduced in iOS 6 to actually be used by developers.
Huge promises, very few real products, stagnation everywhere.
iOS 8's Health Kit and Home Kit.....tiny stepping stones. Needs iWatch to be actually useful. iOS 9 will be out for any 3rd party products begin to take advantage of iOS 8....
The MFI spec is amazing...yet there are no products. Cheap knock off game controllers...and no real titles.
App Store has stagnated big time. Apple's API's with limitless possibilities give way to Flappy Bird clones.
Not liking some of these trends I'm seeing. Rant over.
I mean....everything is always coming. Its never actually here.
I'm still waiting for half of the API's introduced in iOS 6 to actually be used by developers.
Huge promises, very few real products, stagnation everywhere.
iOS 8's Health Kit and Home Kit.....tiny stepping stones. Needs iWatch to be actually useful. iOS 9 will be out for any 3rd party products begin to take advantage of iOS 8....
The MFI spec is amazing...yet there are no products. Cheap knock off game controllers...and no real titles.
App Store has stagnated big time. Apple's API's with limitless possibilities give way to Flappy Bird clones.
Not liking some of these trends I'm seeing. Rant over.