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Google Launches 'Android Wear' Project for Wearable Devices
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If you are still trying to promote the idea that Google copied iOS you are a fool.
So it's vaporware unless Apple makes one? How daft are you mate?
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/03/moto-360-its-time.html
And an actually product exists. Coming this Summer.
At a cost to us, the consumer. Sure, they're lining their pockets but what are we getting out of it?
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/03/moto-360-its-time.html
A product exists and is being release this summer. Still call it vapor?
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How biased are you? Looks gorgeous. If this was Apple you would be jumping up an down screaming wouldn't you?
And wearable tech is already happening mate. Look into it.
A wrist band is not the way to go with this idea.
Consider a collar fashioned and designed to wear around the neck. A magnetic devise holds an LCD display to the collar, which one will take hold of when the need arises to view information. A spool reels back the display to reattach to the collar. Audio input and output is designed into the collar.
Wearing a dress shirt, the device isn't obvious. Spoken words and Siri-type responses conducted without handling, perhaps.
Perfecting this type of product is better, in my humble opinion.
Consider a collar fashioned and designed to wear around the neck. A magnetic devise holds an LCD display to the collar, which one will take hold of when the need arises to view information. A spool reels back the display to reattach to the collar. Audio input and output is designed into the collar.
Wearing a dress shirt, the device isn't obvious. Spoken words and Siri-type responses conducted without handling, perhaps.
Perfecting this type of product is better, in my humble opinion.
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And your point? The first iPhone wasn't released until months after it was first announced.
Those successful products have been out for years in some cases. Apple even hired one of the creative forces behind the Fuel Band to help with their entry to a very real, existing industry market. Yet accusations of Apple-copying persist...
Here's one I'm waiting for: Roku releases the streaming stick; Google follows with the incredibly successful Chromecast; Amazon follows with their own streaming dongle in April; the next Apple TV is a Chromecast-like dongle (per recent rumors); MacRumors warps time and calls out Roku and Google for copying Apple's design.
It's been well documented from within the Android camp that when Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Google had to go back to the drawing board, because the phone they were preparing to launch just wasn't going to cut it.
Chris DeSalvos reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought Were going to have to start over.
What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties, DeSalvo said. Its just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.
Cell phones BEFORE iPhone.. half screen, half keyboard.. BlackBerry copies.
Cell phones AFTER iPhone.. rectangular multi-touch screens.
But I suppose that's just coincidence.
Now we have Google and Samsung scrambling to be first to market with wearables.
A funny thing happens when you scramble. You end up with crap.
Congrats to.....Motorola?!
Props to Motorola for being the first to at least tease a connected watch that people will actually be proud to wear...unless its a buggy pile of crap, that is. From a aesthetic pov, its worlds better than anything else that's been teased or released by samsung or any other manufacturer thus far.
Props to Motorola for being the first to at least tease a connected watch that people will actually be proud to wear...unless its a buggy pile of crap, that is. From a aesthetic pov, its worlds better than anything else that's been teased or released by samsung or any other manufacturer thus far.
It is vapor. There is nothing threatening Apple about this launch that we know of yet. I can go pickup a stone out of the dirt as my new product and put up a press conference about "launching" a new product.
It's only threatening, if it has great battery life, a great a operating system, and actually does something to change lives and level-up humanity by creating something so compelling that becomes part of your daily routine. A shiny picture of a watch with chamfered edges doesn't do that by itself. A lot of things "demo" well.
I don't know of a single hardware example in recent memory that created a new category designed by Motorola or LG or Asus or any of those other copycat OEMs mentioned here. I would like to take the opportunity and coin the term NOEM (pronounced No EM) to refer to LG and the other companies (non-original equipment manufacturers)
Making insanely great stuff is insanely hard. Making stuff that integrates so well into your life that you couldn't imagine your new world without it, is maddeningly difficult. Any company can launch, but not just anyone can level-up humanity with their launch.
You're supposed to assume it's the future (near/far) where it's commonplace.Why did no one on that bus looked surprised that guy was shouting at his wrist?
Remember how everyone thought it was strange when people would talk to themselves while walking? Now people still notice but they're no longer surprised. Pretty soon people won't even be noticing.
Be well!
Why did no one on that bus looked surprised that guy was shouting at his wrist?
it was a greyhound. They were just glad he was shouting at his wrist, not cutting off peoples heads
GTV is now the Chromecast which is doing amazing. Guess you haven't heard of it. The Nexus Sound ball or Nexus Q was never released for several reasons that I will not go into here. The Nexus phone isn't for the average consumer. It is for developers. And it still sells pretty well. Not as well as a Galaxy S or an HTC device but well enough for who it is targeted to.
The glasses are in the beta phase with the explorer program with developers being able to get them. That is who they are meant for right now. Developers. And you need to look up the definition of vaporware. Google Glass is out there. You can join the explorer program if you have the extra 1500 and get a pair in you hands.
If anyone hasn't innovated in the last 10 years it is Apple. Hate to say it but it is the cold hard truth.
This isn't vaporware. 2 products have been announced. Moto 360 and LG G Watch.
This announcement was for OEMS who want to make smartwatches to be able to and for Developers to have access to the SDK so they can start building apps for it when the actual product launches this summer.
And Apple has announced it's fair share of products and waited months to release them.
This is from Wikipedia about vaporware:
"Vaporware is a term in the computer industry that describes a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually released nor officially cancelled. Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen. The term also generally applies to a product that is announced months or years before its release, and for which public development details are lacking. The word has been applied to a growing range of products including consumer, automobiles, and some stock trading practices. At times, vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to keep customers from switching to competitive products that offer more features."
This looks awesome
This looks awesome and fortunately sets the bar higher than anyone else has yet. I like that it doesn't make the person wearing it look like a phony cyborg. I still have high expectations that Apple will release something and I have high expectations for what they might release.
This looks awesome and fortunately sets the bar higher than anyone else has yet. I like that it doesn't make the person wearing it look like a phony cyborg. I still have high expectations that Apple will release something and I have high expectations for what they might release.
Oh wow you are so daft an insanely biased. Apple hasn't created a new category either. The iPhone didn't create the smartphone. Just made them popular to the mass consumer. The iPad DID NOT create the tablet or for that matter the tablet market. It already existed in a much smaller form. The iPad just popularized it. So nice try.
And how are LG, Asus, and Motorola copycats? Just because they make smartphones and tablets that are nothing like iOS devices with the only similarity being they have touchscreens and run apps which if that's the case I guess BB OS 10 is a copycat as is Windows Phone. You are sadly pathetic.
You would rather have company selling phones and tablets there by having a monopoly and have no innovation.
LG, HTC, Motorola, Google have brought many innovations to the smartphone and tablet world yet you still are a pathetic little person who can't stand them because of stupid reasons that aren't even true.
Actually there were rectangular screened smartphones before the iphone, lots of them. This whole copying thing is the absolutely stupidest thing I hear and when it drivels out of someones mouth makes me cringe at how awful they sound.
But anyway, living in the past works well for some. Seeing how far Android has come it's easy to see how much Google has learned and is willing to invest. I'm extremely excited about a Google smartwatch, that Moto360 is absolutely gorgeous. That Moto360 looks nothing like a "scramble", it looks pretty freakin amazing to me. What excites me more is Motorola's approach to hardware/UI these days. They did stuff with the MotoX that are so incredibly intuitive, stuff that ALL phones should have IMO. Bringing that kind of thinking, thinking that Apple has not done, and Google has but hasn't implemented, will be pretty incredible.
I'm just glad to live in these times, very cool stuff. I'm also very excited to see what Apple brings, I'm sure it will be phenomenal as well. What's nice about not being a fan boy is you are free to pick and choose your hardware without having to be tied down to a single company that could care less about anything but your wallet.
Not any better than all those "concept" videos of rumored iWatches and iPhones.
That is called reacting to the market you fool. Had nothing to do with copying the iPhone. And touchscreens had existed before the iPhone and they were going to be the norm iPhone or not.
You are a biased fool who doesn't understand software development or reacting to the market.
And wearable have been around for a few years now. No one is trying to be first anymore. They are just trying to get it right. Which Google has but you are so biased and believe lies you can't handle it.
And yours is almost the only use case, in which a smartwatch does provide a (somewhat) better experience than a smartphone. But in most other cases it provides only equal, worse or no experience at all. Therefore potential customers will decide that the benefits do not outweigh the costs and won't buy one. Not additionally to the smartphone they already have. Bluetooth headsets also provide a better experience in the case of hands-free calling. But for most people most of the time one-handed calling is equally acceptable and headsets don't provide much benefit over this one task alone. So only very busy business people will trick themselves into believing a headset improves their productivity so much. Smartwatches won't become that giant future market big corporations like Google and Samsung are fighting over normally. If your Pebble works for you, fine. Consider yourself an early adopter, normal people won't buy what you buy.
