So, if Apple releases a smart watch will they be copying the market entry, the idea or both?
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So, if Apple releases a smart watch will they be copying the market entry, the idea or both?
Assuming one is cool with the Pebble design (I have no opinion on that) - I think the Pebble and what it does is a great idea. Personally - I'm not sure I would want tons of functionality on a watch. The screen limits the amount of information at any given time and I'd prefer not to have to charge yet another device often.
Of course, that (I) could change over time. But right now the Pebble makes a lot more sense to me as a "smart device" then what people are suggesting might come out of cuppertino or elsewhere.
Yap, because companies are totally silly and they act according to rumors on blogs
I seem to have missed Apple's announcement confirming their development of a smart watch.
It's refreshing to see these rational posts. Personally I too find it difficult to see how any of these companies can copy something from Apple that doesn't exist. Especially when other companies already made these watches years before any iWatch rumors started.
Remember that square iPod nano from a couple years ago? Yeah every Apple Store sold accessories for it so it can be used as a watch.
Same can be said with the Apple TV. They don't keep doing small upgrades on it for no reason. They're preparing for something bigger.
Read between the lines.
Same can be said with the Apple TV. They don't keep doing small upgrades on it for no reason. They're preparing for something bigger.
Read between the lines.
Well technically the first rumors of the current market entry for smart watch is about Apple. So u tell me...
Rationalize it all you want.
Your comment illustrates one of the issues with several posters on this board who see things in black and white. If you say something positive about another company or criticize Apple - you must be a "hater."
Clearly.
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"the current market entry"
LOL
That sounds rather silly. The market already has been entered.
I would offer to help you move that goalpost - but apparently it's light enough you can do it all on your own
Google & Samsung's definition of innovation: COPY APPLE.
do you heard about pebble, sony smart watch , i'm watch.....i'm not so sure that is google or samsung who copy Apple this time....
Well, technically, Sony, Samsung, Motorola or Pebble have had smart watches in the market prior to Apple rumors. So u tell me...
This just in :
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, announced the intoduction of two new wristwatch PCs in 2025 at a closely guarded press event in Los Angeles.
He said the new devices called strap2theWrist were part of a "whole new family of devices" the company is developing.
The devices will run versions of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, a system the company hopes will allow it to make up ground in mobile computing lost to Apple and Google's Android.
"We want to give Windows 8 its own companion hardware innovations in 2025," Ballmer said.
There will be one for each arm, so consumers do not have to move their heads only into one direction and get neck pain.
The package design is already done, but we will have to see what Apple does before we can introduce our solution.
How many people you know that have changed his/her watch in last year? last 2 years? zero? one?
This "Apple have 100 people working on a watch" is just a lame excuse for Samsung and Google to "launche a watch first".
I think this watch rumor is worst than the Apple TV screen.
This "Apple have 100 people working on a watch" is just a lame excuse for Samsung and Google to "launche a watch first".
I think this watch rumor is worst than the Apple TV screen.
The Google Android watch will blow away any locked-down limited function watch that Apple inflicts on the marketplace.
Don't get me wrong - the Apple watch might appeal to Apple's core technophobe customer. But anybody who wants to determine for themselves what the watch will do for them will choose the Android model. Apple is losing market share with its main profit-maker, the iPhone. But they never allow customers to use their electronics the way the customer wants, no matter how small a market niche they fall to.
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I heard a rumor that Google is trying to get Apple to approve Google Now, but that Apple doesn't want it to replace SIRI for all of its users, so it is dragging its feet.
How's that for an original Google rumor?
Don't get me wrong - the Apple watch might appeal to Apple's core technophobe customer. But anybody who wants to determine for themselves what the watch will do for them will choose the Android model. Apple is losing market share with its main profit-maker, the iPhone. But they never allow customers to use their electronics the way the customer wants, no matter how small a market niche they fall to.
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I heard a rumor that Google is trying to get Apple to approve Google Now, but that Apple doesn't want it to replace SIRI for all of its users, so it is dragging its feet.
How's that for an original Google rumor?
Of course they are. And it will be released after Apple does
Or, Google will release it first just to say they were first, but it'll be geeky and useless and consumers will greet it with one big meh.
Then Apple will come out with an iWatch with some indispensable features that everyone wants and the following year, Google's version will look, feel and function a lot like iWatch but sell for 50% less, thanks to Apple's generous R&D subsidy and ads.
I like how you portray the choice. If you are an idiot you choose an iPhone. If you are for freedom and free will you choose Android.
Enough with the propaganda.
A google Watch will be based off of Google Glass. That is going to turn the industry upside down.
Except when Apple released the iPhone, it wasn't the first smartphone out there either. But then almost everyone copied off Apple.
Apple may not make the first smartwatch, but you can be sure that if they make one, people will copy Apple's design and UI, not the previous ones.
yet all the die hard Android users are on Google+ ridiculing Apple's iWatch plans....interesting
I don't see the point of smart watch, I don't think people are interested in a watch that needs to be recharged everyday
Also, what kind of apps could the watch run? Only calendar, clock and music player? or we are going to see a 3.5" watch in the future?
Likely it would be mainly a secondary display for your cellphone. So, for example, you could see which music track was playing, and maybe hit the "next" button, but not much more.
Alerts and displays would appear, likely supplementing iOS's abysmal notifications pane.
It would tell you who is calling via caller ID. It would tell you the temperature (on Google watches, only if you wanted it to, but on Apple watches, you would have no choice in the matter). It would alert you to an incoming SMS, but the text of the SMS would require using your gigantic 3.5 inch screen to actually read it.
I wonder how may of the "Smart watch? Dumbest idea ever!" commenters on this thread felt the same way about the iPad mini (or even, going way back, to the original iPod, which had tons of critics).
I'm interested in seeing what Apple, Samsung, and Google eventually come out with. If they don't look useful to me, I'll pass. If they do, I'll consider the best one that fits my needs, regardless of which company it comes from.
I'm interested in seeing what Apple, Samsung, and Google eventually come out with. If they don't look useful to me, I'll pass. If they do, I'll consider the best one that fits my needs, regardless of which company it comes from.
Google & Samsung's definition of innovation: COPY APPLE.
Oh really? Mind showing me Apple's smart watch that Google and Samsung copied?
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I wonder how many of the "Smart watch? Dumbest idea ever!" commenters on this thread will stand in line outside the Apple Store for 4 days to get the first Apple smart watch simply because it has an Apple logo on it.
Probably the same number of apple-haters who were initally like "The tablet, an oversized phone? nah..." and ended up queuing in non-existent lines for a Samsung galaxy tab when it came out.
Except there are many here who are claiming that Samsung and Google are copying Apple on a product that Apple has not even announced. That is all I am sure about at the moment.
Your constant use of the phrase apple-haters is very telling. I think it might be projection. I think it's more about you having hate for others than the ones you're trying to overgeneralize.