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Hands-On First Impressions of the New Apple Watch
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The iphone and ipad revolutionized and or created and improved on devices that we used or were starting to use in our daily lives so much already. I mean the design, and ease of the iphone and the touch screen. The ipad has replaced many people computers for the most part. The Iwatch is an accessory that you need to have an iphone with you at all times that you can't compare it with the iphone or ipad. It just doesn't do anything on its own that is different or better than the iphone.
Steve would only have released this if he was first or it was leaps and bounds ahead of what was out there. This really doesn't have much if anything over the Moto 360, specially in the looks dept. Most people who wear watched these days is for the fashion statement. Steve would have never lowered himself into following the smart watch wave like cattle. If they were not going to be first they could have waited a bit more to see how the competition stacks up and wether or not these things will actually sell.
And do you know why Samsung, Motorola, and Google have smart watches? Because a while back they heard a rumor that Apple was making one...
It's THIS THREAD ALL OVER AGAIN. Apple can't innovate, Apple just builds "me-too" products, too expensive, gimmicky, etc etc-- except back then it was all Steve Jobs' fault...
Can you prove that they weren't working on a watch before apple was. That they heard that apple was creating one and had a meeting and panicked and screamed that they had to get a watch out before apple did. All this sounds like is the excuse people use if they can't say that (fill in the blank) just copied what apple did.
First of all apple's width looks huge and chunky compared to 360.
Notice all the watch pictures you see is of the mini. not the full or bigger size.
I have yet to see actual footage of the regular size. And there's a reason for that.
They are hiding it, just like they are hiding the battery life. Disgusting.
Its huge and alot clunkier than 360. huge is an understatement
meanwhile 360 looks good when worn even from the side:
look at it being displayed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA4vs-g_pq8
I'm sorry but im not wearing this toy.
I hear this all the time - "oh the Ipod 1G was dismissed as a gimmick and look at it now" - which idiots dismissed it as a gimmick? Portable music players had been around for 25 years when the 1G Ipod first came out, so it wasn't a gimmicky idea and there was a market for it, additionally there were no credible competitors to the 1G Ipod, all the other mp3 players of that era were complete junk. The few that weren't had unusable software (Sony). Again with the Ipad - there was a market for tablets, this was identified years ago and again with the competitors, no credible ones. This is being dismissed for valid reasons, putting aside the lack of functionality, it's freakin ugly, plus its fragile. It's not even waterproof! I'm not saying smart watches won't end up being worn by the masses at some point in the future, but what I'm saying is this model iWatch won't. It fails on many levels. It will probably still sell a reasonable amount, but that doesn't make it any good.
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But have u read the reviews? Comments such as
"The sad news is that, while the company mostly nailed the exterior design, Motorola totally dropped the ball when it comes to the internal components. Somehow, it managed to dig up a batch of crusty old OMAP 3 SoCs for its flagship watch. The 2010-era processor is old, slow, inefficient, and power hungry. Couple that with a 320mAh battery and we get around half the runtime of other Android Wear devices."
Form versus actual function. On function, Apple wins. If your "dressing for success" or to impress, get a Tag, Breitling, Rolex, etc - not a Smart Watch of any manufacturer.
Those were all stand alone devices that didn't need a device that did everything better than said device nor did it need a different device to fully function.
Can you prove that Samsung and Motorola weren't creating a device before they heard apple was?
All smartwatches fail, the idea of a watch is to show the time and to provide time-related functionality. You wear it and you can forget about it, unless you leave your time-zone or you need to exchange the battery after years in case you have a digital watch.
Now we get computers, not providing the basic functionality of watches at all. There is simply no affordable technology around, smartwatches will evolve over time.
Talking about battery life, charging methods and size of electronic components.
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Of course it's all relative, but compared to a $10K fine Swiss timepiece, $350 is pretty thrifty.
Oh, they likely were working on them, just like Google was working on a phone before the iPhone was released. Now, the current crop of Android-based smart watches look pretty good but you can bet that much of what Samsung, Motorola, Google, and LG do with watches is preemptive or "forward-reactionary" to what they think Apple will do. They'd be stupid not to. Apple sets the tone. If smart watches are successful, it will be because of Apple. Outside the Pebble (great watch but many limitations) no smart watch thus far has been close to successful.
True, but I don't think it's quite rational to compare it to a swiss time piece. I mean we could sort of say the same thing about fake rolexes you might buy in NYC's China town.
What he said. Never seen so many armchair engineers and industrial designers who are sniveling and complaining about a new product that so far anyone who has actually seen it in person, has nothing but praise for the design, workmanship and features. When the AppleWatch sells its 10,000,000 unit, will be fun to come back here and laugh at all of your comments.
First you said that the only reason they made one was because they heard apple was. Now, you're saying they likely were making them before they heard apple was. None of what you're saying is making sense. The truth of the matter is apple should have waited another year with all the hires they recently made and what they would have had would have been a monster. This thing that they created however I feel is the result of feeling like they had to rush because of all the smart watches coming out. I'm not sure if they felt that they were indeed missing out on a lot of revenue by not having one out. But whatever this watch is they revealed feels so unpolished. It's just not and we all know when they put their mind to it they are hard to beat.
No, I can't. Can you prove they were? I know the Samsung CEO said they were (and it would be great to take him at his word but he also can't say "We just want to copy Apple").
Also, read my previous reply. Someone would have to be naive to think that Samsung and Motorola weren't developing watches and trying to account for what Apple might do. That's how you keep up or keep ahead. Apple tries to account for what other phone makers do (hence the larger iPhones). Because Apple is the market leader and sets the majority of the trends, they don't have to react as quickly.
Original iPhone announced January 9, 2007
Released June 29, 2007. 5 and a half months!
iPad announced January 2010
Released April 2010. 3 months.
How is this any different at all?
That logic is so stupid, and you're the one vehemently insisting that they were. Yet you have no evidence of it. That's such a childish argument you are using I don't think I'm going to bother having a discussion with you if you're going to use that type of mindset. You can't accuse someone of something without having evidence. It makes your credibility non existent.
Don't overestimate swiss time pieces. My Maurice Lacroix ( really expensive one ) was off time and could not be fixed, my titanium T-Touch II failed completely after the first battery exchange. Now I wear no watch and will probably buy a smartwatch in 2015.
So funny as I wonder what you will say when these sell in the millions? In my circle of friends of 8 people, 7 love it and want one day one...