Yeah, just like when the Mac Pro had constant updates under Steve, and there wasn't more than a 12 month gap between iPhone releases (except the 4 and 4S, of course). Apple's gone downhill since TC took over.
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iWatch Mass Production Might Start in November
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Yeah, just like when the Mac Pro had constant updates under Steve, and there wasn't more than a 12 month gap between iPhone releases (except the 4 and 4S, of course). Apple's gone downhill since TC took over.
Sapphire crystal covers are hardly new technology! Especially in watches. I assume you mean the way Apple is having them made is new?
Doesn't matter. If the shareholders aren't happy, Apple's stocks will sink like a stone and that puts the company in a bad position regardless of good sales. I agree, if the iWatch is not released this year...Apple will be seriously behind the game. But I certainly don't think it'll be the end of them!
Contradiction
Tim Cook said last year that Apple would innovate "throughout 2014". However, there's no significant innovation in terms of hardware. That fact hints that the development of iWatch delayed.
I hope that delay will bring us a true game-changing product.
Tim Cook said last year that Apple would innovate "throughout 2014". However, there's no significant innovation in terms of hardware. That fact hints that the development of iWatch delayed.
I hope that delay will bring us a true game-changing product.
can we have it now please. 
I'm not sure you are full aware what innovation means. Apple has announced -and in the mean time released (to developers)- a number of very innovative solutions in terms of software.
In addition we do not yet know the full extent of new features that the new iPhone will bring and what other hardware updates Apple has in store this year.
Like many you seem to equate "innovation" only to new products such as an iWatch, whereas real innovation occurs or better said is created on several levels: incremental innovations (e.g. improvements to materials (sapphire) or hardware functions (camera), new functions in software, business or earnings models and hardware) and disruptive innovations (e.g. new product categories such as iPad).
Waterproof accessories exist.
Curved Displays exist.
Battery operated devices exists.
I think Apple has problems with the yield.
You have to consider that they have to produce millions.
It's not like a luxury watch that gets sold 50 times per year.
The delay cannot be caused by design issues, because the design has been fixed month ago. You have to make contracts, allocate production capacities at suppliers and monitor batches for variations and throughput.
This is surely happening for month now. They is no production problem, maybe a yield or quality issue. The production planning had to be finalized way before now.
Curved Displays exist.
Battery operated devices exists.
I think Apple has problems with the yield.
You have to consider that they have to produce millions.
It's not like a luxury watch that gets sold 50 times per year.
The delay cannot be caused by design issues, because the design has been fixed month ago. You have to make contracts, allocate production capacities at suppliers and monitor batches for variations and throughput.
This is surely happening for month now. They is no production problem, maybe a yield or quality issue. The production planning had to be finalized way before now.
Yeah exactly. We have 2 events left for the year so I'm hoping we'll have Apple TV / Wearable news at one of them .
Just so. If Apple can pull that one off, they will have a revolutionary product in this space!
If all we get this fall are new iPhones and new iPads (even if the iPhone has a larger screen) the stock will take a nosedive and the media meme of Apple not innovating will be in full force once again. Especially with Cook promising new product categories this year.
If Apple plans to sell it this year, they need it on the shelves by Thanksgiving. Otherwise, I anticipate a "slow burn" introduction. Announce the product in the Sept-Nov timeframe with a release date of early 2015, and release the SDK to devs. This will allow hype to build, and knock competitor's smartwatch sales on its ass. It will also allow Apple's newly hired engineers and execs to finalize features and marketing plan.
exactly! I'd rather they wait and not pull a samsung by releasing garbage. look at the current smart watches - they're horrible.
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oh - really? how many years after Microsoft shipped the first tablet did Apple release theirs? a decade? Apple won't release it until its ready. Steve Jobs wouldn't allow it. He'd hold it back and make them fix the issues - seems like Tim is doing the same exact thing (assuming this analysts is correct)
I'll be surprised if it happens by November, frankly. They are just now hiring people from Nike and TAG. Do we really think they would be bringing in these skillsets so late in the game?
All the doubt, fear and worry will fall away as soon as the event invitation is released featuring a '6' somewhere on it (for iPhone 6) and the tagline: "This is well worth a watch."
Oh well, getting tired of my pebble steel, too bad if the iwatch gets pushed back even further...
Exactly. The only thing Steve might have done differently is tease new categories. He wouldn't have needed to. He would have convinced us Apple was fine with the Retina MacBook Pro, super thin iMac and all-new Mac Pro.
Yes and what happened to his promise to release new products "throughout 2014". It's half way through the year and they've released exactly zero new products so far with apparently nothing on the horizon until Sept again when presumably everything will come out within a short 2 month period.
Somebody from the SEC should look into this as I believe it's a deliberate attempt by Cook to mislead investors and keep the stock price up. I'm fairly sure that's illegal.
Grow up.
Like Apple need to mislead investors over a product.
Did it occur to you that maybe it was on track for a release in 2014 when he spoke about new products in 2014, but due to production/R&D/whatever, it simply became impossible to meet that initial expectation?
Also, you're assuming that "New" products means something they haven't released before (iWatch), as opposed to a "new" iPhone model.
Seems odd. It's a retail imperative (yes, even for Apple) that holiday products are available BEFORE Black Friday. November production start is cutting it awfully close, esp. in light of Cook's self-admitted botching of the updated 27" iMac. If the iWatch is Apple's next big thing it must either be available in realistic quantity, not 5,000 units and "sold out" come back in January folks, or it needs to release it in the spring like the original iPad when quantity can be more plentiful.
But that brings us to another issue, if the iWatch isn't announced then what is the new product category Cook promised?
My gut tells me this story is incorrect & that Apple's watch will be announced in Oct & launched by mid-November.
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Actually yes, when they did this they were clearly trying to halt a drifting downward stock & stories about how Apple/Tim Cook can't come up with a new product. It wasn't said to tease Apple fans.
But if Apple misses it's a black eye on it & Cook. It's why Apple usually doesn't talk about new products, even vaguely, until release us certain. BTW Cook explicitly said new categories, not just new products. That eliminates updates of existing lines.
But that brings us to another issue, if the iWatch isn't announced then what is the new product category Cook promised?
My gut tells me this story is incorrect & that Apple's watch will be announced in Oct & launched by mid-November.
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Grow up.
Like Apple need to mislead investors over a product.
Did it occur to you that maybe it was on track for a release in 2014 when he spoke about new products in 2014, but due to production/R&D/whatever, it simply became impossible to meet that initial expectation?
Also, you're assuming that "New" products means something they haven't released before (iWatch), as opposed to a "new" iPhone model.
Actually yes, when they did this they were clearly trying to halt a drifting downward stock & stories about how Apple/Tim Cook can't come up with a new product. It wasn't said to tease Apple fans.
But if Apple misses it's a black eye on it & Cook. It's why Apple usually doesn't talk about new products, even vaguely, until release us certain. BTW Cook explicitly said new categories, not just new products. That eliminates updates of existing lines.
Revolutionary or not... Until I see the iWatch... I do not think smart watch are useful... I also do think think iWatch will last as long as my watch...I just brought 300 dollar Boss watch and my last fossil watch's battery last forever
I believe that if Apple doesn't release a new category of product in 2014 Tim Cook will start losing credibility. He has been saying that Apple "Will release new products in 2012, 2013, 2014". Granted, in 2012 he just said we have exciting things coming. But for the next two years he specifically mentioned new products. By the way I don't count the new Mac Pro as it was just a redesign.
Up until now there's has been nothing new. If we don't get something in 2014 I think people will stop listening to him and his empty promises. He will take a hit to his credibility.