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Jony Ive Ordered Boxes Full of Nike Watches in the Mid-2000s
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Samsung studies to learn what TO DO.
Apple studies to learn what NOT TO DO. Less is more.
As a Certified Master Watchmaker, I can attest to major changes in the way watches are perceived. Just since the 90's when Rolex and others of that level sold everything they could produce, the market has changed. Watches are unitaskers. They tell the time. A 100k$ Swiss watch may tell you the phase of the moon and the time in Moscow but it's still a time instrument. Watchmaking is retreating to the high ground as manufacturing technology make sever fancier models possible at ever more extravagant prices. But watch purchases are declining. it's a piece of jewelry to most who still wear them. Most people who wear a five-figure watch will check the time on their smartphones. One client came in with his fancy calendar watch and joked that he had been wearing it for two weeks before he noticed it had stopped working.
There is a market for something new and better. A wrist data center would open up a whole new market that others can only scratch at. If Apple is working on such a product, I think the time is just about right for it. Like the iPhone, there will be a discovery process of customer and manufacturer learning what is possible and what is wanted. But the time is coming soon.
There is a market for something new and better. A wrist data center would open up a whole new market that others can only scratch at. If Apple is working on such a product, I think the time is just about right for it. Like the iPhone, there will be a discovery process of customer and manufacturer learning what is possible and what is wanted. But the time is coming soon.
That watch team was entirely replaced by Nike. They left and started Soleus, a running watch company.
http://www.soleusrunning.com
http://www.soleusrunning.com
Everyone copies an idea here and there, but few large companies copy an entire product so thoroughly and shamelessly calls it their own the way Samsung does.
Very interesting. Thank you for posting. So refreshing to read something like this than the 90% of bickering that usually goes on in the comment sections.
I questioned the smarts behind Apple releasing a watch in a different thread. Who wears watches that much anymore with all of the smart phones out there?
What do you think Apple could do to make people accept and use an Apple watch?
I think the killer app would have to be a speaker phone. If you could answer calls and have a speaker phone on your wrist, that would be pretty cool. It would be great for driving. No need to fumble through your pockets or purse while driving. Leave the phone where it is and the watch has the mic and the speakers as well as the answer and hang up button.
I think Apple's watch will be here soon, I think it'll be Apple's answer to Google Glass (which is rumoured to be going consumer by the end of this year). So I'd expect Apple's watch in the same timeframe. A smartwatch is less geeky and also offers simple notifications without having to resort to taking your smartphone out. They might announce it early like they did the first iPhone and iPad: There won't be any sales lost of existing products that will slow down after announcing it because it's a new product.
I've had my Pebble for 2 weeks now and I'm really impressed how much it really adds. A quick glance at the watch will tell you who's calling without having to stop walking, and it's one button press to send the call to voicemail. Same for texts, one glance and you got most of it.
And I'm sure once Apple is done with it it'll be even greater than the Pebble.
I've had my Pebble for 2 weeks now and I'm really impressed how much it really adds. A quick glance at the watch will tell you who's calling without having to stop walking, and it's one button press to send the call to voicemail. Same for texts, one glance and you got most of it.
And I'm sure once Apple is done with it it'll be even greater than the Pebble.
THAT is the iWatch? So ugly
Um, do you not see the Nike logo on the thing?
Copy what? The thing hasn't even been announced or released yet.
Preemptive accusations fall right in the "irrational thinking" category.
Foresight
It has been said the Steve Jobs had left at least a 5 year plan for Apple to proceed with and I surmise that the 'iWatch' was thoroughly brain-stormed prior to his death. I would expect we should see a hands free communication device that will knock the socks off the skeptics that will come out in various states of upgrade for the next few years.
It has been said the Steve Jobs had left at least a 5 year plan for Apple to proceed with and I surmise that the 'iWatch' was thoroughly brain-stormed prior to his death. I would expect we should see a hands free communication device that will knock the socks off the skeptics that will come out in various states of upgrade for the next few years.
"It's just too thin!"Can't wait for the "You're holding it wrong" thread on that one.
riiiigghtttt....
actually you may have a point.
Apple probably studied google maps and learned how NOT to make a worthwhile map offering.
Said by who? Please find me an actual source from within Apple that has said what you and so many on the damn forum have stated.
In fact the only place I have even seen it mentioned is on this forum.
The number of myths and FUD mentioned once and then repeated without there ever being a source is becoming almost as alarming as something from 2007 making the front page.