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Jony Ive Ordered Boxes Full of Nike Watches in the Mid-2000s
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Copy that, over your vector, Victor.
Surely we can take off now, Roger.
I'm going to wait for the farsighted model.
Even if this is true, we already know they aren't adhering to it verbatim. If they were, the iPad mini wouldn't exist...
Because Jobs never changed his mind on anything? He was already "very receptive" to the idea according to Eddy Cue, shortly after the first iPad launched. Jobs rant against 7" tablets was a completely different class of tablet than what the iPad mini is. Blown up smartphone apps versus full size iPad apps. If the iPads UI was shrunk down to 7", everything would have become too small and unusable. Which is exactly what Jobs said. That's why the Mini is about 8". Yes, that extra inch makes a difference. 35% more surface area difference. Most importantly, the iPad user interface remains above Apples human interface guidelines for minimum tap target sizes.
Few really care what Mr. Ive bought in bulk a decade ago. Nor does the bulk purchase imply anything beyond there was an interest a while back in Sony watches.
I can see that battery issues could easily be overcome with a standby 'watch-only mode' but yes, really - an iWatch? It smacks of 'what's left to i-ify?'
Next up for the rumour mill will be the iGlasses and the iHat.
I dont want an iWatch.. Please Jony, don't do this.
Apple need to do a major stock buy back so they aren't working for the investors - go back to their roots and get back into the professionals work.
I'm fed up of everyone and their dog owning a damn iDevice and thinking they are superior when they are just sheeple.
Apple need to do a major stock buy back so they aren't working for the investors - go back to their roots and get back into the professionals work.
I'm fed up of everyone and their dog owning a damn iDevice and thinking they are superior when they are just sheeple.
I can't help but think about the old Dick Tracy comics and his famous "radio watch".
That was such a cool concept, yet this current imagining blows that away.
Oh, and @Rogifan ...
Thank you for sharing these old snippets!
That was such a cool concept, yet this current imagining blows that away.
Oh, and @Rogifan ...
Thank you for sharing these old snippets!
No the exact opposite. There was at least interest to build an Apple watch because the head of product design was examining other products. Seems pretty concrete to me that Apple is/was exploring the idea. Does that mean the product will see the light of day? Not definitely, but they probably have a couple working prototypes at least
Or maybe they were investigating functionality and comfort of the watch with the intent to create accessories for whatever that iPod is you can wear as watch..
Or maybe me Ive liked the design and drew inspiration from it maybe it interface or whatever and wanted to see what his team though.
Maybe they were investigating plastics to use as bumpers or accessories and the watch band was made from what they had selected and wanted to try it in real life..
These are just three things I can think of off the top of my head that have nothing to do with making a watch.
Watches seem to be where the puck is not where its going to be, if you look at the people commenting on these threads those of us that do wear a watch are in the minority and most likely wouldn't buy the Apple watch anyway.
YOU need. Let everyone else speak for him/herself
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Of course it is. This is the iTime
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For now. Eventually they will likely do a glasses piece.
But rather like releasing the phone first cause folks were used to carrying a phone around, a watch is likely the more comfortable piece to start folks with.
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Not an official statement. Truth could be less or more
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Or it would. Comments have been made by Eddy Cue that he approached Steve on the issue of a smaller iPad having a market. Steve enjoyed folks challenging him if they could back up their side. Perhaps Eddy could and convinced him before he left and the iPad Mini was in the plan
Normally, yes... I have it pretty deep in my jacket pocket to prevent people snatching it, and the phone itself is in a neoprene case so I need to open 2 zippers and some velcro to get to it
A smartwatch is really much handier for this.----------
I agree, and I am very interested in Google Glass as well (and even more so if Apple makes their version of it). But I agree it's not really ready for mainstream yet.
That's the number given on the front page of MacRumors quoting Bloomberg. Of course your data and analysis of world markets must be more authoritative than Bloomberg's.
If you're taking the word of bloomberg (can't find that alleged number on this site) over worldwide market industry numbers stating the total market for watches (from mass market to luxury) comprised of comprehensive analytics from the US, Canada, Japan, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Latin America that projects the market to grow to $46 billion in 2017, then we, madame, have reached an impasse.
I thought the exact same thing. I'm still trying to make sense of that bit of the article, and I just can't. It should be written a little more clearly.
No one is currently doing anything interesting with watches and the market appears to have peaked long ago. But if that's true, wouldn't that make it a good opportunity for reinvention? That has been typical Apple: take a languishing product or market that everyone else has dismissed as irrelevant, and then revolutionalize it. Then own the new market since whatever initial competition there is will be half-hearted or caught flat-footed.
Before Apple, MP3 players were clunky and unappealing, and phones weren't all that smart and tended to look like Blackberries. Microsoft had given up on their tablet/slate ideas. No companies seemed to have any vision for these products until Apple jumped in. Now phones all look like iPhones and tablets all look like iPads.
Linking a watch to a cell phone might be a interesting idea. Who knows? What is known is that no one's seriously doing anything like this yet. Sounds like a ripe, untapped opportunity to me. Isn't that what entrepeneurs look for? If Apple does develop one, who knows what creative and cool things developers and users will dream up for it? The watch could be a slave to the phone and also have its own apps in the store. I know I've never seen a watch with a touch screen before.
We always make the mistake of dismissing ideas because we can't imagine how we or anyone else would use it. I'm sure the guy who invented the wheel got dubious looks from the first people he showed it to.
In your original post you asked what the point was. The point is that Apple have the capability and possibly the willingness to act to bring a watch product to market. You do not. That is my point... nothing else. And I know many people on these forums are interested in an Apple watch and are therefore interested in the fact that Ive was examining another company's product
Have we even reached the mid 2000s yet? Wouldn't the mid 2000s be somewhere around 2050, that being approximately half way between 2000 and 2100?
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Why would anyone need a 'surface' style iPad? If you want a surface style tablet buy a fracking Surface.
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True, but there is nothing like a fine mechanical watch.
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I still have one of those in a box with a lot of other watches I've owned over the years.
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Why would anyone need a 'surface' style iPad? If you want a surface style tablet buy a fracking Surface.
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True, but there is nothing like a fine mechanical watch.
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I still have one of those in a box with a lot of other watches I've owned over the years.
And my original point was just because Mr. Ive bought watches a decade ago doesn't mean Apple was/is working on a watch. It simply means that something interested him.
Well we know people haven't tired of the lame Ive copies Braun meme.
Well, it's true.
Or do you think it's just a coincidence that a lot of Ive's designs looks a lot like what Rams designed?
So, maybe Rams got angry when Ive got knighted, or when Apple paid for the Swiss clock design... Not sure if Rams or Braun ever got anything from having the designs copied by Ive.
