Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race

[robeddie]

I haven't worn a watch since 2002.

Exactly! I think a lot of people have gotten out of the habit of having a strap around their wrist and the whole idea of a wristwatch is going to fail because people aren't going to change their habits.

They'll still need their phone, which will always be able to do whatever their little bitty screen watch does, and a lot better!

 

[KdParker]

SO tired of all the copycat carbon copy junk out there. cant companies be original?

Since nobody has a smart watch out yet. Can't really say who is copying who.

So far this has all been vaporware.

 

[D.T.]

Since nobody has a smart watch out yet. Can't really say who is copying who.

So far this has all been vapor wear.

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I wonder how many products "in-development" at Apple are actually fake and leaked by Apple just so all other copy-cat companies dilute their resources trying to make such products while Apple focuses on a few still.

I don't think there's much "faking", so much as there's a significant amount of R&D, prototyping, etc., that doesn't result in production products. Sometimes a technology gets put into a device as a proof-of-concept to support the tech, and the device is never intended to be released (so I suppose you could say it's a "fake"). Cycles spent on actively creating dead end products to divert other brands? I can't image that being a good use of time when real products need so much effort.

 

[phillipduran]

And just how is this going to fit into the Microsoft ecosystem? Apple is likely doing it because it fits their software and hardware environment. Microsoft looks at others and says "Me too!"

This is why their tablets are failing. To much "what are they doing" and not enough "what should I do" from Microsoft. Well, even when they do that - Windows 8, they still fail.

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Since nobody has a smart watch out yet. Can't really say who is copying who.

So far this has all been vapor wear.

It would be funny if Apple decided to not go forward with an iWatch. I would have to point an laugh at the the idea copycat competitors.

 

[saha-med]

Hater logic:

Teacher: Johnny, why are you doing the same project as mark?
Johnny: Well his project seems like such a good idea
Teacher: U cant copy other people's idea
Johnny: Uh, technically he hasnt finished his project yet, so how can i be copying an unfinished product?
Teacher: ...

 

[spazzcat]

Since nobody has a smart watch out yet. Can't really say who is copying who.

So far this has all been vapor wear.

I guess you haven't heard of the Pebble?

 

[ChazUK]

Is it it time people put a stop to all this "apple is first, everyone is copying them" smartwatch malarkey?

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/

Undoubtedly people have done this even before Sony's efforts but still....


In b4 it doesn't count because of X

 

[KdParker]

Just had this idea: Since lots of ideas for smart watches involve huge power consumption (compared to a plain quartz watch) with possible very reduced battery life, what about a wind up watch? Here's the idea: The smart watch should be designed so that it can last quite long if it is only displaying the time. Other functions may take more power. If the battery goes down to say 20% all other functions get turned off, so it still displays the time for ages. If you want the smart functions, just wind it up. Should be designed so that winding it up once in the morning is enough.

I wouldn't buy a 'smart watch' that I had to wind up.

 

[Oletros]

Hater logic:

Are you saying that Apple is copying others?

 

[roadbloc]

Still not understanding the desire for a Smart Watch, but whatever.

 

[KdParker]

I guess you haven't heard of the Pebble?

I have but isn't this just a glorified controller for my phone?

 

[HarryKNN21]

How about the battery life then? Normal digital watches can run for years after years, how about "smart watches"? Would we need a juice pack for that?

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Exactly! I think a lot of people have gotten out of the habit of having a strap around their wrist and the whole idea of a wristwatch is going to fail because people aren't going to change their habits.

They'll still need their phone, which will always be able to do whatever their little bitty screen watch does, and a lot better!

Nonsense. Take guys for example, I see all ages on the subway, at ball games, eat at casual restaurants with all types of watches, sports bands, or some sort of man-bracelet (college age kids on that one). I'm just using this as an example outside of work. A good chunk of the male population still wear watches either for fashion or practical use (not to tell time, but for fitness tracking). Sure it's below 50%, but still a sizable % of the population just for starters. The idea watches are dead is just silly and unfounded.

Watches trended downward because people didn't need them to tell time, but a smartwatch's primary purpose won't be as a time piece. Getting info on your wrist instead of digging in your pocket for your phone is going to be of huge interest to people IF the said watch is cool looking and fashionable.

Of course, MS isn't capable of that, based on past and current projects, but Apple is.

 

[HarryKNN21]

And just how is this going to fit into the Microsoft ecosystem? Apple is likely doing it because it fits their software and hardware environment. Microsoft looks at others and says "Me too!"

This is why their tablets are failing. To much "what are they doing" and not enough "what should I do" from Microsoft. Well, even when they do that - Windows 8, they still fail.

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It would be funny if Apple decided to not go forward with an iWatch. I would have to point an laugh at the the idea copycat competitors.

Windows 8 is nothing more than an imitation of OSX.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Since nobody has a smart watch out yet. Can't really say who is copying who.

So far this has all been vapor wear.

It's not even at the vaporware stage yet... it's just baseless Internet chatter. For a product to be vaporware it has to be announced and then the launch date missed by a mile.

 

[saha-med]

Are you saying that Apple is copying others?

Nvm what i said....put it this way

Tons of tech companies have tried to create a smartwatch and failed. Some done it more than once, some only once. But nobody cared about them back then.

Now, we get a rumor apple is working on a smartwatch.
Few days later, Hey samsung confirms smartwatch plans!
Few days later, Google is rumored to be working on a smartwatch
And now microsoft....

Now if those 3 tech companies are not considered to be following apple, then i dunno what is

 

[Oletros]

Now if those 3 tech companies are not considered to be following apple, then i dunno what is

Well, if you say that those companies are copycats you're also claiming that Apple is a copycat because the fact is that the three companies you have accused already had developed a smartwatch.

But you're free to call others haters when you're the one with all the hate against others

 

[phillipduran]

Is it it time people put a stop to all this "apple is first, everyone is copying them" smartwatch malarkey?

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/

Undoubtedly people have done this even before Sony's efforts but still....


In b4 it doesn't count because of X

Well this is how things usually go.

I would argue that no one did smart phones until Apple made the iPhone and changed what the meaning of smart phone was. Look at the copy cats there.

As usual, all eyes are on Apple to see what they are doing. No one is looking to MS to get pointers on how to make a smart watch are they?

 

[croooow]

I haven't worn a watch since 2002.

I do not care if Apple or Microsoft comes out with a watch, or how much it can do. I have a smartphone, I will NEVER wear a watch again.

I will take a look, of course. Same as when Apple puts out a new iPod. I won't get one, but I will take a look.

 

[phillipduran]

Windows 8 is nothing more than an imitation of OSX.

Now what did OSX do to deserve such a hateful statement? j/k

Truth be told, we're still not sure what in the world Windows 8 is. I don't even think Microsoft knows.

 

[saha-med]

Well, if you say that those companies are copycats you're also claiming that Apple is a copycat because the fact is that the three companies you have accused already had developed a smartwatch.

I used the word 'following'. Cuz thats what i felt was more appropriate. As they are following the smartwatch trend that apple probably will set

 

[BornAgainMac]

The Facebook Watch and the Amazon Kindle Watch next.

 

[gnasher729]

I wouldn't buy a 'smart watch' that I had to wind up.

You would prefer one that you have to plug into a power source? So you're walking in a park, you want to know what the weather will be like, your watch ran out of power, so you plug it in where? Winding up a watch can be done anywhere and anytime.

Windows 8 is nothing more than an imitation of OSX.

Not at all. It is to some degree an imitation of what some misguided people on MacRumors and elsewhere claimed what was the future for MacOS X, but thank heavens that Apple didn't go into that direction themselves!

 

[saha-med]

You would prefer one that you have to plug into a power source? So you're walking in a park, you want to know what the weather will be like, your watch ran out of power, so you plug it in where? Winding up a watch can be done anywhere and anytime.

technology progresses

 

[Oletros]

I used the word 'following'. Cuz thats what i felt was more appropriate. As they are following the smartwatch trend that apple probably will set

I give up. Yes, they are following a trend that has started Apple besides the fact that all of them have releases smartwatches before and there is a lot of hype with Pebble and other smartwacthes before the Apple rumor started.

And anyone that can think that they are not copycats is a hater