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NYT: Apple is Working on a Curved Glass Smart Watch

AZREOSpecialist said:
Those things already exist, it's called an iPhone. Why would I want to wear it on my wrist? I haven't worn a wrist watch in decades and have no desire to wear one ever again. I also feel the same way about underwear.
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Before the early 1920s people had no desire to eat bacon for breakfast. The thought to do so was crazy. But then the pork industry hired a PR genius to ramp up sales and the rest is history.

Point being, the public's behavioral attitudes and thoughts on subjects, even ones held for centuries, can change quickly. Don't base what people do today on what they will do tomorrow. Else we'd still be using kerosene lamps and driving horse and buggies... no women allowed to drive or vote either.
 
From one man to another

Gentlemen, please continue to wear your mechanical movement watches till the end of time. Only if needed for extreme environments/conditions on the job, should one wear tough, digital watches.
 
These folks need some better ideas. Apple has been dying without any clean ideas since the iPad. Just repetitive same products with only minor tweaks.
 
theotherdell said:
I think ubiquitous computing has rendered the practical functions of a watch obsolete. The fashion/jewellery functions of a watch are quite different and Apple wont win here without loosing their "Apple" quality.

A wrist-mounted device for security and payment will clearly sell well to technology addicts, but adds little real value to the lives of most people. A watch that controls your iDevice is pretty redundant - said device is in your hand half the day already.

It would be sad and cynical if Cook's membership of two boards drove this forward too far.
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The part that I think you are not quite getting the significance of, is the security benefits that can come out of something like this. When three things come together in one simple device that is easy to have with you, it will be truly revolutionary. Get reliable positive biometric identification - which Apple might have with it's recent fingerprint reading acquisition - combined with secure communication and accurate proximity sensing ... and that will be absolutely huge. One device to securely unlock as many devices, doors, transactions etc... as can be set up for it. The next disruptive technology, and it might be just about ready to happen -- it seems doable.

Wether or not it's done with something you strap to your wrist is irrelevant -- that's simply _a_ way to have such a device with you ... and there are a thousand ways for that to not go over in the market as you pointed out.

I definately want what I typed above -- and I think most everyone else will too once they "get" it, and more and more uses for it come online. I just don't want to have to strap it to my wrist. Give me a nano sized device.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Uh, no one, not even you, knows what features an Apple watch will bring. That is what I wrote. It's a lot more "constructive," than your snarky post, which cannot be factually proven for truth. How can you dismiss a product you've never even seen before except in your own private & 3rd party dreams?
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Apples business is based on taking other devices and improving them, looking at the several smart watches that have been sold and are currently sold, plus looking at the iPhone and iPod, I think it's pretty safe to assume what any iWatch will do.
You appear to be in denial of that? what wonderful magical innovation do you possibly believe Apple's device will do that you cannot possibly predict?
I haven't dismissed it in any way, I said it would be useful, how is that dismissing it? It will no doubt have a battery, and unless it's solar powered will require charging, now bearing in mind it's a watch and will no doubt have bluetooth on all the time, that battery will need recharging once every week or two unless Apple revolutionise the battery.
It's pretty easy to determine what feature and functionality any iWatch will have. It's actually a bit naive to claim otherwise.
 
People said the iPad was useless because we had a smartphone and laptops can do everything better than an iPad so we don't need it. *rollseyes*

There would be a ton of people who would like a wrist computer. The pebble is proof of that. Now if Apple made something like that that looked better, wasn't clunky to use (basically add a touch screen) and had a better UI, something as unobtrusive as a watch to give me notifications and the ability to change my music or give a quick text through voice without having to take a phone out of my pocket or have an annoying headset or headphones in would be killer! (Plus all the other uses I cannot think of right now) It wouldn't take away any features from anything, it would only add features to what you have. It would do nothing but streamline your life... If you needed to do something on the phone, you can take it out of your pocket like you did before...
 
apolloa said:
Apples business is based on taking other devices and improving them, looking at the several smart watches that have been sold and are currently sold, plus looking at the iPhone and iPod, I think it's pretty safe to assume what any iWatch will do.
You appear to be in denial of that? what wonderful magical innovation do you possibly believe Apple's device will do that you cannot possibly predict? ...
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If I had such a brilliant mind to be able to predict Apple's moves before it does I'd be on magazine covers everywhere and have multi-million $ offers piling up. Alas, I'm just a slightly above average person, no prodigy, for sure. Judging from your posts, you are no different, so I don't know why you pretend otherwise.

You are correct though that Apple has a knack for reinventing devices, i.e., taking and existing product that has decent sales and moderate adoption and transforming into something the great masses from all walks of life want.

Take a few of Apple's most famous reinventions... the iPod looked & worked nothing like any MP3 player at the time. It was similar and just completely different, and in a way none of us could have predicted.

The iPhone too smartphones to an entirely new level. At the time the reigning champs were the Palm and the Blackberry, both severely clunky and obnoxious compared to the iPhone's interface. Again, not anything that was expected.

Then there is the iPad. Apple redesigned the concept of a tablet computer to make it the first widely consumer accepted device of its kind. Previous Windows tablets were niche devices at best and the other other similar tablets were limited function eReaders. The iPad was the most obvious feature wise ("a big iPhone," was the cry @ announcement) but developers have carved out uses for it unthinkable even a five years ago.

So yes, I'm going to hold my thoughts on the specific device until I know the facts. This isn't the case of the jury being out. The trial hasn't even started yet.
 
Give me an iChip implanted skin deep just behind the ear. My dog has one. :eek:

To answer incoming calls you simply scratch.

When my wife loses me in the supermarket she can tug an earlobe to activate "find my husband!" (sends searing pain to the brain's frontal lobes).

Oh... the possibilities. Off to the patent office I go!
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Before the early 1920s people had no desire to eat bacon for breakfast. The thought to do so was crazy. But then the pork industry hired a PR genius to ramp up sales and the rest is history.

Point being, the public's behavioral attitudes and thoughts on subjects, even ones held for centuries, can change quickly. Don't base what people do today on what they will do tomorrow. Else we'd still be using kerosene lamps and driving horse and buggies... no women allowed to drive or vote either.
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Totally agree with the women and driving thing LOL
 
weing said:
Call me crazy ,but I think getting young people to wear a watch-like item on their wrist other than as a short-lived fad is about as likely as getting them wanting to wear a bowler hat.
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Or as likely as getting them wanting to wear bold white earbuds & cables?

You're describing a world in which fashion never changes, behavior never changes. The reality is just the opposite. Apple's got quite a record of introducing tools the usefulness of which is quickly discovered and valued, and which are used conspicuously, or even worn, with pride. Do you really think that 50 years from now the ski cap will still be the most-worn "hat" for men?

Maybe this is why they changed the iPod nano. Because they're going to release an actual watch now???
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A great observation several of others made after you. I liked my Nano--the radio feature makes it a great device at NFL games, for example--keeps expert analysis in my ear. I think the form factor would be improved along with the other functional advances described by many in this thread.

...so the iPhone is just...a phone?
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That really gets to the gist of the debate going on in this thread. A new product might be called an "iWatch" but it would no more be just a watch than the iPhone is just a phone.

The various "sizes" of apple's products appeal to different people. For me, an 11-inch MBA with a 480GB SSD and 23" external monitor, an iPod Mini and an iPhone comprise that perfect span of capabilities and carry-abilities. Your choices may differ. For my product-set, the introduction of an "iWatch" might alter the equation: With Skype and an LTE iPad mini and some further hardware/software innovations, there might be no more need for the iPhone. For me. Or not. Product innovation inevitably leads to changes in patterns of use. Don't fight it, look forward to it with curiosity and anticipation.
 
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boss1 said:
There's no existing market, or one to create, large enough for watches anymore.
just... stop this nonsense.
There's no iWatch, at least in the state it's being presented here.

Think about it:
1. A multi-touch device worn directly out of reach of the touching fingers? Ok, so it's a one hand device, but the natural position of the wrist that carries the device isn't very natural for long periods of time. You'll exercise the heck out of your left shoulder!

2. NFC, proximity tech, pedometer stuff, compass, RFID, ummm no. You could say that about any existing device. You can stuff that tech into a Keychain and it would be more useful than an iWatch.

....A multi-touch Coffee mug would make more sense than an iWatch ... coffee mugs & water bottles are toted around by the general population in larger numbers than watches.

I'll give you this, the only way this is going to happen: is if Apple finds a specific problem to be solved by introducing a wearable PC in the form of an iOS watch.

And it had better be a big problem, because I'm not buying it.
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I'll hang on to this post so you can eat it later. A smart watch is coming in the not so distant future from Apple. And its going to be a massive. So massive that you will even wake up at 3am to pre-order it. Just wait and see.
 
Garbage

More consumer throwaway junk from Tim Cook, who's running Apple into the ground. They're becoming so bloated and chasing fickle hype oriented crap while they ignore the core customer. No new Mac Pro for 5+ years, but a watch? Who needs a watch when you have a smartphone anyway?
 
Suman0102 said:
Gentlemen, please continue to wear your mechanical movement watches till the end of time. Only if needed for extreme environments/conditions on the job, should one wear tough, digital watches.
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I don't know if this is supposed to be sarcastic, but I intend to do so. My watch (and perhaps someday a wedding band) is the one socially acceptable piece of jewelry that I can wear in all occasions. It conveys a level of status that comes across if I'm in jeans and a t-shirt or a thousand dollar suit. I have a lot of Apple products, but I doubt I would take off my mechanical automatic watch for a digital Apple watch.
 
Just add BT 4.0 to the NANO

That's really all you had to do and would have sold much more. I like the concept of the smart watches and OBVIOUSLY with the million dollar kicksstarter pebble, many others do too. Who cares if you don't wear a watch now. You will when this is made.
 
dkersten said:
I can't wait til people who say they would never use an Apple Smartwatch buy one and realize how useful it is, like with every Apple product released
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Which will presumably happen sometime before you lose your virginity. And gain independent thought.
 
dkersten said:
I can't wait til people who say they would never use an Apple Smartwatch buy one and realize how useful it is, like with every Apple product released
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Feel free to PM me every year on this day. I still won't have one. Or any other watch.
 
Dumb Idea

I am deff gonna sit this one out. I think this is about as compelling as a "smart" toilet...oh wait, that's in the pipeline for 2014 :cool:
 
tech4all said:
No it's a great idea. Make an Apple watch. Call it the iWatch. Put the :apple: on it. Charge a bizzillion dollars for it. People will camp out to be the first to own it.




Status symbol much?
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That watch isn't expensive, so no, not really about status as much as just generating conversation ; )

And yes, the U-boat is in another class obviously price-wise! But from ridiculousness/size, you can't get more-so than a Diesel
 
GuitarDTO said:
No, THIS is a watch. And yes, I own this. I call it the Conversation Starter. The looks I get are worth the price alone. I've spoken to many a stranger simply because they were curious enough to ask me about it.

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Big, goofy and gaudy. I'd feel like a total attention whore if I wore that. "Conversation Starter?" More fitting would be the 'Look At Me. I'm compensating for something.'

:D
 
Job's iWatch

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"Jobs carried this watch in his a** for 5 years"

:rolleyes:
 

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Too futuristic, not practical

Miniaturization and integration for electronic devices is a very common idea, comic book writer can draw something like this too. What's the big deal about iWatch?

How about i-Earrings for earphone, i-Pendant for microphone, i-Eyeglasses for information display?

Right now the technology is not ready yet. iWatch is an iMagination, it is a iDream.
 
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