Maybe, but if you look at the BCM coil image, there's rectangles at the top and bottom of the circle. Looks like a classic watch design.
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Maybe, but if you look at the BCM coil image, there's rectangles at the top and bottom of the circle. Looks like a classic watch design.
You still need the stature and physique to pull off anything over 44mm.
My analogy still stands.
Your typical nerd:
next to this guy wearing a 40mm.
Your standard 40mm
47mm Panerai. Slightly bigger than the 360. Stallone and Statham can pull that off. Not many men can.
Wait, u took your time to reply me this? How about the shape... can you identify the shape on the pictures? No? Looks like everybody learned more than you about the iWatch today...
I said the watch is fashionable and the round shape is a big part of that. I didn't say all watches have to be round to be fashionable.
Motorola puts out a round watch, suddenly half of MR develops an irrational hatred for circles
It's not going to be round...
Let's think about this for a minute: a round watch makes sense (and looks really good) when the "application" is a clock. The classic 30 degree indicators of hours, the sweep second hand, all that good clock stuff. But for the Apple wearable, "clock" is just going to be an app, so the container holding the UI will have to be more flexible. And the circle is not a flexible enough app display container. In the same way that the classic Ma Bell rotary phone might be the perfect manifestation of the telephone, it wouldn't make sense to try to jam a UI to check email on an old rotary phone. The iPhone has a Phone app, and the wearable will have a clock app. But there's no way it makes sense for it to be round. The Moto 360 does look nifty when running it's clock app, but I think anything displaying a lot of text is going to result in a bunch of wasted display space or truncated like the Google one.... Just my random thought of the day....
Let's think about this for a minute: a round watch makes sense (and looks really good) when the "application" is a clock. The classic 30 degree indicators of hours, the sweep second hand, all that good clock stuff. But for the Apple wearable, "clock" is just going to be an app, so the container holding the UI will have to be more flexible. And the circle is not a flexible enough app display container. In the same way that the classic Ma Bell rotary phone might be the perfect manifestation of the telephone, it wouldn't make sense to try to jam a UI to check email on an old rotary phone. The iPhone has a Phone app, and the wearable will have a clock app. But there's no way it makes sense for it to be round. The Moto 360 does look nifty when running it's clock app, but I think anything displaying a lot of text is going to result in a bunch of wasted display space or truncated like the Google one.... Just my random thought of the day....
Have you seen the 3D angle shot of the round part? It makes it look too thin to be the face. It looks more like an internal component. Especially when you compare it to the chunky rounded rectangle part with the angled cutouts on the sides for the strap.
I posted just yesterday in the other iWatch thread that I'd be shocked if this wasn't waterproof for at least 10 meters. Pretty cool
Yup. Also, remember that iPod was not the first music player. Although it had innovative features and user interface, it was expensive, had modest feature list and many people predicted it would fail in the market place. I don't know whether the iWatch will have that kind of reception, but I'm not ready to bet against the iWatch quite yet... especially after having never seen the thing...
Looking forward to seeing what Apple's been up to with this thing. They have apparently been working on it for quite some time.. unlike Samsung's watches which seem to sprout like crabgrass...
Also, I wonder if the seemingly slow development of Siri has been caused by it's tie to the iWatch.
Regarding the form factor... oh, My... Its a rectangle... the horror! Some of the fantasy/fantastic expectations of this device remind me of the days leading up to the introduction of the Segway.... there were people seriously expecting that it was a real live, honest to gosh HOVERBOARD. Never mind the physics....
I still don't get it
I still need to lug around a phone
I still need to remember the phone and, unless its battery is umpteen times the most optimistic estimates, will now need to remember to take my 'watch' with me too every morning (cos it'll no longer be near permanently attached to my wrist like my current one is).
Then, regardless of how long a battery the 'watch' has, I'm still only getting the all 'singing all dancing experience' for as long as my phone that it's paired to has juice.
After that all I can do is use it to tell the time and thus work out how long it'll be before I get home to charge the ***** phone back up..
I still need to lug around a phone
I still need to remember the phone and, unless its battery is umpteen times the most optimistic estimates, will now need to remember to take my 'watch' with me too every morning (cos it'll no longer be near permanently attached to my wrist like my current one is).
Then, regardless of how long a battery the 'watch' has, I'm still only getting the all 'singing all dancing experience' for as long as my phone that it's paired to has juice.
After that all I can do is use it to tell the time and thus work out how long it'll be before I get home to charge the ***** phone back up..
I'm starting think they are going to reveal several types & styles of watches/bands/wearables tomorrow (not just men/women sizes). I thinking there might be a fitness-related one, a fashion/luxury-related one, and maybe a medical-related one. I think they might unveil a whole line of wearables rather than a one-watch-to-rule-them-all "iWatch".
Genuinely looking forward to tomorrow, not because i'll be automatically buying the iWatch, but because apple need to sell it to me. I'm sure i'm like most people in seeing a watch as being a very personal thing; the kind of watch you wear does make a statement about you; phones are in pockets most of the day, but a watch is right there for everyone to see (including you) 24-7. It has to be "just right" for that individual person. This i see as apples biggest challenge; making something that will fit most peoples taste. I'm really interested to see how they have tried to make something so personal, be more universal.
Personally i'd like to see a completely flexible, self-tightening band where everything is a screen so you can fully customise it; and even go old skool and emulate a strap with textures if you wanted to, but the chances of that are zero... If i wait another 50 years maybe....
Personally i'd like to see a completely flexible, self-tightening band where everything is a screen so you can fully customise it; and even go old skool and emulate a strap with textures if you wanted to, but the chances of that are zero... If i wait another 50 years maybe....
If it's rectangular and doesn't offer great battery life or isn't visually appealing, I might try going with an LG G3 and Moto 360 for a year. I've had iPhones for a years and I'm ready to try something different. Right now, the only thing that'll persuade me to stay with the iPhone 6 is the iWatch.
Does anyone think that Jony Ive, who wears watches that cost thousands of dollars, is going to try and copy the aesthetic of a high end watch for a device that's most likely going to sell for under $400? The Moto Almost 360 reminds me of those home improvement reality shows where the homeowners and a designer are given $1,000 to remodel their home and they try to make the $1,000 look like they spent $10,000. Apple's not going to make something that looks like a knock off of an expensive watch.
I agree. Whatever you might think of Ive, he does not have a tacky gene in his body. I think it will be very different, not a copy of anything currently in the market place.
And I could be completely wrong....
According to a Reddit user, the x207 is a machine that tests buttons at Apple. You're looking at designs for how to fit some iWatch components into a standardized housing that gets loaded into a machine which proceeds to press its buttons thousands of times, checking for effectiveness and component damage. If he's correct, this schematic has nothing to do with the finished iWatch product.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2fsswb/iwatch_leak/ckchuo2
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2fsswb/iwatch_leak/ckchuo2
Hahaha I want a tazor! Or at least the ability to shock someone when shaking hands, some sort of novelty..
If the iWatch looks all techy and nerdy like the Galaxy Gear, and is priced anywhere close to $400, then: WILL. NOT. BUY.
Jony Ive will probably make the iWatch into a triangle
in the video he'll talk about visiting the great pyramids and explain that to reinvent the watch, Apple had to explore the beautiful simplicity of basic geometry