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Why is it that every time there is news about a rumored product from Apple, most posts always say I have zero interest in this product or who on earth would be interested in that, it's such a bad move by Apple etc etc. It's exactly the same every single time without fail....it's like a hamster wheel!

Yet when it's released the same people say 'Oh it's amazing' or normally because of their pride, they state they still have no interest and were right in their assumptions but a few months later when all the fuss has died down, they sneak out and buy the very product they slated....bizarre mentality!

because Apple creates products that people want, and some people don't want to admit that because they think admitting that means they're sheep or some other 2nd grade reason not to like something.
 
I'll buy one on launch day

Bought an iPad on launch day in 2010. My collection of Apple products is complete at this time. I have Apple TV, Airport Extreme, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iPad 1, iPad 3, iPhone 5 and iPod Touch.

I would buy more Apple gear, but what more do I need? An iWatch would be a perfect complement to the iPhone. It would be healthier for conversations as people would not need to get their phone out to check messages etc.
 
Bought an iPad on launch day in 2010. My collection of Apple products is complete at this time. I have Apple TV, Airport Extreme, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iPad 1, iPad 3, iPhone 5 and iPod Touch.

I would buy more Apple gear, but what more do I need? An iWatch would be a perfect complement to the iPhone. It would be healthier for conversations as people would not need to get their phone out to check messages etc.

How about a life-size Steve Jobs doll. You can hug him every night as you go to sleep. Yummm...
 
I wouldn't mind having a watch like this for dress.

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Ouch, gold, mother of pearl, roman numerals and animal leather look, the worst of all combined.... :D

and while it's not even a 10th of the price, I love this

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I have 13 or 14 watches, my favorite one is

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It's all a matter of taste (I am fully aware of the quality difference, it does nothing for me)

And that's where I see the major challenge for any manufacturer of smart watches. I don't wear watches for their pure functionality, I like to match them to whatever I'm wearing. They are a short term outfit supplement and not a fulltime arm device. I don't take my phone out of my pocket more than 5 or 6 times a day, so why would I be wearing a watch to alert me those few times... I can't imagine that Apple really will come up with a device like this that will lack so many features that people who like watches, will demand.
Neither Applescruff nor me could be catered to right now with such a thing.
 
If there was truely no benefit to having it on your wrist then we wouldn't have wrist watches in the first place. The pocket watch far predates them.

You don't interact with a watch though. You LOOK at it, that's the big difference. You also don't need much screen realestate to display the time, but in say a video or with a touch screen interface you want something bigger than a 1 inch screen.

I couldn't disagree more.

1. Exactly--aren't all Apple products fashion accessories to some extent? Yes, they have amazing hardware and are legitimately great products, but you can't convince me that a good percentage of people don't only have Apple products due to them being a status symbol. Especially among the younger age groups.

The point was that Apple products do not work as clothing. While as a peice of technology they work,, and they may be beautiful as that they have no fashion quality whatsoever. Wearable Apple products would just look like a dorky bluetooth ear peice. If Apple made a dorky bluetooth ear peice it would still be a dorky bluetooth ear peice. Clothing and technology design are completely seperate entities that do not overlap, and when you mix them they clash for the most part.

Apple products are not status symbols, because they don't indicate any real status. A gold plated Apple product is a status symbol. A regular one no.

They are just highly desriable products due to their reputation for design and quality. People who think they impart any status even to younger age groups are kidding themselves. The only thing owning an Apple product says about the owner is that they have great taste, or for younger kids that they have parents that won't buy them junk.


2. They already had tablets before the iPad. They already had MP3 players before the iPod. They already had cell phones before the iPhone. Apple was the first to do it right. This will happen with the iWatch too.

I've changed my mind a little on this, but only because I thought of a new way of doing it that would be a departure from all the terrible iWatch concepts floating around.

The product would have to be small and have a very unobtrusive design to not look completely lame like Google Glass (aka Segway 2).

If it's small the touch interface will be very limited like the last gen ipod nano, except it will probably be longer and have a single row of say 3 icons with some padding on the side. With a curved display so it fits better on your wrist. Black anodized or ceramic with a black rubber strap or silver with a white rubber strap.

It would also have to be water proof and have saphire glass like all high quality watches or you'd have a lot of issues.

Ok so you have an awesome product so far, that doesn't work to do anything except check messages and play music, take movies/photos, etc which are great features. It would be a great product like this. It could work stand alone as a music player, camera, watch, siri wifi device, or with a phone.

The biggest problem though is, pairing with with your phone. If it can't work 150 feet away then people won't rely on it for text or phone notifications and they will still have to keep their phone in their pocket. Which means they could just as easily use their phone, which will significantly decrease it's usefullness. So the innovation here is that the watch would have it's own cellular antenna, meaning it would transfer data to and from your phone even if you leave your phone at home. Wireless charging overnight would also help

It would have no keyboard, and only use voice recognition but work fully as a phone both in speakerphone and with a set of earbuds.

Now that's a product that would sell. However if they do it any other way it would easily be ruined, which is probably what will happen, if they release anything at all.


3. It's not intended to replace a phone. I can see it having "watchlet" apps which simply extend the functionality of any given iPhone app. The watch would pair with your iPhone and provide specific functionality that app developers could include via their actuall App Store package. I can even envision a little label on the App Store that says "includes a watchlet" or something like that.

I think wearable technology is the next huge industry.

No it's not, because every manufacturer will try to pack all these ridiculous features into some oversized peice of junk. Nobody will buy these products until they do it right, and Apple doesn't release half baked products, which means you need a small form factor with a very long and thin edge to edge curved screen , you need it to be durable with saphire glass and waterproof, and you need it to have a cellular antenna so it doesn't have to be paired through bluetooth to improve it's usability, and it needs wireless charging.

This is a very hard product to develop correctly and a very easy product to screw up completely. I predict a ton of companies releasing failed or niche products.
 
Ouch, gold, mother of pearl, roman numerals and animal leather look, the worst of all combined.... :D

and while it's not even a 10th of the price, I love this

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I have 13 or 14 watches, my favorite one is

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It's all a matter of taste (I am fully aware of the quality difference, it does nothing for me)

And that's where I see the major challenge for any manufacturer of smart watches. I don't wear watches for their pure functionality, I like to match them to whatever I'm wearing. They are a short term outfit supplement and not a fulltime arm device. I don't take my phone out of my pocket more than 5 or 6 times a day, so why would I be wearing a watch to alert me those few times... I can't imagine that Apple really will come up with a device like this that will lack so many features that people who like watches, will demand.
Neither Applescruff nor me could be catered to right now with such a thing.

If there really is going to be an iWatch, I think it would be more of a sport watch. I just can't see it being a dress watch. I'll wait until I actually see one before I pass judgement. I also like these for sport watches.

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This survey is meaningless without some controls. For instance do people, on average, give similar answers for any new product? Are these trends cyclic and they just happened to test on the same nadir?

Without that additional information the survey is like a three legged stool short one leg: it ain't gunna stand.
 
Ouch, gold, mother of pearl, roman numerals and animal leather look, the worst of all combined.... :D

and while it's not even a 10th of the price, I love this

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Beautiful but a bit feminine. Butch up and try this one instead :D

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My approach is not closed-minded. The iWatch is simply a stupid product. Just because apple adds an "i" to a pre-existing product doesn't make it "magical".

The iwatch is easily the dumbest thing I have ever heard of in my entire life. It is literally useless.

So what you're saying is that you want to be using a phone for the rest of your life.

As I've previously stated, imagine if having so much information was as easy and natural as looking at the time. Wouldn't that be great?

Now you are completely dismissing an idea before you even see it, showing that you're not willing to have a change. And that you probably want to stick with phones for the rest of eternity, even when the technology is there to accomplish things more quicker.
 
I'm still not convinced of the appeal of such a device; I mean, I liked the square nano as a concept, its OS was just too crippled as it would have been nice for it to be a full-featured, if tiny, iOS device for getting custom apps on there.

However, the scope for it just isn't on par with the iPhone; I mean, even the large smart phones of today are still on the small side when it comes to a lot of games, which means a smart watch isn't likely to have much appeal for games at all. The main applications that it will benefit from are things like fitness apps such as pedometers, maybe remote controls for things.

But at the same time, people aren't surprised by mobile phones needing to be charged, but a smart watch could lose appeal quickly if it can't last for a very long time; I mean a simple digital watch today can last for close to a decade on a single battery, how long will a smart watch last for? There's also the issue that the iPhone, or rather mobile phones in general, are already killing off watches since there's not much reason to wear a watch if you carry a phone everywhere that can tell you the time just as effectively.


If the "iWatch" had tight integration with an iPhone, then I suppose Apple could get away with giving it tiny capacity and a very, very power efficient processor, so it would function more as a convenience accessory for the iPhone, with a handful of power-conscious apps of its own, but that seems too much of a niché application to be worth developing. But if they make it too powerful it might have early appeal that could end up being mired in issues such as short battery life or the screen being too small to do anything really revolutionary.


I don't know; I saw the appeal of the iPad straight away, as the iPhone was just begging for a big brother for letting people do more without the full jump to a laptop. Meanwhile I'm still not overly convinced by the iPad Mini (if full iPad size is such an issue, then an iPhone/iPod Touch still seems the better option to me). I just don't see how functional a smart watch can be without sacrificing too much.
 
You don't interact with a watch though. You LOOK at it, that's the big difference. You also don't need much screen real estate to display the time, but in say a video or with a touch screen interface you want something bigger than a 1 inch screen.

You clearly don't understand the purpose of a smart watch. Try looking at the Sony version below and it will become clearer how the iWatch would work and why people would buy it:

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/
 
I find it interesting that 10 years ago, it would probably have gone like this:

"Hey look, my phone can show me the internet and do email!"

"Just use a PC for that, dummy!"

Seriously, in order to innovate, such cynicism would have to be removed. A watch, if you actually think about it, can serve for a very rapid way for data presentation without the need to pull something out of your pocket, and without putting something on your face (google glass).

The fact is that you're having a very close-minded approach, and you aren't thinking about the advantages it may present, as you're still stuck with the modern day idea of a watch. You don't want to think about what it can do.
lol close-minded approach. iWatch or whatever its going to be, is a totally useless and stupid thing. Just look at pebble - i really dont see not one single thing that would make me want to buy it. These watches are orgasms for geeks and nobody else.

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I don't wear watches for their pure functionality, I like to match them to whatever I'm wearing.

and thats the whole point about watches. Sooner apple realises that people wear watches for design and fashion purpose and not for some "uuu i can check the weather on it!", the better their stock will be
 
Of course it will sell, the only difference this time is that other companies won't let them get a head start.

Yeah. Samsung has 25 models ready for production and the one that's most Apple-like will be put into production as soon as iwatch is announced.:D

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I wonder if Apple changed iPod nano's size so it can differenciate with the iWatch:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
The iWatch is just a rumor...

The needed tech for the market to be had is not quite there yet, but the market opportunity is within a couple years I'd say. Right now, it's a bother to Apple... and a mere rumor.

And, if Apple puts this into production sometime sooner than later(even though this iWatch is hocus pocus), they betttttter be verrrrry careful. This could hurt them in so many ways in the mid to long-term.

The one thing Steve would know - the iWatch would make them less cool in due time. Wearable device technology may be on the rise, but not for the market segment that got Apple where it is today.

If Apple wants to remain at the top, they need to get into the 'home' next. They have plenty of portable technologies that people love, but moreover, they can be harnessed by having Apple products inside the house... the iTV is the next biggest thing.

This is where Apple leverages their ecosystem once again over the competition. One day in the future, I see the iWatch being feasible as chip manu's upgrade their GPS chips to not need A-GPS inside portable devices - when this happens, you will see a market opportunity for an iWatch. But, at the moment, we have a battery life issue & other issues, and one will have to wait till tech advances at Broadcom/Qualcomm/etc.

Till then... it's all just a litttttle rumor.
 
lol close-minded approach. iWatch or whatever its going to be, is a totally useless and stupid thing. Just look at pebble - i really dont see not one single thing that would make me want to buy it. These watches are orgasms for geeks and nobody else.

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and thats the whole point about watches. Sooner apple realises that people wear watches for design and fashion purpose and not for some "uuu i can check the weather on it!", the better their stock will be

Your name summarises your comment and attitude. I mean, did you see how useless tablets were before the ipad?
 
Apple has really fallen down the tubes if people are expecting something as stupid as an "iWatch" to be a big seller.

iWatch Owner: "Hey look everyone! My watch shows me the weather and I can even check stock quotes!!!"

Everyone else: "Just use your phone, dummy."

they'll have to make it so it replaces the phone
 
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