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TAG Heuer Announces Smartwatch Plans as Threat From Apple Watch Looms
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Smartphones and Apple Watch are gadgets, unlike real watches.
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Yet another one that mistakenly thinks phones and watches are the same.
TIL according to some posters on MacRumors, A tech company entering a tech field (phones) is the same as a tech industry entering the fashion timepiece field.
Apple isn't going to revolutionize the watch industry with the Apple Watch.
Because of the first Apple Watch?
No.
After the third or fourth generation, you might want to think again. At that point it will likely be a standalone device with most of the features of an iPhone.
Just look at what iPod did to the CD-player, iPhone did to the cell phone industry, iPad did to PC industry, etc.
Apple don't bother doing things unless it has a great impact.
Mechanical watches won't go away, but will soon be a thing exclusively for the hipsters.
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It never will go away as someone is dreaming in Cupertino. The Swiss will have to jump on this bandwagon, it won't be easy.
I can tell you don't even see the difference between those products and a watch.
Let me help you - those products are all disposable. While you'll buy Apple Watch after Apple Watch, year after year, I will still have my automatic still working, still beautiful, never outdated, and lasts longer due to not having to "charge" every 8 hours.
Give me a break.
A smart watch by definition is a mobile computer since it has mobile computer parts in it XD. Please tell me why would you make a smart watch that ONLY tells time. Please go away, you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.
So what? This is 2014, soon 2015. People don't mind upgrading their devices, actually, they can't WAIT to do it. My iPhone 5 was working beautifully but I still traded it for an iPhone 6 because it was like $200.
Upgrading is a non-issue, it's actually beneficial since you have a device that is constantly improving.
I don't know what you guys think, but it would be nice if all the other watch companies went out of business and everyone had an Apple watch. 
The fault to your logic is you state that it was the iPod that killed CDs.
This is not the full truth. The MP3 format and high compression of audio while minimal quality loss, while able to maintain small filesizes replaced CD's. the iPod line just so happened to be one of the nicest MP3 players at the time.
Similar to how Cassettes replaced vinyl. And CD's replaced Cassettes. The music industry was advancing not because of the actual media that it was distributed on, but because of the format in which the media.
This isn't quite the same thing as the watch industry. Smartwatches aren't going to suddenly make old watches "slower, larger, ugglier, less efficient". Because the primary use of watches these days is still fashion first. Apple throwing a computer on your wrist isn't the same thing as supplanting RAW audio with a high compressed MP3.
By presenting Apple as a formidable competitor, you are implicitly stating that the concept of mobile computer you are referring to has a general purpose character, instead of a specialized one, as many companies successfully design and implenent.
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Not rushing
That's not a good generalisation. Most people I know take plenty of time. Years. Sometimes because they don't wish to spend the money; sometimes there are other reasons for not rushing.
I expect at least one of those people to have an Apple Watch, without rushing.
Customers who have reverted from Yosemite to Mavericks may disagree.
That's not a good generalisation. Most people I know take plenty of time. Years. Sometimes because they don't wish to spend the money; sometimes there are other reasons for not rushing.
I expect at least one of those people to have an Apple Watch, without rushing.
Customers who have reverted from Yosemite to Mavericks may disagree.
I don't know what you guys think, but it would be nice if all the other watch companies went out of business and everyone had an Apple watch.
That'd be great if the battery lasted more than 17 hours
Yet you fail to realize that a smart watch that only told time would be the same as a normal watch thus not making it a smart watch. That was some hard logic to follow I know. BTW my original comment wasn't in regards to just Apple.
And you fail to realize that I never mentioned a smartwatch that only told time, which would make no sense by definition .
Watch-like, not mobile computer-like
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There's reference to a report in Business Insider magazine, which probably doesn't add credibility to the article, but from comparable reports I get the impression that TAG Heuer is not trying to design a mobile computer-like device better than Apple.
I get the impression that TAG Heuer is co-operatively designing a device that will be primarily watch-like.
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Neither of those timeframes is consistent with what was later reportedly said by Biver.
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reported to have created a smartwatch featuring a classical analogue watch face that will conceal its digital capacities.
If details of the anticipated launch are correct, functions such as incoming call notifications and other alerts will likely be displayed via either physical dials or sweeping hands. "
If details of the anticipated launch are correct, functions such as incoming call notifications and other alerts will likely be displayed via either physical dials or sweeping hands. "
Tag Heuer Leading Race in Luxury Smartwatch Revolution (2014-12-12)
There's reference to a report in Business Insider magazine, which probably doesn't add credibility to the article, but from comparable reports I get the impression that TAG Heuer is not trying to design a mobile computer-like device better than Apple.
I get the impression that TAG Heuer is co-operatively designing a device that will be primarily watch-like.
Supposedly:
TAG Heuer Smartwatch - Business Insider (2014-12-04)
Neither of those timeframes is consistent with what was later reportedly said by Biver.
Tech gets old, but it's not nearly as bad as Apple's 1-2 year mindset when it comes to their phones. If Apple is going to treat their watches like their phones, and just drop support for their 1200$ watch after only a year, it's pretty much a joke at that point.
Your comment makes no sense because it is based on untruth.
Here is a list of all iOS 8 devices:
The iPhone 4S
The iPhone 5
The iPhone 5C
The iPhone 5S
The iPhone 6
The iPhone 6+
The iPod Touch fifth generation
The iPad 2
The iPad with Retina Display
The iPad Air
The iPad Air 2
The iPad Mini
The iPad Mini with Retina Display
The iPad Mini 3
The oldest of which, the 4S, was released on October 14, 2011.
The most recent product that did NOT get updated was the iPhone 4, released on June 24, 2010.... So, your comment is only truthful (albeit neutered) if you change it to:
"If Apple is going to treat their watches like their phones, and just drop support for their 1200$ watch getting new OS updates after only four years & three months, it's pretty much a joke at that point."
Nope.
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Breitling and Rolex are luxury, not high-end brands.
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Breitling and Rolex are luxury, not high-end brands.
After reading all the complaints about how iOS 8 is a terrible experience on pretty much every device except for the latest and second-latest gen, which seems to happen every iteration of iOS, and that Apple goes by a strict yearly release on new iOS devices, I think it's safe to say they're not very good at supporting anything older than that.
Your list is also slightly misleading because it's longer than it looks, if we go by years rather than actual devices. Something to watch out for.
No, a real battery-operated watch can work without recharging for 6 months at a bare minimum, it does not mean that it only tells time.