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Tag Heuer Partnering With Google and Intel to Build Connected Smartwatch
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Go into a high street jeweller and look at the Tag Heuer Carrera watches on display. Though not true high end watches, the quality is leagues above any other Android Wear watch that we've seen so far.
Not so sure about the quality of the software though.
Is this not the same company that several months back said they weren't worried about an Apple watch and that it is not even in the same market they are in?
Within a year of the Watchs release you will see EVERYBODY and their brother jumping on the bandwagon Apple has sent rolling down the street. Without even being available for sale yet the Watch has already commenced disrupting yet another market.
Once again the naysayers will have egg on their faces. But that never stops them so who cares. Im sure theyll come up with some stupidity as usual.
"Chris DeSalvos reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought Were going to have to start over.
What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties, DeSalvo said. Its just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.
Google Engineer in 2007
With Android Wear coming to iOS I'm glad we have the choice.
However, this sort of knee jerk reaction rarely leads to a good product.
However, this sort of knee jerk reaction rarely leads to a good product.
It good that they are trying, I think.
But I have a hard time believing that a committee of companies is going to produce a very good smart watch... the computer hardware, the case and band, and software each by a different company. It probably won't come together.
But I have a hard time believing that a committee of companies is going to produce a very good smart watch... the computer hardware, the case and band, and software each by a different company. It probably won't come together.
what I see holding back this watch is the software. Android just never seems a s polished as iOS. With the current offerings of Smart Watch the Apple Watch is the best it seems, from fit and finish to the software. We will see when it is in the hand of normal consumers. I am sticking for a while to my loved mechanical watches.
It's still a piece of technology that will be outdated in a year whether everyone and their sister has one or not. It will still not be something you hand down to your kids. It's still not a watch it's a piece of tech no matter what company makes one or it's price bracket. There are many in this world that will not buy one at all because of what it is the opposite is also true. The customer of luxury watches heck even watches like Sinn are not smart watch customers and Tag making one isn't going to change that nor are those people going away.
No, it's not clear at all what they're planning to do. I thought it was interesting that the press release, if you follow the link, states that the smart watch wil not be made in Switzerland.
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Good. Google is a great, innovative company and this will encourage more innovation, better products, cheaper options, and wider adoption.
And people have found code in Android Wear that shows that it will work with iOS, therefore making Android Wear multi platform.
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But that's the thing, it's not a crappy operating system. So let's leave the bias at the door please.
Yes but since when did Apple care what their customers think. Apparently now Google doesn't care what customers think either.
Totally agree. I may think that Smart Watches could be this generation's Parachute Pants, but Apple has sure lit a fire under the whole idea.
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It appears that Apple is transforming yet another industry, without even having shipped an actual product!
That, my friends, is industrial power.
That, my friends, is industrial power.
They have to care a little bit both sell lots of product every year and have managed to create religious following.
I love my Tag Heuer watch which I've had for 14 years.
Tag isn't high-end compared to some of the £50,000+ watches around, but with its less expensive watches selling for probably four to five times the Apple Watch price, the company is certainly not low-end, so why would it want to associate itself with Google/Android technology?
Tag isn't high-end compared to some of the £50,000+ watches around, but with its less expensive watches selling for probably four to five times the Apple Watch price, the company is certainly not low-end, so why would it want to associate itself with Google/Android technology?
Isn't a watch at its most basic is surely to provide you with accurate time? If the rest is proving you are in the lap pf luxury, the Apple's watch range addresses that well and truly.
At the end of it all the Swiss watch makers should be feeling very threatened. They can not match what Apple can provide in hardware, and ecosystem.
So they are no doubt saying among themselves:
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
At the end of it all the Swiss watch makers should be feeling very threatened. They can not match what Apple can provide in hardware, and ecosystem.
So they are no doubt saying among themselves:
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
I think you need to poke your head into this decade. Apple has altered and disrupted enough markets by now that you should understand they are merging fashion and luxury with technology more than ever now. There are far too many wealthy people in the world to be content with owning just another piece of technology. They want to stand out and express themselves in a way that most others cannot. Maybe they will hand down their Apple Watch to heir children and maybe they won't. Who cares? It does not inform any purchasing decisions they make today.