The iPhone, iPod and iPad are failures just like the Watch (quotes from the past)

[Tycho24]

You seem like you have no life (Or you are a huge apple fanatic) if you are going to spend all this time searching for posts about old products to try and defend a me 2 product.

Except that this isn't an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. This is a rokr e1.

Lol, your insult against him would have more punch if you didn't follow it up with the mother of ignorant statements!

I started worrying that Apple was putting TOO much into this project when they started putting world renown pillars of the medical industry on full time staff... by the score. It seemed like Tim had started collecting them as a hobby & couldn't stop. It was crazy. It became obvious how committed they are to this category. Then they came out with 3 big addendums to their programming tools, in the form of HomeKit, HealthKit, and ApplePay... all clearly built to closely integrate with AppleWatch. Heck, the first slew of Samsung Gear products that were haphazardly thrown out there didn't even get their shoddy heart rate monitor until it was rumoured that Apple's product would feature "up to ten sensors".
Calling AppleWatch a "me too" product is absurd to the point of inarguability. You are simply wrong.

 

[CEmajr]

Excellent post OP.

I for one have learned not to doubt Apple's new products. I doubted the iPhone mainly because of the price. At the time I couldn't fathom why one would pay $600 for a phone (then I saw one of my coworkers with those full websites on his iPhone 3G and it was over).

Then with the iPad I was a part of the "big iPod Touch" crowd. While I still never liked the full sized iPads, I do love the iPad Mini lineup and both iPhone and iPad are major successes. I believe Watch will follow as well and I'll be buying it day 1.

 

[Tanegashima]

Likewise, almost every time Apple releases a product that sells like crazy, there seems to be a previous time when Jobs or Cook dissed that very product.

• "What are these things good for besides surfing the Web on the toilet?" - Jobs dissing tablets to his staff, 2003
  
  
• "There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. We look at the (idea of a) tablet, and we think it is going to fail.” - Jobs dissing touchscreen tablets at All Things Digital, 2003
  
  
• "I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen." - Jobs dissing video players to Mossberg 2003
  
  
• No native SDK, because third party iPhone apps could bring down the network - Jobs dissing native apps, 2007
  
  
• "The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read any more.” - Jobs dissing the Kindle or any book or magazine apps, NYTimes 2008
  
  
• "There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps." - Jobs dissing smaller tablets, Apple quarterly earnings call, 2010
  
  
• "We've put a lot of thinking into screen size and we think we've picked the right one." - Cook on 4" iPhone, dissing larger displays, 2013
  

(And all of Jobs' stylus quotes might soon join the above list.)



Yes, it is. So lay off the Apple customers. If Jobs and Cook can be spectacularly wrong, so can they

Whatever you do or think... it's never perfect.

Back in the gym, my personal trainer is UPSET because the iPhone 6 is too big, and the 5's were prettier.

My girlfriend thinks 3:2 screens (before iPhone 5) look much better than 16:9.

 

[iCore24]

Here is Tim acknowledging the fact all their products weren't made into hits, they grew to it after people saw the potential they have.

"We weren’t first on the MP3 player; we weren’t first on the tablet; we weren’t first on the smartphone. But we were arguably the first modern smartphone, and we will be the first modern smartwatch—the first one that matters."

"People didn’t realize they had to have an iPod, and they really didn’t realize they had to have the iPhone. And the iPad was totally panned. Critics asked, "Why do you need this?" Honestly, I don’t think anything revolutionary that we have done was predicted to be a hit when released. It was only in retrospect that people could see its value. Maybe this will be received the same way."

 

[Multiverse223]

i thought the ipod and ipad were amazing when they were released. bought them both first day they came out. this apple watch... not so much.

apple watch will be a failure because it doesnt fill a need well enough. jobs saw a need with ipod and ipad and filled it. tim cook just needed to get a new product out that serves no real need.

What if, in 5 years, you can non-invasively see blood glucose, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and hydration levels? If you don't understand the reality of how groundbreaking that would be, then it's no wonder you think it's useless. I must say that no, it would never work on an iPhone, it must, MUST, be attached to the body to constantly read, or its next to useless. This is the main reason for a wearable. Biometrics. In the future disease will be far more easily researched, diagnosed, treated, and most importantly, prevented, due to wearables. Granted everyone is fearful of their information being monitored, but that's why Apple makes such adamant claims of not wanting user information. This is just another reason Apple will win. Who're you going to trust to have this information...Apple, which doesn't sell information, or Google, who's entire product is the user, and their information.

 

[sportsfrk214]

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to get an Watch or not, but it seems clear to me that this product has the potential (key word) to change the way we interact with technology and how we integrate it into our daily lives.

The iPhone, along with other smartphones, really started a fundamental shift in how we treat technology. When I was younger, you saw very few people using phones. Now everywhere you go, people are tethered to their phones. There is zero doubt that smartphones have altered human behavior, and have fundamentally changed how we communicate and interact. And while in some ways the phone has led to increased social interaction in terms of connecting with people when you are not physically with them, it has changed physical interactions.

Face to face interactions with people have been altered because of the intrusion of the phone. We are constantly pulling out our phones to look at them for notifications and what not. There are times where human interaction is lessened or almost eliminated because of the attention paid to cell phones. They have given us the ability to access more information than ever before, but at the cost of diverting our attention.

I see the watch for what it is, an accessory to your phone. It's not meant to be a standalone device with all the functions of your phone. It's meant to serve as a small window into what's going on in your phone, and thus your world. I'd say only about 25% of the notifications I get on my phone require my immediate attention, yet I need to take out my phone 100% of the time to see what they are. This process distracts you from the people around you. With the watch, you will be able to see everything at a glance, and quickly dismiss anything that can be dealt with later. And for me, that 25% of the time that does require my attention, it seems that at least some of that stuff will be able to be handled from the watch itself.

I see the watch as a way to compromise between two ends of the spectrum. On one end you have no phone at all, which can enhance your physical interactions with people but decrease your connectiveness. On the other end you have the phone, which increases your connectiveness but can have a negative impact on those physical interactions. The watch offers a medium where you can remain incredibly connected in the way we need to do with the current times, but not at the expense of negatively altering the way we interact with our surroundings, including people. This is really just a long winded way of saying that the watch will allow us to more quickly and efficiently deal with the things we need to do on our phones, in order to allow people to pay more attention to those around them, and to regain some of that interpersonal communication that we lost with the rise of the smartphone. And in that endeavor, the watch has the ability to make a really huge impact.

My 2 cents

 

[Blakjack]

apple watch will be a failure because it doesnt fill a need well enough. jobs saw a need with ipod and ipad and filled it. tim cook just needed to get a new product out that serves no real need.

The Apple Watch doesn't fill a need........

they said that about the iPhone and iPad. people just don't learn to wait and see before they make comments do they?

its funny you can be so confident making that statement when the watch clearly was built to serve as a bridge to information sent to your phone. I don't know about you but my phone isn't always next to me and i hate fishing the thing out of my pocket every 5 minutes just find that I've got some meaningless text or email.

There's a story on the front page of Macrumors that talks about how Apple creates devices consumers didn't even know they needed until they either bought them or saw someone else using them.