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It's not that Apple doesn't have the first smart watch but wether it help make the market mainstream. Smartphones existed before iPhone, but we're limited and stuck in a niche market. The same thing with tablets. iPad and iPhone opened those markets to commercial consumers whereas before they were limited to business consumers.
Hopefully the Apple Watch does the same thing, helps make smart watches ore consumer friendly and acceptable.
As good as the Gear, MS Band or the Fit Bit might be, they aren't blowing the market up with sales. The Apple Watch has the potential to make that market really start up. Which will in turn help Samsung, MS, ect with the sales as smart watches become more mainstream due to Apple Watch.
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That being said, I'm not planning to buy any smartwatch in the near future.
Agree 100%; I think you hit the nail on the head. If anybody can take an abstract and niche construct and then conceptualise this into an multi billion dollar success, it is apple. I think Tim had massive shoes to fill after SB, and may i say he has done a rather good job.
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Apple Watch will be a great accessory to iPhone. Just wait a little
Agree, as time goes by, new and innovative uses for the smart watch will manifest, however, especially when the watch is more established and open to 3rd party apps. If one compares to the analogy of apps on the iphone, this resulted in a huge evolution in the usage of phones, almost, dare one say it, revolutionary. I for one use my Iphone very little to make call, rather to read books, journals, read/edit emails, work on pages/numbers, and am almost imprisoned to the battery of medical apps available at my disposable. I i need to check a side effect or a drug dosage, the BNF [British National Formulary] is only a click away. In days of old, one would need to search up and down a ward area to locate a tattered, often out of date copy. Further more, modern apps make calculating complex drugs doses a doddle, from converting drugs in mcg/kg/min into ml/hr, as this may not be uniform across the different icus. There are literally thousands of apps i can name that has revolutionised the way modern medicine is practiced.
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Apple made a bold move with the new macbook, and its in Apple culture that Steve left behind I think that keeps Apple moving forward.
I think it is more than culture and ethics, they have engineered a conceptual paradigm that ultimately results in awesome products, and an awesome customer experience. In this regards, they were true market leaders.
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It's called the "reality distortion field". Tim Cook and the Apple Faithful are known for revisionist history.
Apple is a great company at taking existing trends, making them pretty and beautifull, and being able to sell them to the masses instead of just "geeks".
but they're very rarely first. And I find it interesting how he claims that Apple "invented" the "modern day smartphone" instead of just "smartphone".
He's a very, VERY smart speaker. He knows that by saying this, people who listen to his everyword will eventually drop "Modern day", but not the "smartphone" in their own discussions about devices, which automatically becomes "Apple invented the smartphone". This is the reality distortion field at work. in Prime form.
I really wish Him and Ive and the rest of the Apple top brass would speak in public less.
I can see your point, but your argument is rather speculative.
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I have serious ethical and moral qualms with sales and marketting people who peddle their wares by using falsehoods, inccorect histories, or belittling opponents products to make your own look better.
Apple makes fantastic products.
Their business ethics stink from so many ****ing directions it's disgusting
Living in a capitalist and democratic society has many advantages as well as drawbacks. From time immemorial, companies will try to sell their product by highlighting why it is better than it's rivals, why customers need it.
To simply attest that: "Their business ethics stink from so many ****ing directions" is a little unfair, as this is how the society, and the market has evolved. I think apple's conscience and business ethics is far better than other multi billion dollar corporations.
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Fashion & beauty ... all in the eyes of the beholder!
Indeed it is, and i think the product not only looks marvellous, i can already imagine hundreds of uses for it. I think apple should be applauded on how they have marketed this product, they have subtly teased us, and resisted the temptation to ram the concept down our throats, making one believe this is not another fad phantasmagorical whimsical product that one can do without.
