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Tim Cook Discusses Steve Jobs, Apple's Rivals, and Calls Apple Watch 'The First Modern Smartwatch'
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Yes. Perhaps the creepiest "feature" I've ever heard of in an electronic device.
This Becoming Steve Jobs book is looking like an opportunity for Apple to rewrite history. I don't see how they could give access to the author without wanting something in return.
I'm not even going to bother responding to those other posts because this nails it.
I think those who say "there's no use case for the watch like there was for other Apple products" simply don't see a use case for themselves.
Are you serious? Before the iPod, larger capacity MP3 players were ugly, plastic pieces of junk shaped and sized like CD players. They had slow and confusing software that made it an excruciating chore to find a song or find a desired spot on a track. On a long track, for example an hour long DJ mix, fast forward was so slow that it was virtually impossible to skip ahead to a desired spot. The slightest movement caused the music to pause for several seconds because the manufacturers didn't think to add a decent memory buffer to mask the effect. Artist and song names were a mess because the software available to manage it used varying standards and did a poor job of stripping out junk and focusing on the desired data points. And the crude, low resolution, low contrast displays were difficult to read and routinely truncated artist, song, and album names.
Anyone who looks at the two products below and concludes they're barely any different from each other needs to have his eyes (or head) examined. Incidentally, this Creative Labs player, which I owned, cost $500 when it was introduced.
No, it's called iteration. Same reason why the first iPhone (which was fantastic at the time) still took a few years to address the additional features people wanted.
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A lot of people do see the need for the Apple Watch. You may not be among them. You're among the many who don't see the need.
The people who didn't see the need for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod were quite vocal, but turned out to also be quite wrong.
And what do haters do?
That's right!!
Never has a Taylor Swift song been more true....
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Nope, those people didn't exist according to K995. Everyone loved all of those devices and thought they were useful even before they were released.
The Apple Watch is completely different. It's nothing like any other device Apple has released. They decided they were sick of success and decided to design a flop....ya know, just to shake things up
#SARCASM
So the Apple Watch only needs five to six percent market share for its introduction to be considered "very good".
“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular. Innovations like automatic transmission and power steering and things that you didn’t care about in a truck as much started to become paramount in cars. … PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people.”
-Steve Jobs, D10 Conference 2010
What is the use of that, practically? Can you come up with some practical uses? Sending your HR data to another watch in real time? To another device - sure I can understand the usages, but another Apple Watch?
Mio / other devices can send in real time, HR Data to a smart phone / tablet ( iPad ) and have the data displayed also.. which is kind of useful.
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They say "its not a laptop replacement (what apple had claimed) but besides that its great and has an even greater potential."
"However, there are many other people (both in the youth-oriented demographic groups as well as in some senior segments), where the iPad directly targets their needs."
"Filed to: DISSENTING OPINION"
LMAO sorry your own source states that his opinion of not liking the ipad is "DISSENTING"
Again these are far from bad reviews, there will always be people who don't like a product.
Lets not look at some cherry picked reviews?
A roundup of reviews for example:
http://www.wired.com/2010/04/roundup-ipad-reviews/
THE EARLY REVIEWS for the iPad are in, and theyre certainly going to make Steve Jobs happy.
Apple handed out iPads to a few select publications a couple of days early, and the critical consensus is overwhelmingly positive.
Some of the big sites:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/04/ipad-review/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/27/apple-ipad-tablet-first-review
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3640/apples-ipad-the-anandtech-review
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Al overwhelmingly possitive.
Its sad to see a CEOof such a big company feeling the need to simply make up BS to plug the latest gadget. To me it simply shows apple itself is uncertain.
Be careful....you just invalidated the work of millions of people who do their jobs on iOS/OSX devices.....
Oh it's not just me who thinks this.
Apple is like the company selecting the paint, choosing the curtains, what type of wood colour for the floorboards, and should be have LED lights or not, and if so what colours.
Meanwhile Microsoft is making the steel and concrete and building the actual house.
I know both sides have a role to play in life.
But Tim is a toy maker. Nice toys, but Apple could vanish overnight, and the entire business world would hiccup a bit, buy some PC's to put photoshop on and get back to work after a few days.
Take Microsoft, PC's and all windows products away and watch the planet grind to a halt & get thrown into chaos.
That's not to say I don't like Apple products and appreciate build quality, but I also can admit Apple isn't exactly needed.
Shhhhhhh, careful, you're going to get the fanboys mad. In their mind, Apple invented EVERYTHING.
I don't see a ton of utility in this particular feature but it's evident that it's meant to provide emotional satisfaction rather than serve some purely practical purpose.
When the iPhone came out, at first people didn't fully understand why they derived so much actual pleasure from performing relatively mundane tasks on them. It took a few years for interaction design experts to make the observation that iOS was chock full of "micro-interactions" whose primary purpose seemed to be to provide a tiny burst of pleasure every time someone used them. These included subtle little animations like the rubber band effect when scrolling to the end of a list. Every time someone experienced one of these they triggered a tiny burst of dopamine that made the experience pleasurable and made the user want to experience it again.
I suspect that the Apple Watch's heartbeat sending feature falls into this category.
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I think that has more to do with how utterly mired in old software and hardware the business sector is than how good Apple would be as a replacement.
Speaking from experience, the corporate sector is notoriously horrible at moving forward.
And I think relegating Apple to "toy maker" is a huge mistake. They don't have the luxury of already having everyone sucked in. Their partnership with IBM has been a wild success from what I've heard and read. It takes time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple's enterprise market share continue to grow.
You underestimate their mobile footprint in enterprise.
BS, the market was ten times what apple sold, that simply shows people didn't really care about the ipod. They only started to care AFTER apple changed the product and dropped the price.
More BS, why do people feel the need to do this I always wonder?
http://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone-sales-to-end-users-since-2007/
122million units SOLD, thats NOT a niche market.
I already said the same here months ago: apple seems to be marketing this as a fashion product. Making it almost certain I won't be getting it. And I do hope apple doesn't follow this trough with other products . I want functional not a bling bling fashion statement.
Doubt that, apple will always be mass market and that will always be of putting for some.
Changing just about every lock? Gov using this? Not in first couple of years.
People who look to spec sheets and practicality to make sense of why Apple is successful will fail.
It is in the overall experience and in the pleasure one gets from using the devices that cause people to continue buying and using. Small things like you mention. Attention to detail.
I think as the Apple Watch is disseminated among the masses, we'll begin to realize all the little nuances and intricacies Apple installed in the user experience that will make it the most popular wearable on the market.
How bout this...Send your heartbeat to your doctor if you've got palpitations or perhaps a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Doctor can see immediately if you're in a rapid ventricular response. Bam!
Perhaps I should market that one...
At the time, the smartphone market was 120million units .Appel was a lot smaller, times were a lot different. Current smartwatch is around 5-10million if apple can repeat what it did with the IPAD (sell about as much as the rest combined) then yes, succes.