Not sure I get your point there. If you want a watch which updates the location of your kids in real time and is always available for you to call them (i.e. always attached to a GSM base station), it will need to include an always-on radio in the same way as a mobile phone (essentially what you are describing is a small basic smartphone attached to their wrist).
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Not sure I get your point there. If you want a watch which updates the location of your kids in real time and is always available for you to call them (i.e. always attached to a GSM base station), it will need to include an always-on radio in the same way as a mobile phone (essentially what you are describing is a small basic smartphone attached to their wrist).
Hard to determine if this question is serious or not. In the past close to 20 years I don't think we can point to many hardline abandoning of a product line by Apple. I'll give the poster the benefit of a doubt.
Apple Watch isn't going to be discontinued or abandoned. Expect the Apple Watch to have the same kind of update cycle as the Apple TV. There's plenty of things that CAN be done on the watch, especially comparing Apple Watch S0 and watchOS 1 against Apple Watch S2 and watchOS 3. The newest hardware and software seems to have put a lot of wood behind the arrow.
If you want to call Apple Watch a "flop" and should be discontinued that's fine. It's worth noting though that at least in Dallas I see far more people with Apple Watch then most other kinds of smart watches. It's actually getting to the point where day to day I think I see as many as normal watches, but I maybe slightly off. Wearables aren't going anywhere.
Developers who do the best with watchOS are those who understand the context of the Use Case. Same thing happened when smart phones came out. Can anyone remember Steve Ballmar saying how bad the iPhone was because it didn't have a keyboard? I know college students who take notes on their iPhones now. You can go into most coffee houses and see others editing documents from their phones while in line.
Expect the longer term Use Case for the Apple Watch to be in line with a Motorola Razr. The Motorola Razr did exactly what it was suppose to do within it's context. It couldn't do much on it's own, but it augmented other tools very well.
Compare the original Apple TV to Gen 3. More so do the comparison with Gen 4.
Apple Watch isn't going to be discontinued or abandoned. Expect the Apple Watch to have the same kind of update cycle as the Apple TV. There's plenty of things that CAN be done on the watch, especially comparing Apple Watch S0 and watchOS 1 against Apple Watch S2 and watchOS 3. The newest hardware and software seems to have put a lot of wood behind the arrow.
If you want to call Apple Watch a "flop" and should be discontinued that's fine. It's worth noting though that at least in Dallas I see far more people with Apple Watch then most other kinds of smart watches. It's actually getting to the point where day to day I think I see as many as normal watches, but I maybe slightly off. Wearables aren't going anywhere.
Developers who do the best with watchOS are those who understand the context of the Use Case. Same thing happened when smart phones came out. Can anyone remember Steve Ballmar saying how bad the iPhone was because it didn't have a keyboard? I know college students who take notes on their iPhones now. You can go into most coffee houses and see others editing documents from their phones while in line.
Expect the longer term Use Case for the Apple Watch to be in line with a Motorola Razr. The Motorola Razr did exactly what it was suppose to do within it's context. It couldn't do much on it's own, but it augmented other tools very well.
Compare the original Apple TV to Gen 3. More so do the comparison with Gen 4.
