The Apple Watch.
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/weara...ease-date-specs-features-apple-looks-reinvent
This device is going to be available in every way traditional watches are, in terms of style. Tank watches, sport watches, girly watches, gold and silver and perhaps jewel encrusted ones later. Apple will become the next Fossil Watch. But wait...who is wearing watches these days? In the summertime, watches are incompatible with $50.00 tanning salon tans, and unless this watch is dust and waterproof AND in range of your iPhone (I will get to that later), this is going to just be a very expensive cheap digital watch, made with very expensive materials and costing a lot of money.
To be fair, this device will be loaded with sensors which can detect pulse, act as a pedometer, access functions on the phone, give vibratory feedback, and lots of other tricks. But in order to use that stuff you have to also have an iPhone that will support it. I hope nobody thought Apple was going to open the gates to the outside from it's walled garden, did they?
I think they are going to sell a ton of these watches. And because they will only work with an iPhone, the value of iPhones will be enhanced by the presence of the watch, as well as give owners an extra dollop of cred in the Apple world of things.
Although the phone industry seems to think that wearable tech is the next big thing, I am doubtful. Smartwatches like the Pebble and Samsung's own Gear smartwatch do not seem appropriate to every lifestyle. I do not mind picking up my phone to read messages or make calls or use navigation. I do not like the feeling of a watch on my wrist every day, and I have not worn one in more than 10 years on a regular basis. I own a couple of nice watches I use for dress occasions, but I do not see the need to wear them when there is a clock on my phone even when the screen is locked.
Anyway, the Apple Watch is here. She arrived fashionably late to the party, but I think she will be the Belle of the Ball in wearable tech.
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/weara...ease-date-specs-features-apple-looks-reinvent
This device is going to be available in every way traditional watches are, in terms of style. Tank watches, sport watches, girly watches, gold and silver and perhaps jewel encrusted ones later. Apple will become the next Fossil Watch. But wait...who is wearing watches these days? In the summertime, watches are incompatible with $50.00 tanning salon tans, and unless this watch is dust and waterproof AND in range of your iPhone (I will get to that later), this is going to just be a very expensive cheap digital watch, made with very expensive materials and costing a lot of money.
To be fair, this device will be loaded with sensors which can detect pulse, act as a pedometer, access functions on the phone, give vibratory feedback, and lots of other tricks. But in order to use that stuff you have to also have an iPhone that will support it. I hope nobody thought Apple was going to open the gates to the outside from it's walled garden, did they?
I think they are going to sell a ton of these watches. And because they will only work with an iPhone, the value of iPhones will be enhanced by the presence of the watch, as well as give owners an extra dollop of cred in the Apple world of things.
Although the phone industry seems to think that wearable tech is the next big thing, I am doubtful. Smartwatches like the Pebble and Samsung's own Gear smartwatch do not seem appropriate to every lifestyle. I do not mind picking up my phone to read messages or make calls or use navigation. I do not like the feeling of a watch on my wrist every day, and I have not worn one in more than 10 years on a regular basis. I own a couple of nice watches I use for dress occasions, but I do not see the need to wear them when there is a clock on my phone even when the screen is locked.
Anyway, the Apple Watch is here. She arrived fashionably late to the party, but I think she will be the Belle of the Ball in wearable tech.