You might have heard the rumors, and they appear to be true. Apple is going to come out with the iWatch sometime in 2014. The articles I am reading all seem to be sighing a collective "meh".
Nobody really knows what it will look like yet, but there are plenty of fan created designs floating around:
These all look cool, but the thing is...who wears watches anymore? I used to have some beautiful watches. I still have a Cartier tank-style watch which I have not worn for at least three years. Why dont people wear watches anymore? Because they have clocks with alarms and programmable reminders on their smartphones. Because people have gotten very comfortable with the idea that the wristwatch is no longer going to leave a soft, sweaty white ring around their wrist where their arm hair has decided to grow into a little forest. Because as the statistics show, mostly adults over age 35 wear watches and not young people which is who this smartwatch is being aimed at.
There are already many smartwatches on the market from Pebble, Sony, and others. They have already come out in the past, and they did not do well. But a smartwatch from Apple will be noticed because it is made by Apple. It will likely connect to iPhones and iPads via bluetooth and might be able to display texts or incoming calling information. It will likely have enough storage for lots of music too. None of the iPhone or iPad apps will fit on such a device, and people buying them will be locked in the walled garden like all other Apple devices. Does this thing stand a chance?
...didnt Apple go here before?
Those are the iPod Nano 6th generation devices, with assorted bands to go with them.
Is anybody really going to try and watch Netflix on a wrist device? Probably not. But it can serve as a health device displaying bio information like heartbeats, body temperature, perhaps as a pedometer, as well as the other functions being rumored like interconnectivity to Apple devices. Therein lies the problem. Will people flock to a wrist device, and if they do will it be from Apple? Android is coming up with one too.
I dont know about the rest of you, but this does not at all excite me. I do not want to go back to wearing a watch on my wrist. I dont need the sweaty white untanned ring around my wrist, and I certainly do not want to work out with something around my wrist.
Analysts are predicting a lukewarm reception for this device, and I agree with that. Thoughts?
Nobody really knows what it will look like yet, but there are plenty of fan created designs floating around:
These all look cool, but the thing is...who wears watches anymore? I used to have some beautiful watches. I still have a Cartier tank-style watch which I have not worn for at least three years. Why dont people wear watches anymore? Because they have clocks with alarms and programmable reminders on their smartphones. Because people have gotten very comfortable with the idea that the wristwatch is no longer going to leave a soft, sweaty white ring around their wrist where their arm hair has decided to grow into a little forest. Because as the statistics show, mostly adults over age 35 wear watches and not young people which is who this smartwatch is being aimed at.
There are already many smartwatches on the market from Pebble, Sony, and others. They have already come out in the past, and they did not do well. But a smartwatch from Apple will be noticed because it is made by Apple. It will likely connect to iPhones and iPads via bluetooth and might be able to display texts or incoming calling information. It will likely have enough storage for lots of music too. None of the iPhone or iPad apps will fit on such a device, and people buying them will be locked in the walled garden like all other Apple devices. Does this thing stand a chance?
...didnt Apple go here before?
Those are the iPod Nano 6th generation devices, with assorted bands to go with them.
Is anybody really going to try and watch Netflix on a wrist device? Probably not. But it can serve as a health device displaying bio information like heartbeats, body temperature, perhaps as a pedometer, as well as the other functions being rumored like interconnectivity to Apple devices. Therein lies the problem. Will people flock to a wrist device, and if they do will it be from Apple? Android is coming up with one too.
I dont know about the rest of you, but this does not at all excite me. I do not want to go back to wearing a watch on my wrist. I dont need the sweaty white untanned ring around my wrist, and I certainly do not want to work out with something around my wrist.
Analysts are predicting a lukewarm reception for this device, and I agree with that. Thoughts?