Apple iWatch: Coming soon, runs iOS, to earn mucho mazuma
Reminiscent of the hypegasm that preceded the releases of the iPhone in 2007 and iPad in 2010, rumors of Apple's impending "iWatch" are flooding the intertubes, with the latest being that it will be released this year, will run iOS, and will rake in gobs and gobs of cash for a company that has seen its stock take a relentless …
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"luxury-watch biz"
Magical and revolutionary as these holy watches may be, I don't think that any ridiculously rich person is going to trade in their Girard Perregaux for one.
Re: "luxury-watch biz"
Well, it will depend if companies like GP, Cartier, IWC have the lawyers to defend themselves against the IP lawsuits for stealing the invention of " a portable device, in a removable way attached to a limb or other body part, serving the purpose of displaying curtailed information of or about one or more types of data".
Get your Rolex now, it might be outlawed next year.
Re: "luxury-watch biz"
You mean my Patel-Philippe don't you?
Re: "luxury-watch biz"
Or if it were a real one, perhaps a Patek-Philippe? :)
"You mean my Patel-Philippe don't you?"
No...that one is made in India. Not at Foxconn in China.
Mine's the one that smells like Curry.
Doesn't this already exist?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android
except this one works with both iOS and android
In fairness...
As a Pebble owner, I have to say that right now, Pebble isn't quite living up to its promise, since the SDK has not yet shipped. The Pebble will still give you the alerts from your phone, but much of what was promised is not yet available.
So it is a bit of a horse race between when Pebble will ship the SDK, and Apple will ship their device.
That said: right now, all the promise for the iWatch are about like the Dilbert cartoon (http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-12-13/?Page=2): "And our product has a thirty terabit RAM cache [...] and it is capable of detecting tachion [sic] field emissions [....]".
Re: In fairness...
"The Pebble will still give you the alerts from your phone,..."
Seriously? You really need to have a wrist divice to tell you that you have alerts on your phone? How completely asinine.
Another P.T. Barnum moment.
I like the idea of the watch, but think the glasses could be dangerous.
Rounded corners
Lets hope Apple's watch doesn't resemble any watch design that's already been done before, that would be hypocrisy.
As for Samsung marketing one, it's not as if it was Apple's idea in the first place. They still havn't actually 'invented' anything to date.
Samsung already rumoured
There are plenty of rumours and pundit commentary and pictures as well of the as yet unseen secret Samsung watch.
This is not an Apple phenomenon, it is Tech Journalism making up news as usual.
Re: Samsung already rumoured
Samsung actually released it's first true smarphone wristwatch back in 2009 - S9110. They've been showing weird and wonderful physical PoCs for ages - and already manufacture millions of non-smart watches.
Watch?
Keeps time and I can see it in the dark - now that is a UI. Must go shopping...
Hmm, sounds like the Xperia Smartwatches
..... from several years back.....
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/
Re: Hmm, sounds like the Xperia Smartwatches
WIMM had a watch which apparently ran a minimal Android.
They were funded by Foxconn and recently went back into stealth.
Re: Hmm, sounds like the Xperia Smartwatches
SO yes again, Apple's innovation seems to be just copying Android and pretending it's new...
This is going to go down so well with the iFans and iInvesters.
iWatch, gGlass... /no/ Parker
It had never struck me that iCoolios might really aspire to the sort of costume jewellery that Lady Penelope wouldn't be seen dead wearing. But I'm neither a product of Gerry and Sylvia Andersons' imaginations nor a 'creative', so how would I know?
Watches? We don' need no steenkin' watches!
I thought the "hipster" generation had stopped buying watches these days now they all have "cool" smartphones with clock displays on them?
Coat. The one with the fob chain.
"...create something totally new like they did with the iPod"
I think it's becoming a bit of an inside joke. (snicker)
Re: "...create something totally new like they did with the iPod"
I think it's fair to say the iPod was new compared with what had been around up until then. It completely redefined the category and destroyed its competitors.
Re: "...create something totally new like they did with the iPod"
See also the iPhone, and the iPad. Though they might have got ideas from many other products, whether they were superior in vision, execution or marketing, they became the products every other was compared to.
Now, it may be too early to tell, but I have the highest doubts that the iWatch will do the same.
Bah, humbug
I guess if you live in a country that is enveloped in perpetual gloom, then an OLED or LCD watch might be viable.
Here in Australia, mobile phone displays are invisible in bright sunlight, and I can't imagine that a watch with the same property would be very popular. Also, there is not much room in a watch for a large battery, so the only display that makes any kind of sense is electronic paper technology (as used in e-book readers), which are visible in bright sunlight, and draw very little current.
In addition, there is no need for a watch to do any more that drive a display, accept user inputs, and communicate with a remote processor. That can be done with a tiny 8 bit micro controller that draws very little current, and doesn't even need a scheduler, let alone a full blown operating system. The job could be done with not much more RAM than is required to buffer the (monochrome) display image, and in theory doesn't even require a scheduler. The suggestion that a full blown operating system should be included is absurd.
Interestingly, it will share a trait that mechanical watches have - when the battery goes flat, it will only show the correct time twice a day.
Re: Bah, humbug
They could licence that "kinetic" technology that charges a battery?
Re: Bah, humbug
A small colour e-ink display should be easy enough to manufacture, maybe with a limited colour set. The relatively low number of pixels would give a reasonable frame refresh rate for information display. They might even be able to adequately display the moving second-hand of a clock so that you could have a continuous time indicator on your wrist. That would be quite an achievement.
Re: Bah, humbug
Haven't Citizen already done that with their eco kinetic thingy watches.
I will only be interested if they create a smart ipocket watch and Google monocle.
A gentleman has standards after all.
OLED - schmo-led
Wake me up when someone makes a computerised watch with clockwork-driven mechanical pixels (not too bling, please - I've sworn off Swarovski)
Avon to Liberator, two to teleport
Do we get to talk into our wrists then?
Got an iPad, iPhone iPod, Apple mac, Apple TV and next the iWatch.
But ultimately need a life!
Pros and cons...
Pro: the kinetic wrist energy produced from a fanboi after visitng the Apple store will keep one charged for months..
Con: their rapidly deteriorating eyesight, caused by that wrist action, will render the watch screen unreadable.
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