I'm with you on simply not feeling the iWatch thing. Maybe that has a lot to do with having no respect for men that wear jewelry. To put it bluntly most males you ripun into with watches on their wrist have mental problems I'd rather not have to deal with.
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Originally Posted by BakaRakuda
Not really feeling the whole iWatch thing, I just don't think smart watches will fly. But if anyone can make it fly it will be Apple.
Even if it's a successful product I don't think it can match what the iPhone, iPad(or iPod in past year) are to Apple, something more along the lines of a popular accessory like the current Apple TV or Smart Cover. But seems like everyone is trying to build this up as the next big thing, which will just bring out the media morons when the iWatch doesn't sell 50 million it's first quarter.
What exactly is the usage model everyone is thinking of that makes an iWatch so desirable?
I don't know about that. At times it seems like people buy Apple products with a knee jerk reaction or atleast with little self control. Beyond that Apple would need to deliver a device that offers real value to coral those with a little more free will.
As to a usage model, this. Is the most difficult thing to contemplate. Frankly I just don't see the technology there to deliver the functionality talked about here. One would likely need sub 14NM technology just have enough power at a low enough price point to drive such a device. A current iPhone or IPad app would need to run much more efficiently on a watch
Honest question, do people still wear watches? Other than as a fashion statement, what use are they? I haven't worn a watch in maybe 15 years since I started permanently carrying a cell phone with me.
No. Watches are dead as far as a useful object, they're only used as bling now.
As you've seen from some of the other comments in the thread, it's people who claim to know "how to dress" who still wear the silly things when in fact they know nothing about that subject, since the fashion statement their gaudy watch makes is roughly the same one as the rapper's gold chain with diamond dollar signs on it.
No. Watches are dead as far as a useful object, they're only used as bling now.
As you've seen from some of the other comments in the thread, it's people who claim to know "how to dress" who still wear the silly things when in fact they know nothing about that subject, since the fashion statement their gaudy watch makes is roughly the same one as the rapper's gold chain with diamond dollar signs on it.
They certainly are used as fashion statements and I'd wager is the most common reason for watches but they aren't without utility. For instance, while your phone battery needs charging daily a watch can go many months or even forever without needing the battery replaced or winding (if you have a self winding watch which uses the motion of the arm to wind it).
There are definitely ares where a watch is much more ideal than a phone. For instance, diving. You can buy underwater cases for a lot of electronics these days but you're not going to see many divers replacing their dive watch with an iPhone app.
For keeping track of time at work a wrist watch is far more convenient (and at times, safer: I work in a research lab) than having to handle a cell phone. For something easiest to just "see" the wrist is still the best location.
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I'm with you on simply not feeling the iWatch thing. Maybe that has a lot to do with having no respect for men that wear jewelry. To put it bluntly most males you ripun into with watches on their wrist have mental problems I'd rather not have to deal with.
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Originally Posted by BakaRakuda
Not really feeling the whole iWatch thing, I just don't think smart watches will fly. But if anyone can make it fly it will be Apple.
Even if it's a successful product I don't think it can match what the iPhone, iPad(or iPod in past year) are to Apple, something more along the lines of a popular accessory like the current Apple TV or Smart Cover. But seems like everyone is trying to build this up as the next big thing, which will just bring out the media morons when the iWatch doesn't sell 50 million it's first quarter.
What exactly is the usage model everyone is thinking of that makes an iWatch so desirable?
I don't know about that. At times it seems like people buy Apple products with a knee jerk reaction or atleast with little self control. Beyond that Apple would need to deliver a device that offers real value to coral those with a little more free will.
As to a usage model, this. Is the most difficult thing to contemplate. Frankly I just don't see the technology there to deliver the functionality talked about here. One would likely need sub 14NM technology just have enough power at a low enough price point to drive such a device. A current iPhone or IPad app would need to run much more efficiently on a watch
iWatch.
You know. I could do with a a good gym stopwatch.
So I'd be down with an iWatch...
Curved glass, istrap etc.
PS. Well done to the guy who linked to that very interesting article on what an iWatch could be.
The amount of times i have to go fishing in my pocket for (behave...) the time...
Lemon Bon Bon.
No. Watches are dead as far as a useful object, they're only used as bling now.
As you've seen from some of the other comments in the thread, it's people who claim to know "how to dress" who still wear the silly things when in fact they know nothing about that subject, since the fashion statement their gaudy watch makes is roughly the same one as the rapper's gold chain with diamond dollar signs on it.
They certainly are used as fashion statements and I'd wager is the most common reason for watches but they aren't without utility. For instance, while your phone battery needs charging daily a watch can go many months or even forever without needing the battery replaced or winding (if you have a self winding watch which uses the motion of the arm to wind it).
There are definitely ares where a watch is much more ideal than a phone. For instance, diving. You can buy underwater cases for a lot of electronics these days but you're not going to see many divers replacing their dive watch with an iPhone app.
I started a thread about this here over a year ago.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/135228/iphone-nano-wristwatch
The discussion back then mostly centered on what features Apple would be willing to cut, but now that time is moving on that's becoming irrelevant.