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AppleInsider said:

Apple shipped about 2.2 million Apple Watches in the March quarter, although it still saw its share of the smartwatch market slip to 52.4 percent, according to research estimates published on Thursday.
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gatorguy said:

Ummm.... 
Aren't watchbands typically swappable? I know I've changed mine several times on several watches over the years. Hardly "taking a page from Apple" IMHO.  Not sure that "Mode" button will hold up tho. Looks a little questionable to me. 

YP101 said:

saarek said:

Probably updated after his comment.

I guess chart base on million. 
I just wonder spending more than $8 billion, and it came up with scissor keyboard, mouse with charging port at bottom, 12 inch iPad pro, sell 4th gen CPU on mini, etc..
Oh one more thing.. soldered RAM for make more profit.. Great job R&D..

sog35 said:

gatorguy said:

Essentially then you're saying sell an iPhone 4. Why??  I don;t think you've actually looked at Android phones. A light version of iOS wouldn't compare feature-wise with a comparably-priced one, old hardware would run iOS slowly and of necessity not be able to run some of iOS latest features. Some apps wouldn't be compatible with the old hardware either. Gosh, sounds like a new Android phone loaded with three-year old KitKat. At the end of the day you'd have dozens of Android model phones running rings around that old handicapped not-an-iPhone you think everyone will want to buy. They wouldn't. On top of that it becomes Apple's own fragmentation headache since they'd have to support various hardware builds according to you, some with large screens, some with small, some with more memory or different controllers than others. Guess what, some won't get more than an update or two.

Apple would not want to be associated with that. 

Who said anything about iPhone4?

i said it would be a 3 year old iPhone. So if they license it out next year it would be an iPhone6 hardware. An iPhone6 runs better than most $300 Android phones.

And there would be no fragmentation. Adjusting for screen size is no problem. But if it is then they could just stick with the same screen size as the iPhone.

The phones will be IDENTICAL to the 3 year old iPhone. The only difference is the case and maybe screen size.

Updates won't be a problem. They will fall under the same terms as Apple's iPhones.

gatorguy said:

sog35 said:

They would not have to worry about price pressure because they would have an EXCLUSIVE license to have iOS light.  Only one hardware maker will have the rights to make these special iOS phones.

Curious what you think the advantages of iOS light would be since I assume by "light" you mean with truncated features and running on lesser hardware than similarly-priced Android devices without stripped out features. Why would a consumer spend more for the handicapped iOS one? Long-time Apple fans wouldn't buy 'em and without "Apple" on the case there's no sense of prestige either in developing Asian markets. iOS by itself won't cut it IMO.