Posted on 06/06/2014 2:17:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Apple will unveil and release its highly anticipated smartwatch, which many presume to be called iWatch, in October, according to a report from Re/code.
Re/code has a stellar track record when it comes to Apple news, so we believe this report to be legitimate.
According to the report, Apple says it is confident enough in its product that it will produce 3 to 5 million for the initial shipment.
The New York Times was one of the first outlets to report on the iWatch, after a February 2013 report from Nick Bilton illuminated Apple's nascent smartwatch efforts, likening its possible "next big thing" to something Dick Tracy or James Bond would use: "A watch that double[s] as a computer, two-way radio, mapping device or television."
Many believe Apple's iWatch will marry the looks of a luxury wristwatch with the powerful sensors found in today's fitness wristbands, and, of course, familiar elements from the iPhone and iPad shrunken down and reconfigured to work from your wrist.
Apple will likely tie in many features from the recently announced iOS 8, including the new health app that tracks biometric data from its users and presents it in an accessible way. The iWatch will likely be able to supply this information by being able to measure one's pulse.
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Who needs a watch?
Xerox, Samsung, Motorola, Sony. All those companies that shipped a version of the product first before Apple found a way to make it hip.
Name the product from Xerox, Samsung and Sony that Apple knocked off.
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center developed the visual computer screen that was later used by Apple. I think there was some litigation about it.
GUI, smart watch, portable music. Plus of course tablets, smart phones, digital portable music and plenty of other things that other companies did first. You yourself admitted they are NOT first to market with products. “Apple makes it work and gains wide market acceptance” means they didn’t make it first.
No, Apple paid Xerox. Xerox had developed a very basic graphical user interface with a mouse, and proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it. Never shipped it, never sold it. They benefitted financially from Apple’s interest, who developed it much further and successfully commercialized a GUI of their own.
You’re claiming Apple knocks off other companies, I’m saying they don’t. What strange Rube Goldberg contraption are you calling a tablet prior to the iPad? Smartphone? Where are they now?
It looks gay.
If I may add.
The PARC staff took their system to Xerox headquarters and made a presentation. They were summarily dismissed with “we’re not a computer company, we are a copier company.”
Steve Jobs was given a walk thru at Palo Alto where he saw the WYSIWYG interface and that system became the spark plug idea for the Mac.
Then MS changed their interface, calling it windows.
But it went back to a guy I saw a clip of on PBS history of computing. He presented a mouse and icon driven system in front of computer engineers a few years before PARC. Can’t remember his name.
All we need is the anti-gravity cheery picker buckets and DT will be put out to pasture. Truly ahead of it’s time.
They paid for that tour of PARC. Xerox had no interest in pursuing the GUI with mouse. Apple did.
Actually you admitted they do, just not with those words. Not being first to market IS knocking off other companies.
First tablets included the PenPad, the Handwriter, and the GRIDPad. And don’t forget Apple’s own Newton which post dates all those but still comes way before the iPad. And in between the Newton and iPad you get the PalmPilot, FreePad, PocketPC and MS Tablet PC.
First smart phones include the Docomo and the Blackberry.
Where are they now is a straw man question. We’re talking about first. Apple wasn’t. It’s the tech industry, everybody rips each other off, and the company that was truly first usually goes bankrupt because they don’t have the leverage to fully capitalize on it before the big dogs crush the market.
Thanx didn’t know about the payment.
“Smartphone” as it’s currently understood is entirely a product of Apple or a thinly veiled derivative thereof. “Tablet” as it’s currently understood is entirely a product of Apple or a thinly veiled derivative thereof. “PC” as it’s currently understood is entirely a product of Apple or a thinly veiled derivative thereof. iPod, same thing.
Why is that? You know it’s true.
Only because the gadget world has gone to touchscreen. But even there they weren’t first, Ericsson R380 was a smartphone with a touchscreen out in 2000, and it was based on a PDA model, so it’s got first touchscreen tablet too.
And no PC as it’s currently understood is entirely a product of IBM the guys who made the first computer branded as such.
Apple gets the cred because, as you have already admitted they have the first one that’s popular. But it isn’t first. The real question here is why can’t Apple fanboys admit Apple is never first to market? Why do you have so much self worth tied up in a company that you have to lie to yourself and others about their actual history? Doesn’t bother me that this windows machine I’m sitting in front of wasn’t first, nor that my MP3 player in the car wasn’t first. None of my ego is tied up in the products I use.
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