Posted on 06/06/2014 2:17:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wearing your smart device seams like a natural evolution. Instead of reaching into your pocket to find your phone, you wear it instead.
two way radio sound interesting. I’ve always been worried that iwatch will be more style than utility
Oh so breathless reporting!
And even with a rendering that is impossible to manufacture with this decade’s technology.
The tech press is worse than the political one. Totally in the tank for Apple. Months of fanciful renderings, umpteen rumors that all contradict each other, and ever more boastful features that are no where near reality.
It’s like they are running an advertising campaign for a device that they dont even know for sure exists other than through their continued circle-jerk.
Most notable is the feature in iOS8, where any Apple device can accept a call, initiate calls, and act as a speakerphone for an iPhone, no matter where it exists “in the house”. In other words, it will pipe all the critical phone data over data networks.
Hence, one can easily see that this lays the technical groundwork for allowing a SMALLER device than an iPhone - like a wearable, like a watch - to do the same exact thing.
Make them gold colored, call them Wonder Woman bracelets. Really that thing is ugly, and kind of late to market.
Calling Dick Tracy...
I’ve long thought that we’ll eventually have a wearable/carryable network, all connected by Bluetooth or something similar.
Earpiece/mike to talk and listen.
Watch as primary control.
Phone in pocket as primary storage and data manipulation device.
Pad (dumb version) as simply a larger and therefore easier to work with form of the phone screen for input and output.
Notebook computer, probably with large monitor when needed, to do intensive work.
But everything, or almost, is carried in your phone, which is the core of the system. You have it with you always. The other components just make it easier to input/ouput.
This will of course only be usable up till we get direct neural feed and implanted chips.
If Apple makes it you can bet it will be over priced and it will be bought by the Apple butt boys anyway. Three folks actually brag about how much over suggested retail they had to pay.
Fanboy, please.
That’s someone’s concept of a iWatch, not Apple’s. And being late to market hasn’t been much of a problem for Apple. Coupled with all the changes to the software they intro’d at WWDC, some interesting things should be in the pipeline.
True, Apple is always late to the market, then everybody insists they did it first anyway. I’m not sure in a time frame when fewer and fewer people are wearing watches the smart watch is really the killer app, the Samsung ones don’t seem to be getting that much market (only the junkiest of the gadget junkies I know has one). We’ll see, maybe the fanboy thing will cause a watch revival.
Vaporware was perfected a very long time ago by Windows PC manufacturers, not Apple. This iWatch thing apparently bothers you a great deal, but it sounds as if you've been hanging on to every little detail. Maybe you should consider backing away from following it so closely.
Apple makes it work and gains wide market acceptance via superior GUI and innovative form factors. The rest of the industry then turns on a dime and copies Apple. In that sense, Apple is first, they’re the benchmark for everyone else. One thing is for certain, Samsung’s effort in this regard is going to look silly in hindsight and will rapidly be forgotten, just as the vaporware HP Slate tablet was forgotten, just as the Zune was forgotten, just as every smartphone prior to the iPhone was forgotten. I have no idea where the industry would be without Apple to knock off.
Post doesn’t make any sense, but ok.
The iWatch is nothing but vaporware. A collection of dozens of imaginary devices that all are impossible to manufacture, but are passed around by supposedly legit news outlets as if they are the real deal. It’s almost embarrassing to watch people talk about something they have not seen, and do not know is real. But that have all types of sources that they never notice are all contradicting each other.
There is no “detail” to hang on. It was supposed to be released last year, then in Jan., then at WWDC, then Aug, and now October.
It’s a huge transparent bracelet, a tiny round face device, a small bracelet, a tiny square, a phone, no wait a health monitor, or was it a full computer...or maybe stripped-down iOS?
The industry would be fine without Apple to knock off. Because they’d still have the companies Apple knocks off to knock off. Apple makes things shinier and hipper, sometimes even better, but not as much better as their price.
Such as, lol?
“I have no idea where the industry would be without Apple to knock off.”
Really?
After reading every tech blog bend in knots to say it’s ok for Apple to steal all types of features in OSX, iOS 7 and 8, make larger phones, smaller tablets, Tablet multitasking, touchscreen computers, 3rd party keyboards, smartwatches, and streaming music services, and many other ideas Apple has “knocked off”, because they need to stay relevant and adapt to market trends, you guys are still trotting out this idea that everyone is just sitting around waiting to “knock off” Apple’s products? Which one?
The industry would be fine.
looks more like an iBangle.
I watched the WWDC Keynote. Subtle hints were there. The new developer kits, cloud kit, health kit; continuity/hand off etc., but no they didn’t preview any hardware there. It’s a software conference.
Still, they laid of pipe for developers. A lot! They gotta have new hardware in the pipeline. And they sure are making a lot of sapphire glass which would be perfect for a watch.
We’ll see in three or four months.
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