IWatch
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(via macrumors...)
Former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée shares his perspective on Apple's rumored "iWatch", noting that the company likely has very ambitious plans for the device given its focus on continually pushing forward the concept of a "personal computer".
@unknownuser said:
what really floats their [boats], what hardens Apple’s resolve is designing, making, and selling large numbers of personal computers, from the traditional desktop/laptop Mac, to the genre-validating iPad, and on to the iPhone — the Very Personal Computer. Everything else is an ingredient, a booster, a means to the noblest end.
After walking through how Apple's iTunes Store, retail effort, software, and Apple TV all serve as ancillary offerings to support this positioning of the company's primary products as increasingly personal computers, Gassée argues that the iWatch is the next step in this progression and thus Apple will do much more than simply slap a previous-generation iPod nano into a wristband.
@unknownuser said:
Is Apple working on an iWatch that can be experienced as an Even More Personal personal computer — an “intimate computer”? If so, many questions arise: user interface, sensors, iOS version, new types of apps, connection with other iDevices… And, of course price.
This would be much more interesting than the perennially in-the-future Apple TV set. Of course, iWatch and Apple TV aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
Gassée's piece comes just as British newspaper The Observer has produced its own mockup of what an iWatch might look like given claims of Apple using Corning's bendable Willow Glass for the device.
There is no reason to believe that The Observer has any more insight into the strongly rumored Apple research project than anyone else, but the graphics which accompany the article reproduced on the sister-paper Guardian website do give an interesting feel for the difference a curved glass display could make to a smart watch and the article offers an overview of how Apple might fit into the smart watch market still in its infancy.
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Yawn
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@rich o brien said:
Yawn
maybe..
but if their goal is truly an intimate computer, this is one step closer to getting it inside our body..(so look at our hands.. probably the awesomest design on our whole body.. then hook some computer precision up to the muscles controlling our hands.. i'll take it)
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Apple's goal is money Jeff.....the be all and end all.
I love new tech and things like that but this is just boring.
Mobile phones killed the wrist watch and what's Apple's response.....let's make a watch.
What next? Apple is slowly turning into a posh JML
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@rich o brien said:
Apple's goal is money Jeff.....the be all and end all.
right.. i get that.. to me, apple is basically a marketing firm.. except they have enough money to just buy the inventions/products/technology then claim them as their own.. i mean, it's not like they themselves physically invented the iphone and all of it's components/technology.. they just bought all that stuff from the real inventors then packaged it their way and have most people believing they did in fact invent it..
@unknownuser said:
I love new tech and things like that but this is just boring.
Mobile phones killed the wrist watch and what's Apple's response.....let's make a watch.
i think calling this a watch (if it's actually real to begin with) is a misnomer.. sure, it goes on your wrist like a watch does but i think it's more of an iphone that will be basically glued to your body moreso than the current iteration is..
@unknownuser said:
What next? Apple is slowly turning into a posh JML
probably not exactly like that but yeah.. it's coming..
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A watch?!!! f#ck that I want a light saber and flying car.
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@solo said:
flying car.
i'm pretty sure nobody really stops and thinks about what would happen if you took a few hundred million humans and gave them a bunch of flying cars
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@unknownuser said:
@solo said:
flying car.
i'm pretty sure nobody really stops and thinks about what would happen if you took a few hundred million humans and gave them a bunch of flying cars
Yeah, here in the states the Patriot act has prevented that invention.
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@solo said:
Yeah, here in the states the Patriot act has prevented that invention.
using them as weapons or whatever aside.. i'd be scared shltless walking around manhattan with a bunch of cars flying around above me.. bad enough with the cars on the ground..
that movie the fifth element had it.. it might be possible if computers were doing the flying but the movie has bruce driving the thing manually.. screw that
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"m" http://www.imwatch.com
It's good to see that now all major competitors innovate at the same time without headstart. That makes things more interesting.So I hope the "devices nightmare" will find it's destination soon: Should I buy a laptop and a tablet and a smartphone, or a big phone instead of a tablet, and a watch and glasses.
Once they will all be the same (as for included hardware) and only differ in interfaces. Why not have one device that can offer all interfaces, depending on context? -
Typical Mac style hype, " we will create a watch" I already own a watch that does all this.
The motoactv http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/8GB-or-16GB-MOTOACTV/79070,en_US,pd.html is marketed as a sports watch, but does a whole lot more, plus it can be "rooted" quite easily to run android.It's a shame this huge company will overrun and monopolise yet another useful device.
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@box said:
Typical Mac style hype, " we will create a watch" I already own a watch that does all this.
yeah, but now you'll have to buy an adaptor that doesn't fit anything else to use it!
have the fanboys started queueing at the apple stores yet?
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Apple. Creating solutions to problems you never had.
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Hi folks.
Apple already had a watch.
The iPod Nano previous generation, the small squarish one, could be worn as a watch. It was even possible to change the face to suits your mood.
They could revive that, add bluetooth and Wi-Fi for connectivity so no need for a cable.
Add cell phone circuitry to have a phone.
Rechargeable by induction, so no cable again.
The only problem will be the small screen and the battery life.
It may appeal to some people that have everything and just want one more gadget.
Personnaly, I have not worn a watch since a good 12 years. Why ?
I can see the time on my phone, on my computer monitor, on my oven, on my microwave, on my cable box, on my TV, averywhere at work, in the metro, etc, etc.
Just ideas.
Jean
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My point exactly, there are several already well developed, but he who shouts loudest wins these days.
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@box said:
My point exactly, there are several already well developed, but he who shouts loudest wins these days.
lol.. apple could probably come out with iBread and subsequently convince half the world they invented bread..
(but who's to blame? apple? or consumers?... i mean, i very often take digs at these giant corporations etc but the main reason they can pull this kind of crap is because we_the_people let them.. with apple though, they have this uncanny knack for making a large percentage of people feel good about being ripped off
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Yes indeed we do let them, but then people say they are just giving us what we want so they aren't to blame, but they are in fact giving us what they want us to have so they are to blame.
Look at the history of the food industry, sugars, high fructose corn syrup, now horse meat etc. Yes we all let it happen but they have done it deliberately for profit, not out of the goodness of their hearts, not to make life better for people, not for the betterment of mankind, purely because it makes more money for them.
Mac and Micro are no different, if there was no profit in advancing technology we would still be excited by tin cans and string.The whole self promotion overindulgence social media look at me look at them bollocks really gets on my tits. Yes I blame both sides of the coin, which is why I think about my choices and often find myself either ahead of the herd, bumping heads with it or off somewhere in the wrong field wallowing in crap.
It a classic catch 22 or chicken and egg dilemma, but as long as we let it happen like it's only happening to someone else it will continue. A perfect example of "It's not us it's them" is the media reporting about how invasive the media is. I don't know how they can do it with a straight face.
But back to topic, I think the iWatch was originally invented by the porn industry. Come to think of it, with the old mechanical gyro winder you could keep one charged for years that way.
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haha.. great post
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At last the "two-way wrist radio" * add arrow caption*,
No, make that "two-way wrist TV"
Wait, "two-way wrist rocket launcher"?
When was the last time I wanted something strapped on my body?
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