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What Do You Think About Apple's Smart Watch?
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I'd prefer to stick with an old-fashioned watch that I don't have to plug in and recharge all the damn time.
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Like most actual people who spend a few hundred bucks on devices from Apple, I voted for SU and Take My Money.
The iGlasses come out next year.
The iGlasses come out next year.
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Although many disagree it almost seems like we've tried every type of body wear and people don't like don't use it. Even the ubiquitous smart phone and tablets are severely limited in truly using the web.
However, we could see more ubiquitous macroscopic computing. Kinect and Google cars are just the beginning.
However, we could see more ubiquitous macroscopic computing. Kinect and Google cars are just the beginning.
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Can it wirelessly supplant the iPod and iPhone, whispering texts, twitters and emails and transcribing speech to reply? I can't wait to see how the interface functions. Typing and touching screens is so 2012.
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Apple always looks for multiple revenue streams when they release a device. I can imagine that they might want to create this watch to replace things that people carry around in their pockets, like cash, credit cards, IDs, tickets, and keys. It is certainly plausible that they could do this in a watch with secure wireless communication and biometrics and then charge every company that wants to use their services. Making it low power so that you don't have to recharge it every day would be the difficult part, but it wouldn't be impossible as long as it doesn't support multimedia or high power apps. I guess we will wait and see.
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We're not getting a hover car, but we can has Two-Way Wristwatch TV!
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I'm getting a Pebble watch. It was a Kickstarter that way exceeded everyone's expectations. About $150, and it's on an open platform. It'll display my emails, texts, FB updates (or not), weather...or whatever else there's an app written for it. It's ePaper and it's light and flexible. So...what's so special about this Apple's thingy?
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The problem is that most people would want a smartphone capability in a watch. The screen would be tiny. It cannot be too bulky. Basically it has to be smaller than an iPod shuffle, but it has more capability.
Watches compare to smart phones, overlapped into the fashion category, (Wrist Watches started off as an fashion accessory before they were used as common practice in the First World War) The consumers in the market are not looking for the best functionality, but style, besides they don't want to look like they are so part of the herd. People are not so upset with everyone else has the same smartphone or the same iPod.
I think it would work if was completely revolutionary, like it could used a powerful computer, or something is a market changer like the iPhone and iPod. However the emphasis appears to be the curved glass and not what is underneath the glass. People will go nuts after looking at a tiny screen all day. The iPhone is tiny enough, which why the Samsung IIIe looks really nice...
Watches compare to smart phones, overlapped into the fashion category, (Wrist Watches started off as an fashion accessory before they were used as common practice in the First World War) The consumers in the market are not looking for the best functionality, but style, besides they don't want to look like they are so part of the herd. People are not so upset with everyone else has the same smartphone or the same iPod.
I think it would work if was completely revolutionary, like it could used a powerful computer, or something is a market changer like the iPhone and iPod. However the emphasis appears to be the curved glass and not what is underneath the glass. People will go nuts after looking at a tiny screen all day. The iPhone is tiny enough, which why the Samsung IIIe looks really nice...
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It could be cool, but most of the devices I've seen so far had far too crude screens and required too much setup.
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@14, this product is PERFECT for you. They ought to call it the "Will in Seattle Phone Watch". You'll buy it the day it comes out, and conspicuously roll your sleeve to show it off everywhere you go. You can use it to tweet to Ellen Barkin, eh?
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@15 Look, you just don't get fashion.
I never said I was fashionable, but there is technically no reason why anyone should spend more than $2 on a Chinese made watch that keeps accurate time, yet many people who buy iPad, iPhone, etc spend many thousands (and frequently tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands) of dollars on watches.
I'll let you ogle my signature edition Claudia Schiffer iWatch when I get it, but you can't touch my Ellen Barkin iGlasses, cause you'd leave smudges from all the grease on your fingers.
I never said I was fashionable, but there is technically no reason why anyone should spend more than $2 on a Chinese made watch that keeps accurate time, yet many people who buy iPad, iPhone, etc spend many thousands (and frequently tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands) of dollars on watches.
I'll let you ogle my signature edition Claudia Schiffer iWatch when I get it, but you can't touch my Ellen Barkin iGlasses, cause you'd leave smudges from all the grease on your fingers.
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Watches are jewelry, and little else. This would be the 2013 of the calculator watch—perfect for the man in your life that wears his Blutooth while in line for fast food.
I think they should go for it.
I think they should go for it.
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I predict that the main selling feature of this watch will be its camera. I love my iphone, but when I quickly want to snap a photo, the time it takes to pull out my phone, enter the code, open the camera app.. The moment is gone.
Having a camera watch would enable you to capture more candid shots and wirelessly transfer them wherever. Apple wants to find a way to get people to share and comment on each others' photos a la Facebook, and I suspect this is part of that larger strategy
Having a camera watch would enable you to capture more candid shots and wirelessly transfer them wherever. Apple wants to find a way to get people to share and comment on each others' photos a la Facebook, and I suspect this is part of that larger strategy
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@17, I "get fashion" a hundred thousand million billion times more than you do. I "get fashion" a hundred thousand million billion times more than you get ANYTHING, you tick-infested shitbilly. I've taken shits that know more about fashion than you do. You are a zero. Cease to exist.
@2, amusingly, the hot accessory for the burgeoning young bond trader or hedge fund manager with more automatic watches than he knows what to do with -- that's the kind that rewind themselves with the movement of your wrist, which requires you to be wearing it -- is a motorized watch winder. It's a box that holds your precious Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin and Patek Philippe watches you never wear, and rocks them back and forth all day to keep them charged. Owning one of these is like cocaine in the 80s: God telling you you have too much money.
@2, amusingly, the hot accessory for the burgeoning young bond trader or hedge fund manager with more automatic watches than he knows what to do with -- that's the kind that rewind themselves with the movement of your wrist, which requires you to be wearing it -- is a motorized watch winder. It's a box that holds your precious Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin and Patek Philippe watches you never wear, and rocks them back and forth all day to keep them charged. Owning one of these is like cocaine in the 80s: God telling you you have too much money.
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Since this is all rumor, I'd like to announce that I, too, am working on a wearable device that transmits a sense of continuous joy and enlightenment. These sentiments are captured and relayed to a dildonic system that works with all the major game platforms, where the sense of profound pleasure can be streamed.
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"It's a stupid idea. I can't think of a single reason why I'd need a smaller, less-portable screen."
Maybe I'm missing something but a smaller and LESS portable screen? How exactly is it less portable?
Maybe I'm missing something but a smaller and LESS portable screen? How exactly is it less portable?
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Actually, fellow Sloggers, I've been wearing an Apple Nano as a watch since my kids gave it to me for my last birthday. It just requires a $20 custom wrist band, and lets me have my fave music and FM radio with me wherever I go. Great for dog walks and yard work. I hadn't worn a watch since I got a cell phone, but this has been great! (/ad)
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I'm sad that the poll didn't include an option which referenced fear of a horrific sci-fi future in which the government monitors citizens' biological and social activities as a reason to dislike this idea. As such I feel "othered" by this Stranger poll. Help, I'm being oppressed!
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