If somebody merely mentions an Apple idea, all common sense vanishes and the fawning begins.
Apparently, nobody’s stopped maybe, not even Apple, if this supposed idea is real to think about what has been a main source of Apple’s recent woes and why Samsung is now the world’s number one phone seller. That reason is because mobile internet communication is fundamentally a visual experience, not an auditory or temporal one. That’s why phones have migrated quickly to ever larger screens and why the old phone use, to talk, is of little import. A watch is even less relevant or useful.
There’s a better future, if any, for something like Google’s virtual display eyeglasses than any Dick Tracy like micro miniature wrist display. Or, maybe, Apple envisions folks with 5″ displays strapped to their wrists?
Apple has been consistently lost in space since Mr. Jobs’ untimely passing, going on lawsuit wild goose chases, not producing timely updates of existing products or any meaningful new introductions of products. Now, even their trial balloon ideas are going around the bend and seem like the blind gropings of corporate types, rather than the acts of any visionaries.
Your statement sounds exactly like commentary I read on here and heard on CNBC after the iPad was announced: “The iPad sounds like a female hygiene product” “No one wants an iPad the future is powerful laptops” “This idea was tried before and failed” “What is Apple thinking”
The list of criticisms was endless. Of course, the iPad was a huge success.
I don’t know if the iWatch will be a success. But, I know enough to think outside the box there are functions we perform every day payment, calendar, reminders, time check, music, even short phone calls or bluetooth capabilities that can be incorporated into a phone.
It’s not gonna replace an internet surfing iPad but it could be an interesting auxiliary product. Why don’t we wait and see what the specks and functions are.
Pretty cool Air Jordan 4s stuff they’ve got coming out.
And an iWatch Air Jordan Spizike would be pretty cool. Right now I use my iphone to monitor my email, etc. and pull out my laptop when I need to do something. Would be great to have a nano sized ios device that can keep me up to date phone and laptop can stay in the bag unless needed.
The form factor is less important than the function IMO doesn’t HAVE to be a watch, just a small device that you can tuck away and get to quickly. Whether that’s on your wrist, in your pocket or wherever up to the user.
An iWatch reveals an important yet often ignored value added element to Apple products. They are bling. These days, people do not Nike LeBron 11 show off peacock feathers, jewelry or Rolex watches, they flash their status symbols iPhones, and the iWatch is yet another piece of bling which will also have important functions besides telling time, I’m sure,.
Seeing an AAPL rebond back to $700 as if the last six months never happened, and it definitely shiouldn';t have happened. There was no major reason for AAPL to fall more than for consolidation, and the last 200 points had nothing at all to do with fundamental reality. Apple is now selling below book value and is still the best company on earth makming the most money on earth with the best profit margins of any tech company.
We had numerous venues to hear music, and the Walkman was very passe when the i pod hit the streets.
Bit it worked out pretty well for AAPL
AAPL needs to do something. Adding bells an whistles to existing products is only going to take them so far. To begin another period Air Jordan 15s of acceleration AAPL needs to introduce new products. Watches? I don’t know nobody wear one. Televisions? Everybody has one. But i would be willing to bet that AAPL will introduce a category killer if they decide to get into either niche.
But before you bash back, let me tell you why.
As a consumer, Apple’s release strategies are very frustrating.
Based on past experience, the first iWatch is likely to have the following issues:1) It will be a closed system, developers will not have access to everything the hardware can do (this has advantages and disadvantages, depending on your perspective)2) It will be missing a few key features that competitors already have on the market.
Now, before you start hating on me, know that I own a now retired iPhone 4 (currently serving as a workout iPod for me), an iPhone 5, and an iPad 2, and I like them all, to an extent. But you have to be realistic, not everyone likes everything about Apple and their products, or certainly their product releases.
However, as an investor (though I do not own any Apple stock at this time), I’m sure this product would make Apple money. Air Jordan 6s : )
> They have always stayed true to their strategy and meeting> customers’ needs.
I respectfully disagree, in that I don’t think that’s been their strategy at all.
Their strategy has been to create new categories, and create demand.
The iPod created a new category. The iPhone (or at least it’s app store concept) created a new category. The iPad (or at least the degree to which it was well done) created a new category.
The iWatch may yet create a new category.
We will have to wait and see. : )
Sorry to disagree with you, D_V. AAPL has never led with let’s “create new categories”. Read the plethora of comments from SJ and interviews from many videos it’s never been that the brand has always been about value and developing products to help people in their daily lives. Yes, there have been pushing existing things to the limit and disrupting markets but “create new categories” has always been a subset of the former. Now, they have lost their way a bit, they need something innovative, but the strategy is off track a bit now to determine what’s next. I agree with Avie Tevanian when he said that “complacency” would be AAPL’s undoing. The competition is catching up and there’s not much more to be done with the smart phone the smart phone market is converging. So, the next gen of innovation has to be purposeful. I hope AAPL finds it. In the meantime, I can’t decide if I am going to Shareholders’ meeting in person yet.
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