“The first shipment of Apple’s Apple Watches just began Friday morning, but retailers and e-commerce giants are already betting on the new device,” Rebecca Borison reports for TheStreet.
“The Apple Watch app store went live late on Thursday and among more than 3,000 apps in the store are ones from Amazon, eBay, Zulily, Target and other retailers,” Borison reports. “‘eBay’s goal is to facilitate shopping whenever and wherever — on their desk, in their pocket, or even on their wrist,’ said David Cheng, director of mobile products at eBay by email. ‘The eBay for Apple Watch app will be another step forward in driving our vision to deliver frictionless commerce by bringing simplicity while maintaining utility.'”
“The eBay Apple Watch app will enable users to follow auctions in real time and receive notifications ‘so that they can react immediately and never miss a sale,'” Cheng added,” Borison reports. “Such activity will take advantage of the Apple Watch’s being easily accessible at all times of the day. ‘That’s a great notice to get on my watch,’ Gartner managing vice president Gene Alvarez said by phone. ‘I can tap and boom, make my bid and I’m moving on,’ he said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’ll be fascinating to see what works on Apple Watch and what doesn’t.
Ah this is shaping up to be a whole new game. History in the making. Way to go Apple!
Yup !.. Exciting !!!:)
Absolutely, this is ushering in a whole new era of wearable devices and I’m sure that the stock will eventually reflect that, well maybe, I’m an optimist.
Ah I see the tech cockroach-consorting & clueless down-voting trolls are out from under their rock again doing their pathetically laughable worst.
I haven’t bought a PC since 2006
I’ve never bought a PC. Apple since my first Mac IIci.
Remember Flying Toasters and the game that had built in?
Yes and how I miss PageMaker 4.
QuarkExpress 3, from a 21″ B&W monitor attached to a Mac SE30.
i had an se that i upgraded myself to an se 30 with a video card for a color monitor so i could use qxp too!
Remember these Trading cards?
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http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Dictators_Home.html
I worked at Eclipse, during their development, when they used Mac SE30(s) with full page displays. They had only one color display, and the rest were B&W. I was a mail room guy, but soaked in what I could. A very interesting time of my life.
My first Mac was the 512K. Thats a long time ago.
My first was a Mac (with only 128k but not labeled) in Jan 1985 and later updated to the Fat Mac. Wonderful times.
A dual floppy Mac SE for me.
moof! Who can forget Clarus and Talking Moose?
My first Mac with a built in HD was the SE20 and I believe 1MB Ram. Loved that Mac.
Cricket Draw, Freehand and PageMaker were among the first I used on a Mac. Freehand was really a treat to use.
Freehand was SO much better than Illustrator at the time of its demise.
New Powerbook 170 my first Mac in 1992 on my way to work in London. Boy did the Brits love checking it out.
Apple IIe with upgrade to 128kb of RAM. It was expensive but at least I could play Karateka
IIe here also. The wife went from written ledgers to spreadsheets. Took some weekends to set it up.
Mac SE/20 HDFD 20 MB internal HD
Added an extra MB I Ram.
First printer was a LaserWriter NTR
When I got a Mac IIsi
I miss PageMaker so much. Damn you Adobe. Lol