“While iWatch rumors continue to run hot and heavy Apple hasn’t said word one about any specific wearable product,” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore. “Many of their competitors, however, have had smartwatches on the shelves for months if not years. That’s led to some market and media sentiment that Apple’s ‘late’ to the game. Apple, however, like wizards, tends to arrive precisely when it means to.”‘
“Apple wasn’t first to smartphones with the iPhone. They waited until they fully understood the pain of Treo, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian users, felt like there was a problem Apple was uniquely positioned to solve, and then pulled the trigger. Same with the iPad. It launched from the ashes of a decade of Tablet PC misteps,” Ritchie writes. “The smartwatch space isn’t at the Treo or Tablet PC point yet. There’s still more pain to learn from and more honing to be done.”
Read more in the full article here.
“It’s pretty clear that if you made a list of feature you would like to see on a smartwatch, the Gear doesn’t begin to measure up,” Jim Dalrymple writes for The Loop. “So why would Samsung release a product like that? It seems the only reason is to be first on the market, which shouldn’t be a motivating factor for a company if they want to change the way we think about a product category.”
“Apple hasn’t released or even announced its so-called iWatch yet, but even with the competitors releasing their products, we expect more from Apple,” Dalrymple writes. “You don’t need to invent a product category in order to change it. Apple has proven this many times with the iPod, iPhone, iPad and even the Apple TV. Existing markets have been revolutionized because Apple relied on its confidence to change an entire market by doing things better. Apple finds a problem, devises a way to fix the problem, and releases an easy to use product that seemingly delights users.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What Paul Masson said over a century ago is still true today, “Apple will sell no iWatch before its time.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
“…Apple finds a problem, devises a way to fix the problem, and releases an easy to use product that seemingly delights users.” – Exactly
Unfortunately the smartwatch is a solution in search of a problem.
The so called iWatch is not a watch although that will one very small function of the new device, and that fact will be why it will sell.
My contention has always been that they will never sell a watch.
I’m still hoping the iWatch is bait for stupid Samsung and others.
MDN! Please fix the headline!
“before its time”, not “before it’s time”!
Aaaauuuugh!
OK. Breathing into a paper bag. Calm down, self.
Yes, I know “it’s” *can* be an alternate there. But it’s not right! The phrase has a pedigree which should be respected.
Where’s that paper bag?
You should be aware of the Boswell seven-step program for “Possessive its” sufferers. They meet virtually and, assured of anonymity, exchange personal stories of their campaigns for language purity and the toll it has taken on their lives and sanity. Members are assured of gradual rehabilitation and an eventual resumption of normal life.
The similar “I’m OK, it’s OK,” another self-help group but one with a more pragmatic focus, preaches the virtue of deferring to spell-check as a stabilising influence in society, calmly presenting the apostrophe inserted by algorithms as an innocent stochastic approximation to common usage, not the spur to zealotry experienced by drive-by grammar Nazis.
The Homonym Society has a chapter devoted to the study of perversions of the “i t s” letter group, and has published significant research on the its’ variant condemned by OED and Brittanica and the late William Safire.
In 2012 the journal Linguistica devoted an entire issue to “i t s”. The lead article identified an existential threat from persistent erroneous usage of this wording and demonstrated how it can lead to gerund abuse, a far more serious disorder — one that is being considered for grant finding by the NIH.
grant funding, I meant
Its OK, Hannah. Your OK. Its alright.
oh, for the love of god, applesauce!
Hay! Except the fact that many hear take on the roll of grammer police.
Pleas don’t loose it, they’re harts our in the rite plays.
To many thymes wee our two ready too dessert are friends, just four a we misstake. Theirs not much at steak. Its OK.
After awl, the medium is the massage. Let lose your anger – its knot like it will altar anything. Your better off not letting it effect you – don’t loose site of the big picture.
Piece!
Sorry. I mean peas! not peice!
Unlike “whine”, which seems to get sold around here on a regular basis.
Where is Orson Welles when you need him?