“Later today, when Apple unveils its long-awaited wearable, expect similar, self-assured proclamations of its doom,” Mark Rogowsky writes for Forbes.
“With four of the millennium’s biggest hit products, Apple’s new releases typically draw more predictions of doom than success,” Rogowsky writes. “There is an undercurrent of hate towards Apple that is a function of jealousy over the company’s success and its ‘arrogance’ both real and perceived. But what really frustrates Apple haters is that the company can most often do things [of which] other companies only dream.”
“Apple will show off more details about its HealthKit app tomorrow with the Mayo Clinic touting the capabilities of iPhones and iWatches for making people healthier. The company will show how its mobile payments solution is ready to go with major national retailers,” Rogowsky writes. “Samsung fans will point out that heart-rate monitoring is a “me-too” feature. Android aficionados will explain that paying with your phone has existed for several years thanks to Google Wallet. Neither group will mention that for all the usage of those features, they might as well not exist. And yet, if Apple mentions the competition at all, it will be to heap contempt on it. Again, the critics will be enraged.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Aw, poor babies are about to get enraged as Apple backs up and drives over the roadkill yet again. Too bad. Let them foam at the mouth with FUD. Beyond rampant, unpunished Apple patent and trade dress infringement, FUD is all they have.
To paraphrase the immortal words of Frank ‘The Fixer’ Acavano: Fsck the ambulance, call a hearse.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
The butthurt wil be immense…I can’t wait.
It will not be announced, period.
Whoops! :D. I loooove ittttttttt!
Where’s my iTV ? Been waiting longer than iWatch !
How does “jer” translate from Gene Munster?
If Apple announced that they have a product that reanimates the dead, the iHaters would announce that Apple is causing overpopulation and thus the end of the world.
As we already know, if Apple comes out with this, it will be awesome, and done right. Cause that is the Apple way.
True.
Will it be any different than the normal hatred of all things apple?
Yup, because Samsung and others will want their name mentioned along with Apple today and tomorrow.
“Say anything you want about me, but pronounce my name correctly.” OK, Slamdunk.
Some Apple products have been flops, the iWatch may be one of them. Time will tell.
I for one don’t wear a watch and have no plans to buy one.
Or it will do more than tell time!
Are you the Samsung Gary, the Google Gary or the Amazon Gary?
We know the Microsoft Gary has given up the fight.
Some bras have been flops, the Wonder Bra may be one of them. Running to catch a bus will tell. I, for one don’t wear a bra and have no plans to wear one.
You say you don’t wear a bra show me the evidence
😀
Yes, I do. Just look at all the bruises on my knees from when I run to the bus.
LMAO and black eyes no doubt 🙂
I do wear a watch, in fact two; one for work and one for outside work. Both are fully analogue mechanical, one auto, the other a forty-plus year old that needs winding every day.
Neither will be replaced by an electronic device that needs charging overnight.
I can, however, see advantages to having a wristband, Fitbit-type device that allows fast use of payments, security door unlocking, public transit passthrough/ticket payment without needing a bunch of separate cards, and without needing to remove a phone from a pocket.
Exactly.
I don’t wear a watch, haven’t in years.
But the “iWatch” I will look at, will I buy one just cause it’s apple? No.
Will I take a good look at it? Yes.
Timepiece, not interested.
Million other possibilities on the iWatch, interested.
If Apple announced that they had invented a practical teleported, the iHaters would announce the end of the world as we know it because we would all be expected to be in two places at once.
An iWatch will be great, but I’m with a lot of people and would love to see some kind of update to the Apple TV. I guess in a couple hours we will know.
If Apple announced that they had invented a practical Time Travel device, iHaters would announce that Apple has destroyed life as we know it because we wouldn’t know if we were coming or going.
You’re plagiarizing yourself.
When Samsung invented plagiarism, iHaters said nothing.
Samsung did NOT invent plagiarism, they just copied it. 😛
It’s already been done by the Android crowd: That’s why they’ve seen this all before. And the next great thing is here again. And again.
Android was a copy of the Blackberry till Apple released the iPhone then Google did the fastest about turn in history and copied iPhone IOS. Android users are the biggest hypocrites claiming they were first when all they did was copy IOS and now Windows phone.
I haven’t seen a single Apple product announced since the return of Steve Jobs that didn’t get a lot of hate thrown at it. iPhone 6 and the “iWatch” will be no different. The best thing to do is to laugh at the Apple haters. Since they hate Apple so much, they’re not likely to be convinced to buy Apple products, so I don’t even try to persuade them.
I remember all the negative comments about the iPhone, which turned out to be absolutely revolutionary.
It has been a rarity for any of those early critics to say, “I was wrong.”
Are you listening? You know who you are.
Watches are one of the most personal items there are, you can absolutely guarantee there will be huge debates over this product:
Ford vs Chevy
Who likes a rolex (ugh)
Let the games begin…….
MDN I am surprised. This is the perfect article for you to have listed several of the articles by analysts proclaiming the eminent failure of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
The “Returds Strike Back” to be sure. It must hurt the fickle Fanfroid to realize neither Google nor Samsung for the most part are not able to move the needle forward as effectively as Apple does. And we are getting into territory that can’t easily just be copied.
It isn’t just that a predictable wave of disparagement washes over anything at all mentioned by Apple…
It’s that the wave is cyclical: the trough of hate for Apple is deepest when time yawns between keynotes with nothing new in sight, and gulls begin to keen about lack of innovation.
Then rumours of new wonders begin to circulate and the swell begins to rise, ridiculing the supposed coming products as regressive or imitative, and too little, too late.
The crest occurs after Apple’s new reveals, which are derided as insufficient, derivative, gimmicky, stale retreads.
Then they sell well. But not well enough, as the wave ebbs; and even those sales are the result of marketing legerdemain. A new trough of innovation deepens.
In short, a vicious meme travels through information space year after year, a wave never attenuated by Apple’s successes but one that seems actually to absorb dark energy from them — out of the unfathomed well of human emotion, ill-wishing.
Do you have a Readers Digest version of that missive like the shortened tome: “A Tale of One City”?
Haters gonna hate
And through it all, the cash keeps a’rollin’ in.
A few points that could push sales one way or the other:
1) will work with only iPhone5 or newer
2) requires connection with above iPhone to work fully. (newest iPod Touch not good enough)
3) Starts at $349 (probably variable due to model and bands)
4) Battery life (still unknown)
5) Release after Holiday season (time enough for Android Wear and other wrist wearables to sell)
I’m sorry, but at this point there’s just NO WAY Apple can catch up with Samsung and all the open source products out there. NO WAY!