“The Apple Watch is the company’s’ first entirely new product category since the original iPad. It’s a huge gamble for Apple and a test of the still-nascent wearable market.,” so sayeth TIME Magazine.
“The Watch is the most customizable and varied product Apple has likely ever launched. It’ll come in three editions made of different metals and be available with multiple snap-in wrist bands,” TIME reports. “Prices start at $349.”
“The Watch has a touch interface that can sense the difference between a light touch and hard press,” TIME reports. “But it also has a ‘digital crown’ that allows users to quickly scroll through lists without obscuring the screen.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Which outfit will be the first to knockoff Apple’s patented Digital Crown and how long until Lucy Koh says, “What are you smoking crack? It doesn’t matter!”
Which outfit will be first MDN?
The software to operate the digital crown = Google.
The crown itself:
1) Samsung – most likely
2) Xiaomi – strong second choice
3) Amazon – dark horse
1) The “S Crown”
2) The “MiCrown”
3) The “Fire Crown”
Oh… And Lucy Koh deciding “it doesn’t matter.” – 2020
Stuff from the product intro last fall. What took so much time Time?
They have to get their face in the crowd of journalists before Apple’s big show on Monday. Buzz, hype, facetime.
Calling the ultimate iPhone accessory a huge gamble is very low IQ, especially when it sells for $350. Beats headphones sell for $250 – 350, so look around you now, and in the next 6 months, you will see the watch everywhere, too. iPhone accessories are a proven business model for Apple, which runs a very large retail and online operation.
“The Apple Watch is the company’s’ first entirely new product category since the original iPad.”
Apple Pay? iBeacon?
When most people think of product, they think of physical entities you can purchase. ApplePay and iBeacon are more on the “services” level to most people.
Speaking of services, where the hell is HomeKit and why is my house not full of it?
When I walk into a room, I want an iBeacon to automatically turn on the lights to a dimly lit shade of my favorite color, and reduce the temperature of that room from 72 to 70 degrees, and then lightly fade in some of my favorite music unless it knows I’m on an iPhone call. When I approach a main door I want it to automatically unlock. When I pull up to the garage inside my CarPlay car I want the garage door to automatically open.
I don’t want HomeKit to simply be a manual “Siri switch”. I want shit to happen automatically through accurate and reliable proximity triggers from my Apple Watch or iPhone being on my person.
And rightfully so.
First, Apple Pay isn’t a product, it’s a service. Second, Apple Pay requires ownership of an iPhone (or soon, Apple Watch).
As such, it’s more of a “feature” of those products that they are able to use the service, rather than Apple Pay being a product or even service in its own right.
At present, iBeacon is such a trivial (if any) revenue source for Apple that I’d hardly call it worthy of being listed as a “Product” along such revenue juggernauts as iPhone, Mac, iTunes Store, etc.
They meant “consumer hardware”.
So.. Since the watch uses the iPhone’s data etc, am I going to be blocked by AT&T since I have an unlimited data plan? Just like how I can’t have hotspot.
Probably. And that isn’t even the reason I was so happy to dump my unlimited plan with AT&T to go to Verizon. But I am very happy now.
Really?
A freaking slideshow to find out the 11 Amazing Features?
L A M E
The day some dummy let loose the first web code for ‘The Slide Show’, the world groaned. I have no idea why now, long after the death of actual slide machines, this decrepit legacy interface was dragged out of the grave and shoved onto technology journalism websites. It’s utter incomprehensible. I guess some geezers in the tech community still miss their old slide projectors. *GAG*
The superior web code alternatives to The Slide Show are numerous and will inevitably put The Slide Show back in the grave where it belongs. [Gawd what a rotting stench!]