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Posted on 06/19/2014 1:42:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc's first smartwatch in July, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the tech giant tries to prove it can still innovate against rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. The watch, which remains unnamed but which company followers have dubbed the iWatch, will be Apple's first foray into a niche product category that many remain skeptical about, especially as to whether it can drive profits amid cooling growth in tech gadgets.
Apple will introduce a smartwatch with a display that likely measures 2.5 inches diagonally and is slightly rectangular, one of the sources said. The source added that the watch face will protrude slightly from the band, creating an arched shape, and will feature a touch interface and wireless charging capabilities.
The source said Apple expects to ship 50 million units within the first year of the product's release, although these types of initial estimates can be subject to change. The watch is currently in trial production at Quanta, which will be the main manufacturer, accounting for at least 70 percent of final assembly, the source said.
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I used to think that too, but sometimes it’s more convenient to just glance at your wrist, rather than stop what you’re doing to dig out your phone, and press a button.
So I dug a couple of old Seikos out of a drawer and had the batteries replaced. Wearing one right now.
According to reports, ios 8 has code for environmental sensor (temp, barometric [alt, depth], humidity), a watch would be a good place for them.
Tend to disagree. I think that this will be the central node of a triad of devices. You have an iPhone in the pocket that uses the iWatch as a control node. You have health and environment sensors that use the iWatch AND iPhone to display selected information. Yes, the current generation bass gotten out of the habit of using dumb watches but add these new features and that habit may resume.
One thing is that you seldom leave a watch at the bar like many have done with iPhones and such. If you build fingerprint or retina security into such a device (unlikely for 1st gen.), you make use that much more convenient. CONVENIENCE is Apple’s speciality and this may really be the ... (wait for it) ... “Next Big Thing!”
There were wristband cases made for one of the smallest touchscreen iPods so you could wear it like a watch. They discontinued that iPod so it couldn’t have been too popular (although it was missing a lot of features that presumably the new model will have).
The problem is, who’s going to give up their real watch to wear an iWatch when they already carry an iPhone that does the same thing?
What are those for?
“See the 2 rods coming from the center, with the long one pointing up and to the right, and the short one pointing up and to the left?
What are those for?”
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LOL.
I shouldn’t laugh too much, as I’m sure there may well be young people that are only used to reading time on a digital display.
I have a radio-controlled clock on the wall in my apartment, and it displays in 24-hour time. A young American colleague visiting my pad was confused, to put it mildly.
“What’s 17:22 mean?” I had to explain it to her.
I'm trying to disregard the anti-Apple slur so present with people so disparaging of Apple products yet immediately drawn to Apple threads. However, I agree about not wearing watches. I haven't worn one in fifteen years or more, and I'm a senior. Too many gadgets around that will display the time so a wristwatch is akin to having a horse buggy-whip. That having been said, a wristwatch will be more useful as a health-monitoring device, and is probably Apple's target market. Personally, I'd buy one if it had a powerful laser and shot poison darts, but that's me.
A freak’n laser beam! Dude, that’s so rad!
LOL
If you have seen the recent Apple commercials with the Chicken Fat song, you will know that Apple has it’s eye on the fitness market.
Supposedly this device will have all sorts of nifty health related monitoring. Rumors are flying about heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar monitors. It will be very interesting to see what features are in the final product.
They’ve also opened up the OS a bit with their health kit API’s so other players like Niki and others can provide sensors. The Mayo Clinic is also involved. Your doc would be able to monitor a patient’s vitals from a distance.
The doc carries an iPad around the hospital instead of individual charts and has live feeds, and updated orders and observations from all staff for all his patients right at his fingertips.
Apple’s been busy building infrastructure, not just shiny new iDevices.
I'm making due with one of these -- ~ $25 < |:)~
Looks kind of gay.
I suspect the iwatch will be watching you, more than you watch it.
kind of large for a “watch”
50 million?
Is that the price?
Why yes. . . after the Obama inflation hits.
I believe they commemorate something about the time when John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. . . other than that, I haven't got a clue
I was on vacation in Aruba last week. I actually mentioned to my wife how many people were wearing watches. I had not seen that many watches on people, young, old, rich, middle..there were watches all over the place.
If course most of them were so gaudy that you could not see the face or the time because of the bling.
Go figure.
I am with you...I think its not going to hit. But then again, I did not see the iphone as being a success.
There’s an Infrared Detector for the iPhone somewhere on the internet.
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