JUST ANNOUNCED: HERE’S EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THE APPLE WATCH, UPDATED WITH ALL-NEW INFORMATION

Digital Trends ^ | 03/09/2015 | Malarie Gokey

[Swordmaker]

I wonder, is it waterproof? Or are the wearers only going to wash their right hands?

No watch is "waterproof". . . only "water resistant". The AppleWatch is water resistant. Watches are rated to water resistant to specific pressures. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook:

"While on a trip in Germany to visit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and meet with a few German-based Apple staff members, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Apple Store employees in Berlin that he wears his Apple Watch constantly, "even in the shower", according to iGen.fr [Google Translate].

[Star Traveler]

Good to know!

[Mark17]

I don't think it looks "gay", not at all.

I think it looks fine, but my question is, besides looking nice, and being something I would wear on my wrist, will it do more than my iPhone already does? It appears to me, to be just an extension of my IPhone.

[Swordmaker]

Just like the new iPhone the apple watch will have features that the Samsung watch has had for at least a year but apple and the media will act like it is new technology

It also has many features the Samsung watch just doesn't have. . . and before the Samsung watch was ever thought about an Apple engineer was interviewed "off the record" about what Apple was working on next, and he spoke about a "possible" AppleWatch and what it would be including. Immediately, like the next week no less, Samsung announced they were going to make a watch too, with the same features as were listed in the Apple engineer's interview. Gee. Who'd a thunks it from Samsung? I thought Samsung's announcement was hilarious.

[Swordmaker]

RE: To save the iWatch Apple needs to sync it with iGlasses

I don’t think I’ve ever read anything about an Apple product called iGlasses...

I also don't think I've ever heard of an iWatch either.

[Star Traveler]

Samsung is a “me too” company ... just slapping together “features” that they scope out and copy from competition, and slapping it together, no matter what ... LOL ...

They don’t have the finesse of the product that Apple does, they don’t have the quality and they don’t have the ecosystem.

I mean ... is Samsung NOW going to announce their “ResearchKit” ... since Apple just did today??! ... :-) ...

[Swordmaker]

I would expect it to be this way (a guess on my part), that it can withstand rain, but that it’s not going to withstand sustained use in a shower (they’re going to say, “Don’t take a shower with it” ... but they’re not going to say, “Don’t go out in the rain with it.”).

Safe for shower, not for swimming. That's what I hear. Tim Cook says he showers with his on.

[Star Traveler]

Now that’s cool ... and it’s great for the usage that people will put it through. I’m glad to hear Apple has done that. I haven’t gotten to the part where the Apple Watch is talked about ... yet ... on today’s event. I’m watching it in pieces ... :-) ...

[Swordmaker]

My view is that, Apple might be worth a lot of money right now, and perhaps they’re a company worth, perhaps, $200-400 billion, and not as much as it’s worth on paper now. I base by view and calculations on the simple fact that, Apple is basically a one-horse show, with iPHones. Once iPhone drop from the clouds, Apple will become just another high-tech company, like HP and Dell and Samsung and LG.

And you ignore everything else they make. That makes you very ignorant. Apple has $190 BILLION in cash, so you claim at minimum, the company is worth $10 Billion. You math is way off. Apple has $240 in hard assets: land, buildings, and equipment. . . irrespective of good will. That totals to $430 BILLION in book value. . . so you are quite wrong already on your HIGH END of $400 BILLION. Two companies that value TRADE MARK value, the most valuable in the world, and Good Will place Apple's Trade Mark value at between $90 BILLION and $119 BILLION, taking the lower value of that we are now at $520 BILLION in book value. . .

I don't know what kind of math you are using, but it is NO WHERE NEAR real world math. I'm wearing my Economist hat and my ex-CEO hat and frankly, you've demonstrated you haven't a clue about how to value stocks or companies.

Apple at the current price and Market Cap is just around 9 times Earnings. That is very low. YOU want Apple to be selling for between 2.27 times Earnings and 4.54 times Earnings.

If those idiotic PEs were the case, Apple would be in danger of a hostile take over bid. . . BIG TIME. . . and the stockholders would be in revolt, assailing the board room with pitchforks and torches calling for the heads of upper management.

As it was, when the price was lower Carl Icahn was screaming about how under valued Apple stock was. . . and demanded stock buy backs because it was so undervalued!

Apple has returned over $225 BILLION to the stockholders in dividends and stock buy backs in the past two years. . . and you still think Apple's OVER HYPED!?

Keep beating on your dead horse, adorno:

Adorno,
hoping his anti-Apple hobby horse
will get up and win the race!

[Swordmaker]

I think it looks fine, but my question is, besides looking nice, and being something I would wear on my wrist, will it do more than my iPhone already does? It appears to me, to be just an extension of my IPhone.

It has the sensors your iPhone lacks for HealthKit to keep track of your health, fitness, and exercising. It can provide payment through ApplePay without getting your iPhone out of your pocket or purse. You can answer your iPhone or initiate a phone call without getting your iPhone out of your pocket or purse. You can see and respond to messages without getting your iPhone out of your pocket or purse. It can provide Maps directions without getting your phone out of your pocket or purse. You can ask SIRI questions and get answers without getting your iPhone out of your pocket or purse. You can enter a hotel room without a key. Clear airlines without a boarding pass. . . control your AppleTV. . . and a host of other things right on your wrist.

There are thousands of AppleWatch only apps ready to go for the AppleWatch on launch.

[Swordmaker]

I mean ... is Samsung NOW going to announce their “ResearchKit” ... since Apple just did today??! ... :-) ...

Samsung doesn't have to. Apple made ResarchKit open source for anyone to use under Commons license.

[Star Traveler]

LOL ... I wrote that before I got to that spot in the video ... :-) ...

[Jane Long]

First time I've seen a photo gif on Drudge, I believe.

[Swordmaker]

What we know about the AppleWatch Edition's Gold. Apple has re-invented gold for their new gold watch, twice as hard, yet lighter. . . But still 18 karat gold!

[BRK]

I am not anti-apple...I have iphones, ipads, macbooks, and even a few ipods laying arounds somewhere. But I am not a fanboy either. I use Windows 8 and 10 on all my desktops and game machines.
My opinion of the watch is that I probably won’t be getting one. It’s too thick for starters and looks like a rounded off ipod nano made into a watch that already existed 4 years ago and was for nerds at the time.
I expect to see Paris Hilton sporting the $17,000 Red Band Edition watch, but that won’t sway me I don’t think. I always have my phone with me, so why do I need a watch connected to my phone that’s in my pocket? It’s not even a heirloom that you can pass down either. It will age and the batteries will die and will wind up in the back of a drawer like my old 60 gb ipod.

[roadcat]

Throwing my hat in with the “iCan” - toilet with apple logo on it and a microchip taped on just so it’s high-tech.

I wish people would stop calling it the "iWatch". Apple stopped naming new products with an "i" in front a while ago (other than revisions of existing products). The "iWatch" name is owned by another company (Swatch?), so Apple named it "Apple Watch". They say the "i" is no longer necessary on newer products. For instance they've been selling the "Apple TV" puck for many years now, no "iTV" on it. Same with their routers and other gear, no "i" in front of them. So no, their car won't be named the Apple "iCarE" (I made that up a while ago for their version of an electric car).

[BunnySlippers]

I have heard that Nordstrom will retail the watch.

I would imagine Apple would retail the $349 sports edition out of their stores. Do you think they’ll retail the higher priced ones out of Nordstrom? Or the other way around?

[BunnySlippers]

Oops, looks like that is still a rumor.

[Swordmaker]

It’s too thick for starters and looks like a rounded off ipod nano made into a watch that already existed 4 years ago and was for nerds at the time.

It's half a millimeter thicker than a Rolex.