Forbes: Apple Planted iWatch ''Leaks'' on Purpose

[robochump]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]What about the tons of other smartwatches already on sale? And please do tell me which device Apple currently has that didn't took ideas from other manufacturers?[/citation]
Have you actually seen the smart watches available now? Garbage bro!!

 

[dextermat]

looks way too metro sexual to me.

 

[Solandri]

[citation][nom]goodegg[/nom]Why is it Apple's responsibility to create the next new product? Why can't Samsung or Microsoft or Sony come up with the next big thing (tm)?[/citation]
It's certainly not their responsibility to create the next new product. But they've been going around for years now saying "We invented all this neat stuff, and these other guys just keep copying us." People are just saying put up or shut up.

 

[mavikt]

[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]looks way too metro sexual to me.[/citation]
Are you implying that it might run Windows 8?! 😀

 

[K2N hater]

Whatever... These gadgets aren't replacing my Omega.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]Have you actually seen the smart watches available now? Garbage bro!![/citation]
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/

 

[lancelot123]

"Apple really hasn't invented anything new [strike]since the debut of the original iPad[/strike]"

Fixed that for you.

 

[Pherule]

[citation][nom]oxiide[/nom]Awesome attention span. If you care enough to expect others to explain it, you care enough to just read it.[/citation]
I don't like Apple products, hence why.

It's not about the attention span. I just have better things to do than read an entire page of Apple garbage.

 

[eijiyuki]

Hasn't this been created by Nokia 10 yrs ago?

 

[phate1337]

wont happen.

 

[centerbattery]

will apple bring us bling new?

 

[JayMan2005]

This news item pretty much summarizes Apple's plight since Jobs' exit. The company does not have anywhere near the mind-share it once had. "Round and round she goes down the gurgler..."

 

[DjEaZy]

... Apple Planted iWatch ''Leaks'' on Purpose? Everybody does that now... just type Leaks in Toms search...

 

[allanitomwesh]

It's ridiculous that Americans still believe iPhones are awesome. If anything,the iPhone 5 does not make the top 10 list in any Chinese websites,and they are the loyal buyers. This is the beginning of the end.

 

[soundping]

Why wear a watch when you already have a smartphone?

 

[allanitomwesh]

"Apple really hasn't invented anything new [strike]since the debut of the original iPad[/strike]"

Fixed that for you.

Classic

 

[cats_Paw]

Inesrt "you dont say" meme here 😀.

 

[jmgalanter]

[citation][nom]goodegg[/nom]Why is it Apple's responsibility to create the next new product? Why can't Samsung or Microsoft or Sony come up with the next big thing (tm)? I'd LOVE to see the Google goggles become a reality as long as they can look like a normal pair of glasses so I don't look like a complete tool walking around with them on. A watch device that works would be a welcome device. Way fewer people would be asking for everyone's number AGAIN on facebook because they can't drop their watch into the toilet.[/citation]
Apple isn't exactly coming up with anything new here.... smart watches have been done... Sony beat Apple to this... Sony has the LiveView line of smart watches that sync with Android phones. There's also the SVP G13 smart watch and an Android 2.2 based smartphone watch....as well as the Victor Q8 and various other Android based smartwatch/watchphone models.... Apple is actually pretty late to this particular market.

You can say the same thing about most of Apple's products. They were not the first company to make an MP3 player, they weren't the first company to have a smart phone, they weren't the first company to have a super-thin laptop, and they weren't the first company with a tablet. What they did do is put together the right combination of design and user interface to make those products wildly popular for the first time. Apple figured out how to overcome whatever limitations those products had to wide public acceptance. Apple figured out how to I have no idea whether Apple planted a "smart watch" or not. And there is no guarantee that if they are, it will be successful (my instinct is that smart-watches aren't going to take off no matter who designs them because they are as much fashion as they are tools). But if they are wildly successful, it will follow a similar pattern as their other successes where they weren't necessarily the first, just the first to do it in a commercially successful manner.

It is interesting though, that for better or worse, Apple has built this expectation that it will develop a category defining product and that if it doesn't do so, it is somehow a disappointment. It's not like since Apple debuted the iPad any other company has developed a must have category defining gadget (Google might soon, with Google glass, though we'll see if that category takes off).

 

[cats_Paw]

Insert "you dont say" meme here.

 

[ubercake]

[citation][nom]goodegg[/nom]Why is it Apple's responsibility to create the next new product? Why can't Samsung or Microsoft or Sony come up with the next big thing (tm)? I'd LOVE to see the Google goggles become a reality as long as they can look like a normal pair of glasses so I don't look like a complete tool walking around with them on. A watch device that works would be a welcome device. Way fewer people would be asking for everyone's number AGAIN on facebook because they can't drop their watch into the toilet.[/citation]
Apple isn't exactly coming up with anything new here.... smart watches have been done... Sony beat Apple to this... Sony has the LiveView line of smart watches that sync with Android phones. There's also the SVP G13 smart watch and an Android 2.2 based smartphone watch....as well as the Victor Q8 and various other Android based smartwatch/watchphone models.... Apple is actually pretty late to this particular market.

You can say the same thing about most of Apple's products. They were not the first company to make an MP3 player, they weren't the first company to have a smart phone, they weren't the first company to have a super-thin laptop, and they weren't the first company with a tablet. What they did do is put together the right combination of design and user interface to make those products wildly popular for the first time. Apple figured out how to overcome whatever limitations those products had to wide public acceptance. Apple figured out how to I have no idea whether Apple planted a "smart watch" or not. And there is no guarantee that if they are, it will be successful (my instinct is that smart-watches aren't going to take off no matter who designs them because they are as much fashion as they are tools). But if they are wildly successful, it will follow a similar pattern as their other successes where they weren't necessarily the first, just the first to do it in a commercially successful manner.

It is interesting though, that for better or worse, Apple has built this expectation that it will develop a category defining product and that if it doesn't do so, it is somehow a disappointment. It's not like since Apple debuted the iPad any other company has developed a must have category defining gadget (Google might soon, with Google glass, though we'll see if that category takes off).

It's really not the products that make Apple successful. It's about status and the insatiable desire to have the newest of their products at any given moment. Their products are a fashion statement.

It all boils down to marketing. Apple has a in-'Genius' marketing team. They have put technology into places you wouldn't find them only ten years ago... they have successfully taken products that have been historically reserved for geeks and males and put them into purses. That is awesome. Now guys are complaining their girlfriends play too much candy crush and are staring at their phones or iPads all of the time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Apple fan whatsoever, myself, but they have convinced new markets to have a need for their products. Apple has an amazing marketing team.

 

[cabriovw]

Somehow Apple manages to convince their cronies that ‘they’ are the most innovative company in the world, period. If Apple is good at anything at all is consumer brainwashing. All HAIL PLAKTON….bucket drops from roof

 

[BillGatesisyourDaddy]

[citation][nom]goodegg[/nom]....Apple is actually pretty late to this particular market.

Explain that to the iTards when the iWatch is released. There could be 500 other smart watches circulated in the market but they will believe apple did it first no matter what.