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Apple's Upcoming Wearable Device Not Likely to Ship Until Early 2015
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Who in their right mind is holding off on buying a competing product if they own an iPhone when it wouldn't even function?
It's true they often did it with entirely new product lines but the situation here is a bit different. There are many competitors out there trying to get into wearables with many products already shipping and if the lead time between the announcement and the actual availability is too long it will give the others time to copy whatever Apple will show.
I'm sure they are not doing this entirely by choice (if this rumor is true that is). There have been multiple rumors of production issues and this would be the only reason to delay the launch to 2015 as opposed to, say, early December.
hahahahaha it will it won't it will it won't it will it won't it will it won't.....
NO ONE OUTSIDE APPLE KNOWS IF THIS DEVICE WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE 9TH!! FACT!!
NO ONE OUTSIDE APPLE KNOWS IF THIS DEVICE WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE 9TH!! FACT!!
The recent rumors have not been the same iWatch crap. Three very reliable sources have now said they iWatch (or whatever it will be called) will debut 9/9 and at least two of those sources said it will not release until 2015.
All of those rumors are relatively recent and likely accurate. What they need to stop recycling are all of the absolutely hideous mockups. Awful stuff. Part photos are great, photo-shopped crap from fans is pointless and confuses people who aren't paying attention.
Not sure this is going to work out well for Apple
I'm as excited as anyone about the iWatch, and I hope it's brilliant and well executed. But then I think about wearing one all day...I don't want to wear something on both wrists, i don't want to wear it next to my current watch, and I'm certainly not going to give up my beautiful individual bit of Swiss style and engineering for a ubiquitous bit of tech worn by everyone else.
Which brings me to another point...I'm sure the ubiquity of the iPhone is due in no small part to the phone companies subsidising the phones so that self-deluding punters like me can pretend "I got it free from Orange". This looks like it's going to be a more expensive piece of kit than you average iPod - how many people are going to pay a full unsubsidised price for it?
I'm as excited as anyone about the iWatch, and I hope it's brilliant and well executed. But then I think about wearing one all day...I don't want to wear something on both wrists, i don't want to wear it next to my current watch, and I'm certainly not going to give up my beautiful individual bit of Swiss style and engineering for a ubiquitous bit of tech worn by everyone else.
Which brings me to another point...I'm sure the ubiquity of the iPhone is due in no small part to the phone companies subsidising the phones so that self-deluding punters like me can pretend "I got it free from Orange". This looks like it's going to be a more expensive piece of kit than you average iPod - how many people are going to pay a full unsubsidised price for it?
Oooh! quit it with the dumb rumors. It will come when it comes.
I just hate it when expectations build and then break down.
Learn this and you won't have to break down next time:
No production leak = no production started = later ship date
As soon as Apple start production the leaks are a sure thing. Just look at the massive amount of iPhone 6 leaks. When they want to keep something secret they have to unveil it before they start the production and thus the ship date is months away.
Not so sure about that, I think Re/code has good sources. Maybe Apple need until 2015 and will miss the holiday season, but by announcing it now they at least make it hard for competitors this season.
The iWatch rumors are already getting in my nerves!
What you said Is so true... The more people involved, the harder to keep the secret.
Apple have already said that 2014 would have the greatest product lineup in 20 years. That is - greater than 2010(iPad), 2007(iPhone), 2001(iPod) and 1998(iMac).
I really don't thing they meant the addition of a small speed bump to their laptops, a bigger screen on their phones and Touch ID to the iPad. That lineup would debatably be one of their poorest years.
I really don't thing they meant the addition of a small speed bump to their laptops, a bigger screen on their phones and Touch ID to the iPad. That lineup would debatably be one of their poorest years.
Yea its true that Eddy Cue and Tim Cook said that, however I can't see Apple announcing anything other, than the iPhone 6 and possibly the iWatch. The iPads and new Macs will probably be announced at a separate event in October/November.
Hopefully the iWatch will be the most revolutionary, since it will practically be a part of our bodies it has the potential to completely change our lifestyles. Maybe not in the first generation but in the future wearables will most likely be independent devices much more powerful than anything we could imagine.