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Apple’s Planned IWatch this year with custom iOS

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/04/2013 06:43 PM | source: | 24 comment(s)
Apple’s Planned IWatch this year with custom iOS

Apple’s Planned IWatch will be released this year with custom iOS, More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to a Bloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources. Bloomberg says the watch project has long been a favorite of Apple design chief Jony Ive, who reportedly ordered "boxes" of Nike sports watches for his team to study a few years ago.

The Verge reports:

That's perfectly in line with what we've heard about the watch project, which we're told is being led by Ive himself with some 100 engineers under him. Interestingly, we're also told that Apple's chosen to rework the full iOS to run on the watch instead of building up the iPod nano's proprietary touch operating system — although the previous nano was already watch-sized and seemed like a great starting point for a wrist-sized device, Apple's betting on iOS across product lines.That's apparently leading to battery life issues in development, according to our sources: the goal is to last at least 4-5 days between charges, but the current watch prototypes are apparently only going for a couple days max. We're also told Apple has some work to do with iOS on the iPhone, which currently has several hooks for supporting a watch-like device but lacks the appropriate interface or settings to make it work properly. The Pebble watch, for example, can receive notifications from third-party iOS apps with a slight hack, but it has to be redone every time the Bluetooth connection breaks.

Obviously Apple has time to resolve these issues, just as it had to when it reworked OS X to work on the iPhone instead of building up the iPod's operating system in the late 2000s. And it should be motivated to resolve these problems quickly: financial analysts are already starting to latch onto watch rumors as a growth opportunity for Apple's battered stock price since the fabled TV project looks increasingly unlikely in the current media climate. (That Bloomberg report is headlined "Apple's Planned 'iWatch' Could Be More Profitable Than TV," in case any investors missed the underlying subtlety.) And Google is promising that its high-concept Glass wearable device will be out this year, lending momentum to a market segment that's remained essentially untapped for years but which has flared to life as indie projects like the Pebble, MetaWatch, and others find success with early adopters.



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mackintosh
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#4544123 Posted on: 03/04/2013 11:43 PM
I still don't understand the craze with this sort of thing. Why don't you just pull your phone out of your pocket?


You'd be surprised how many business deals get closed faster when you're wearing an expensive watch.

Loophole35
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#4544127 Posted on: 03/04/2013 11:46 PM
You'd be surprised how many business deals get closed faster when you're wearing an expensive watch.


To your point Rolex> Apple anyway.

mackintosh
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#4544135 Posted on: 03/04/2013 11:59 PM
To your point Rolex> Apple anyway.


Of course. Merely pointing out that watches are status symbols / fashion accessories these days. I'm sure an Apple watch will carry weight in whatever circles it will be considered desirable.

sykozis
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#4544148 Posted on: 03/05/2013 12:13 AM
prob saw this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android

and decided they needed to get in on dat.

More like they saw this... http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/accessories/smartwatch/

Chillin
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#4544188 Posted on: 03/05/2013 01:17 AM
More like they saw this... http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/accessories/smartwatch/


Or this:
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/8GB-or-16GB-MOTOACTV/79070,en_US,pd.html

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