Personally, I feel Apple should admit they got it wrong--on so many levels. Just let it die. Let companies like Pebble give it a go?
Drop the whole concept of a smart watch. Work on getting that iPhone small enough, so it can be strapped to a wrist.
If they insist on keeping this product; get the price down, and do a complete redesign.
(I know they don't want to canabilize iPhone sales, but that would be years away? I would actually strap a 1 x 3 inch devise to my forearm--if I could make calls, and access the Internet. That's something I might buy?)
One another note, to mechanical watch enthusiasts; I found a vintage IWC cal. 89 in a box of old broken watches. It is so old the paint on the face was worn away. I only noticed a fish on the crown. I don't think the watch has ever been servised? It's probally from the 50's. I'm in the process of getting its history from IWC. I literally thought it was a old, cheap Timex. I was bored one night, and wound it. It wound rather smoothly? "No--it must be a cheap watch, with a fish on the crown? A Horologist tossed it in the spare parts bin years ago?". Well, a day later, it was keeping perfect time? I was shocked? I timed it on a Viborgraph, and it was keeping time with an error rate of 1 min/day. They built this movement for longevity? IWC still has parts for this movement. I could pass along this watch to my nephew, and he could wear it another 70 years? (Dillon--you don't know me, and I'm sorry. Me and your father had a falling out. You seem like a great kid! This watch is yours when I pass, which may be soon?). Apple--this is why some of us love our watches. This actually happened last week. Sorry about using HN as a diary? I don't have anyone to talk to anymore.
I doubt that Apple are doing the wrong thing, I suspect that people will buy into it because they are high tech, wealthy, innovators and some will buy it because they already have invested several thousand dollars in the company via all the devices and others will buy it for status reasons.
But it will be a good thing in the end, it will change things, like the iPod and the iPhone - cheaper and better alternatives will be created, perhaps even devices that are designed for use in developing countries where length of life and hardiness are the main features.
Drop the whole concept of a smart watch. Work on getting that iPhone small enough, so it can be strapped to a wrist.
If they insist on keeping this product; get the price down, and do a complete redesign.
(I know they don't want to canabilize iPhone sales, but that would be years away? I would actually strap a 1 x 3 inch devise to my forearm--if I could make calls, and access the Internet. That's something I might buy?)
One another note, to mechanical watch enthusiasts; I found a vintage IWC cal. 89 in a box of old broken watches. It is so old the paint on the face was worn away. I only noticed a fish on the crown. I don't think the watch has ever been servised? It's probally from the 50's. I'm in the process of getting its history from IWC. I literally thought it was a old, cheap Timex. I was bored one night, and wound it. It wound rather smoothly? "No--it must be a cheap watch, with a fish on the crown? A Horologist tossed it in the spare parts bin years ago?". Well, a day later, it was keeping perfect time? I was shocked? I timed it on a Viborgraph, and it was keeping time with an error rate of 1 min/day. They built this movement for longevity? IWC still has parts for this movement. I could pass along this watch to my nephew, and he could wear it another 70 years? (Dillon--you don't know me, and I'm sorry. Me and your father had a falling out. You seem like a great kid! This watch is yours when I pass, which may be soon?). Apple--this is why some of us love our watches. This actually happened last week. Sorry about using HN as a diary? I don't have anyone to talk to anymore.