Rampant Speculation On Apple´s Watch Plans

Rampant speculation on apple´s watch plans

So is apple developing a watch?

Honestly? Who knows? I have no doubt that apple, has thought about a watch. And i have little doubt that they have even played around with the concept and put some people on it as an exploratory project. Now according to my Bloomberg news colleagues peter burrows and Adam satariano, apple has put about 100 people on the project, which would indicate something more serious than a lark. But apple is not afraid to pull the plug on things, so the future of this product still remains speculative.

Do you want to speculate, then?

Sure! I mean, i can understand the idea behind an! Watch. In some ways, i can understand it more readily than i can Google’s project glass. While getting an augmented-reality view of the world would be totally cool in that T-800 kind of way, it still requires you to wear glasses. Now, i like wearing glasses, but not everyone may feel the same – witness the sluggish adoption of 3D TV, which also requires eyewear. A watch, on the other hand, is discreet. Anyone can wear a watch.

Do you wear a watch?

Of course not. I carry my iphone with me everywhere.

What do you think a watch from apple would do? More speculation, please.

Well, i think the first thing it would do is work in tandem with an iphone. An !watch (let´s just call it that for now), would neeed to have great battery life, so marking it a self-contained computing device doesn´t make sense it would consume too much power. But as something that has a display and some basic inputs and connects wirelessly via bluetooth to the phone, where the real heavy lifting takes place? That could make the watch a more power-efficient accessory to the iphone.

Would it have a display?

I thin it would have to. Given the low-power characteristics of technologies like AMOLED (that´s active-matrix organic light emitting diode, for those playing along at home) you could create a wrist-sized touchscreen. If you forsook touch and i don´t think apple would you could go the e-paper route (think amazon kindle), which uses even less power. This is the approach taken by pebble, an independent maker of a bluetooth enabled watch that links to your smartphone and displays relevant information.

But would i be able to make phone calls on it, like dick

I´m gonna cut you off right there, if you don´t mind. I´ve placed a moratorium on references to a certain yellow-trenchcoated private detective when it comes to wristborne communications devices. That being said, i don´t necessarily think that the !watch needs or even should have, phone capabilities. In this fantasy world i have created, the !watch only works in concert with an iphone. Your phone is a good device for making calls one end is up by your ear, the other is

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