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You Guys Realize The Apple Watch Is Going To Flop, Right?
Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons. Apple has become a perennial hit maker, the company other companies copy. Apple really gets design. In the past 14 years, it has given us the iPod (the prototypical MP3 player), the iPhone (the prototypical smartphone), the Macbook Air (the prototypical laptop), and the iPad (the prototypical tablet).
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The Apple Watch's Insanely Great Economics
The most compelling case you can make for the Apple Watch is that it frees us from our phones: the ones Apple sold us. No longer will we have to pull them out to hail Ubers, check Instagram, or send texts. As TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino elegantly points out, “There are very few products that allow you to hand someone cash and be given back time. This will be the Apple Watch metric to track: time saved.”
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Your Apple Watch can now open your hotel room door at over 100 Starwood Hotels
Starwood Hotels has allowed guests to use their iPhone as their room key since last November, and today announced that guests can now use the group’s Apple Watch app to unlock room doors at more than 100 properties. You can also use the app to get directions to the hotel and to check-in.
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We destroyed the Apple Watch
A drop test and water test prove the Apple Watch can take a good beating.
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11 Things About The Apple Watch That May Surprise You
Apple’s much anticipated new smartwatch has finally landed at its ultimate destination: on the arms of consumers. As the earliest adopters get busy binding their wrists, practicing their “force touches” and updating their iPhone apps to work with the wearable, we took stock of a few interesting details that have clocked in with the Apple Watch’s arrival.
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Apple Watch: Faulty Taptic Engine Slows Roll Out
The taptic engine, a key component of the Apple Watch, made by one of two suppliers was found to be defective, prompting Apple to limit the availability of its highly anticipated smartwatch.
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Apple confirms that tattoos are a problem for the Apple Watch
n an updated support document, Apple has acknowledged what some new Apple Watch owners quickly discovered over the last week: the Watch may not work properly for those with tattoos. The Watch's heart-rate monitor works by shining infrared or green light through the skin, but tattoos can interfere with that and prevent the Watch from getting a reading.
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Apple Watch giveaway (choose your own): enter for a chance to win
Enter for your chance to win an Apple Watch, you pick the model and strap of your choice up to a value of $750 in this giveaway.
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UNBOXED: the 18-karat gold Apple watch edition
See what perks come with Apple's most expensive product in history.
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Pebble Time vs. Apple Watch
With the retail version of Pebble Time launching, maybe you're torn between it and the Apple Watch? Let's compare the features and specs of the two smartwatches.
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It is simply too early to call the Apple Watch a flop
Today, the Apple Watch is a relatively expensive toy—with some early utility—for curious people. It is silly to call it a massive success yet, but it is equally foolish to call it a flop. It is simply too early, and not enough is known.
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Here Are the Best Bands for Your Apple Watch
So many choices, so much time.
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Heart patient: Apple Watch got me in and out of hospital fast
A patient self-diagnosed a serious heart ailment while on vacation, based on Apple Watch data.
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Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years
U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.’s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces. Retailers sold $375 million of watches during the month, 11 percent less than in June 2014, according to data from NPD Group. The 14 percent decline in unit sales was the largest since 2008, according to Fred Levin, head of the market researcher’s luxury division.
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Apple suffers a blow in its patent war against Samsung
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is reexamining one of the key patents in the battle between Apple and Samsung. Specifically, it is claiming that design patent D618677 — essentially the front of the iPhone 3G — was not sufficiently described by Apple. The decision could affect the size of the damages that Samsung is supposed to pay Apple, but a final number won't be determined for a while as the case is still with the courts awaiting a third trial.
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Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug
Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We will not release watchOS 2 today but will shortly.” Given that watchOS 2 is a high profile release for Apple, a relatively important system must have been affected.
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Google Maps now works on the Apple Watch
If you're someone who opens Google Maps on your iPhone every day, you'll be glad to hear that getting directions on Apple Watch no longer requires using Apple's own app. Today Google rolled out an update for its iOS Maps app that adds a companion app for your wrist. And while choice is always good, Google seems to have put in a pretty minimal amount of effort for this first release. Driving directions require you to...
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Exploring Apple’s 3D Touch
I was pretty giddy when Apple revealed 3D Touch at their September event. In a past work-life, I was working with TouchCo’s developer kit at around the same time that Roger Linn was experimenting with the ideas that would become the Linnstrument. TouchCo got bought, my project morphed from hardware to software as the company turned into Zya, and I moved onto other things, putting the interest and ambition in gesture control on the backburner.
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Not Even Silicon Valley Insiders Have Bought Apple Watches
More than a year ago now, Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable company, announced the Apple Watch—the biggest addition to its product line since the iPhone nearly a decade earlier. In our poll of 101 tech-industry leaders, we asked: So, uh, do you have one? Nearly everyone responded to this question, and for such a tech-savvy audience, their reply does not look good for Apple. Exactly 70 percent of respondents said they did not own a Watch.
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Apple Watch is 'showing signs of life' among holiday shoppers
The Apple Watch is "showing signs of life" heading into the holiday shopping season, according to channel-checks by FBR Capital Market's analyst Daniel Ives. With Black Friday underway and a continued shopping fervor still ahead, Ives writes in a note to investors this morning that observations at various Apple store as well as Target and Best Buy show customer interest — and willingness to shell out at least $349 for the cheapest version of the watch — ramping up.
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