Hands on med Apple Watch

[cfnissen]

Willy,

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I believe we are working from different definitions of the word rant. In my world, it qualified due to the language used and the tone of voice.

For the record, I love honest opinions and the exchange of them

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I certainly agree that the future of wearables will take many forms as technology evolves - just as our beloved watches moved from the pocket to the wrist. Voice will probably play a big role here.

What I see Apple doing is placing their bet based on their particular strengths in materials, tech, production, brand, etc. Again, this is version 1.0. Let's see how far it will go. To me these are exiting times. The battle has only just begun. And yes, one curse of technology is rapid extinction as new tech emerges.

And now back to our mechanical wonders. Personaliy, I do not see the Apple Watch/wearable competing with the traditional higher-end mechanical watches. They are bought for entirely different reasons. Just look at my first picture - the Apple Watches are very, very distant cousins to the real watch in that picture. They are probably only related through their common use of straps

But the fight for the wrist will probably hit the lower-end watches, maybe only the more basic quartz models. But again, this remains to be seen. It will surely intensify the battle for the many completely naked wrists out there. Nothing new there.

Claus