The iWatch is real!
No it's not - it's called Apple Watch
And frankly it's pretty disappointing. Forgot all those wraparound OLED screens - it's just like other smartwatches.
Actually, no - it's worse. To
do anything with it, you have to also have an iPhone with you. Not just "be in Wifi" or "have a phone to tether to" - no, it has to be an iPhone, and specifically a pretty recent one. Without the phone - and if I have the phone, why do I need a watch? - the device has pretty limited functionality.
Sure, it's fancy and polished but - $350? Every critique prior to release is still accurate. Without iPhone, it's just a very fancy FitBit. With iPhone, it's a toy.
I do think it will find a home among pretentious emo teens. "Oh, I can feel my boyfriend's heartbeat on my wrist - his ACTUAL HEARTBEAT!" When they announced that I about fell out of my chair laughing.
BTW, what was with all the comparisons to the original iPhone? I swear that most the numbers were "compared to the original iPhone" - which makes me suspect the 6 is not much more impressive than the 5S.
Today was a big "meh", which is what I expected. Apple has been stuck in neutral innovation-wise since the iPhone 3GS, really...other than faster/smaller/sleeker, the current iPhone and iPad are not that much different than they ever were.
Which is OK - I like my iPhone, though mainly because it's from work and free. Apple's mobile devices work OK and last and for what I need, they're fine.
I do wish their crack engineers would somehow surmount the inscrutable engineering problem of taking the video playlists feature from the iPod Classic and somehow, somewhat, through some miracle manhattan project, include that feature in iOS.
