You can also short cut the system by spray painting your $400 Apple Watch with some $20 paint to make it look nearly identical to the $10k Gold Apple Watch
Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
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Re: Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
#12Every restriction that Apple made makes total sense for the short/medium term. Watch faces need to be impeccably programmed or are likely to dramatically reduce battery life (some of the existing ones use OpenGL). Developers shouldn't be redefining the behaviour of force touch or digital crown before users have had a chance to properly learn them and access to heart rate surely had FDA implications. Tim Cook has stat…
They will probably "unlock" all the features you want in the upcoming version so people will buy those to have things that should have been there from the beginning.
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#13It's pretty exciting to anticipate how developers might do innovative things with the Watch...but until then, I'm pretty bearish of the device as something of real utility. It's not just the particulars of Apple's execution and implementation, but just that the physical form factor of a watch inherently limits it...and the coolest things we've seen watches do in fiction, such as Dick Tracy's wrist-walkie-talkie, are done just fine via smartphone. And glancing at your watch all the time is not much less of a social interruption than pulling out your phone.
What annoys me in reading consumer-facing reviews of the product is how much of the perceived potential is through things that should be done by software...for example, the ability to filter notifications from the phone...there's no reason why a second (or third, fourth, etc) layer of notification triage can't be implemented as a phone setting...in fact, I think iPhone's Do Not Disturb mode is fantastically better done than its Android equivalent. But to think that the Watch, or any ancillary device, is needed to inherently solve the problem of filtering information overload...it's as if rather than developing better spam filters, email providers just encouraged consumers to make multiple email accounts to handle the deluge.
So hopefully Apple increasingly opens up the API for developers, to do things far beyond what Apple has anticipated in its marketing plan.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably developers who want to make money off a "free" sales model. In an age of widely-known popular logos, might not take much space at all to render an "ad". The exclusion of ads from the Watch could (wild speculation here) point to a future without ads in the Apple ecosystem. Ads are typically obnoxious, tolerated only because the host app is free. Given their very un-Apple-like feel, maybe there's a plan to wea…
Such a plan, I think, would require another method of monetization. Paid apps as a monetization strategy has failed. Advertising I think is failing too. Free with in-app purchase is making a lot of money but people don't like it. This is a big challenge for apple.
Some data to back your assertions up ?
App store revenue has been increasing constantly since its launch.
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/15/app-store-google-play-re...
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/27/app-store-record-growth-...
I agree that it has problems (visibility of quality apps, abundance of trashy apps, high competition) but profitability does not seem to be one of them.
EDIT: (Answer to TorKlinberg below) I guess so, I don't see why it should not figure. "People don't like it" it's just an opinion which I don't see being backed up by data, in the end people "like" with their wallets.
Re: Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
#15Every restriction that Apple made makes total sense for the short/medium term. Watch faces need to be impeccably programmed or are likely to dramatically reduce battery life (some of the existing ones use OpenGL). Developers shouldn't be redefining the behaviour of force touch or digital crown before users have had a chance to properly learn them and access to heart rate surely had FDA implications. Tim Cook has stat…
Watch further establishes people into the Walled Garden which is Apple.
I still think people just don't wear watches will cause watches to be a very minimal form of wearables.
I seriously would wear a bracelet that had a larger usable surface and longer battery life and faster cpu :)
Re: Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
#16Every restriction that Apple made makes total sense for the short/medium term. Watch faces need to be impeccably programmed or are likely to dramatically reduce battery life (some of the existing ones use OpenGL). Developers shouldn't be redefining the behaviour of force touch or digital crown before users have had a chance to properly learn them and access to heart rate surely had FDA implications. Tim Cook has stat…
Watch further establishes people into the Walled Garden which is Apple. I still think people just don't wear watches will cause watches to be a very minimal form of wearables. I seriously would wear a bracelet that had a larger usable surface and longer battery life and faster cpu :)
Walled Garden. I like the metaphors.
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#17iAd support on apple watch is a stupid idea. who wants to show ads on a watch?
Notification style advertisements, that bubble up as you move about could be a gold mine if users could get over the potential privacy concerns.
Advertising models like this (contextual notification powered offers) must exist for smartphones already - anyone know the leader in this segment?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watch further establishes people into the Walled Garden which is Apple. I still think people just don't wear watches will cause watches to be a very minimal form of wearables. I seriously would wear a bracelet that had a larger usable surface and longer battery life and faster cpu :)
Walled Garden. I like the metaphors.
It's an old metaphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology)
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such a plan, I think, would require another method of monetization. Paid apps as a monetization strategy has failed. Advertising I think is failing too. Free with in-app purchase is making a lot of money but people don't like it. This is a big challenge for apple.
Some data to back your assertions up ? App store revenue has been increasing constantly since its launch. http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/15/app-store-google-play-re... http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/27/app-store-record-growth-... I agree that it has problems (visibility of quality apps, abundance of trashy apps, high competition) but profitability does not seem to be one of them. EDIT: (Answer to TorKlinberg belo…
App store revenue includes in-app purchases, right?
Does Apple publish the percentage of revenue that is from in-app purchases, and specifically game microtransactions?
Re: Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
#20Apparently you can't do a lot of things with it if you have tattoos on your wrist:
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/344b3o/anyone_with_ta...