G+_George Kozi Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Quick question: Given that everybody is waiting for Apple to come out with a watch, what would be the value of the Apple watch, without Google Now? N.B. this is a serious question. Everybody that has a watch thingy now, quickly ends up talking about Google Now and what it delivers to the wrist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 That's the thing, the watch is only the delivery system for the highly integrated Google services Leviatan. Apple doesn't have anything like that. So the watch they come out with may be all shiny and pretty, but it will also be dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eric Shoe Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I'm an apple fan at heart (slowly being converted). Google now is the most impressive thing done in the mobile space since the iPhone. Apple will have to copy or innovate in a way never seen to keep up. I went on a traveling vacation and saw google now in action everyday with highlights if locations updated weather and parking, local transit help. Was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 The promise is that they have been working on Siri for this watch expanding its capabilities, that's a big IF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Eng. Jorge Santana even if f they do, what they don't have is the data and the algorhytms. Google has been getting to know us for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Apple is selling privacy in their ecosystem, as long as what the Siri watch can do is useful enough they actually don't need the data IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lateef Alabi-Oki Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 You're forgetting the demographics. Most people are going to buy the Apple watch because it's Apple. Pundits are already asserting the iWatch is better than the Android wear watches even though it doesn't exist. The Apple watch merely needs to have an Apple logo and it'll be heralded as the best thing since slice bread by the heavily biased tech media. The Gilmore Gang podcast, for example, has already declared victory for the mythical iWatch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Roland Jay Roberts Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 It's definitely a good question, George Kozi . They don't (as far as we know!) have the data for a Google-now type service. And that is the killer feature of Android Wear. Relevant information at the appropriate time and place. Roderick Omari For health related features, i would expect the watch to gather info, not display it. And given the health-related rumors that have been surfacing, that may be where their focus will be. Eng. Jorge Santana Well, there will be apple fans who buy an apple watch regardless of what it does or doesn't do. The question is, can they have a significant "wow" feature? Health monitoring really isn't "wow", IMHO. That's been done for years, with increasingly shrinking tech. If it is accurate enough to actually be used as a medical device, that would be somewhat Wow - they have to go through the FDA approval process for that. and the real "wow" would be keeping all that under wraps if a fall release was planned. If it isn't that, then it's just a novelty feature. So what else could it do? Take photos? Control music? Allow you to dictate texts? Place calls? All done by one or more of the current crop of smart watches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Doc Funkinstein Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 The better question since Android has what 80% of the market. What kind of impact can an apple smart watch have since they don't have metric shit ton of people to sell them too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tor Iver Wilhelmsen Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I strongly doubt the half af that Android market share that got a cheap underpowered device can afford an Android watch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Leasure Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I live in a rural area and Google Now is pointless here. So an Apple watch without Google Now would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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