James Bond, Dick Tracy, Batman, Penny from Inspector Gadget, Star Wars, Star Trek, Spy Kids, Men in Black, what do these characters, TV shows, and movies have in common? That's right they all had cool smart watches of some type or another. Can you believe that the smart watches that we have marveled through fiction are now our reality? After dedicating some time in reading articles about the Apple Watch I believe it's a perfect example of where humanity wanted to go all along. These wearable's will find their way in the market just like the path of the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. I will be discussing the following:
- Features
- Market
- Future Market
- Will I?
Features
Price
$349 (Us)
Size
42mm (Men) or 38mm (Women/Children)
Watch Face:
Modify it to any display look you want
Time
Can be tailored on how you need it by adjusting daylight savings or time zone, cue you in on meetings/notifications, and moves
Inner Circle
Stay closer with the people you care about
Tap & Audio Cues
Feel your messages and calls that come in, in unique ways.
Suggestive Feature
Watch will help you write texts or emoji
Phone
Watch has built in speakers, can be transferred to iphone or bluetooth and motion sensor to ignore calls by covering your hand with the watch
Mail
Will be summoned to the watch can be marked read or unread or move to trash
Apple Watch Wears among other Apple Watch Wearers
Send Sketchs, walkie talkie, tap love ones, send a heartbeat
Fitness Tracker
accelerometer- measure total body movement
Custome censor for heart rate
GPS and Wifi on your Iphone to track how far you've moved,
Move Ring- Three ring graphic that measures calories burned, minutes used, stand time
Apps that encourage working out through goal, reminders, and achievements
Only daily activity will be shown iphone can show more detail on activity
Apple Pay
Pay with watch
APPS
Calendar
Maps
Passbook
Music
Apple Tv/Itunes
Camera Remote
Stop watch/timer/alarm/world clock
Stocks
Weather
Pictures
Siri
Iphone remote
Watchkit App
Glances, Actionable Notifications Watchkit apps
The market that they appear to be appealing to for now is toward the fitness market because of the convenience that wearing a watch has for fitness people instead of carrying around their clunky phones while on a jog. They can multitask task faster by keeping up with their activity with the Move Ring graphic app, accelerometer, measure heart rate and be encouraged to do so with the apps on this product. Another multitasking aspect is being apple to pay for items with the watch and I can imagine if the runner is looking to grab a bottled water while running they can forget about their wallets and just use their watch. Fitness advocates can even make phone calls while on the go.
Future Market
The potential market that this watch can go out to are nurses. I think there is a huge market for this field because of the features that the Apple Watch will incorporate on their product. I mean last time I saw my nurse practitioner I saw her use an iPad to deal with my information. How about instead of carrying around the iPad why not use the watch to take notes and keep up with their patients. For example identification, picture of patient and history mini file. By having the watch it becomes a convenient and portable technology that eliminates the use of pen and paper. This could condense the need for printed forms. Pharmaceutical, contact and reference information can be transferred from one place to the next. Nurses can communicate among themselves and if they plan on taking longer with a patient they can contact another coworker to move onto the next patient with notes on that patient. This watch could eliminate the lag time between seeing a nurse and patient, less stress, more convenient, accessibility, and multitask.
Will I? I am very interested in finding out about this Apple Watch like everyone else and I don't think I'm going to be skeptical about it at all because it will all work out in the end. I think it represents a pivotal moment in time of where we are now compared to where we were with the release date of early 2015 coming up..why not try it out? Who knows maybe it will change my future and I'll be able to transport myself with it one day!
Thanks for taking a look at my blog. I would love to hear your good, bad, and ugly feedback on what you think about the Apple Watch.
Articles I've looked at:
NY Times What the Apple Watch Says About Apple
Why the Apple Watch is a Gift to the Swiss Industry
Apple Watch Unveiled
Apple Company
Dick Tracy Photo
Apple Watch Image
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