Apple Watch
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Apple Event 2018: How To Watch The New iPhone, Apple Watch & Mac Launch
Here’s what to expect from Apple’s latest unveiling
Keeping Current
Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watch to Steal Signs Against Yankees
This isn’t the first time Apple has caused issues in the dugout. “Washington — For decades, spying on another team has been as much...
Products
Apple Drops The iPad Air For A Newer, Cheaper iPad
Eschewing its traditional spring event—at least for now—Apple announced a new 9.7-inch iPad this morning that will replace the iPad Air. The company also...
Products
Apple Watch Returns Global Smart-Watch Shipments to 1% Growth In Q4 2016: Strategy Analytics
Global smart-watch shipments reversed their recent downward trend and grew 1 percent annually to hit a record 8.2 million units in the fourth quarter...
Products
Apple Drops Headphone Jack For iPhone 7; Debuts Apple Watch Series 2
Apple had several big product introductions on Wednesday, uveiling the second generation of its Apple Watch and the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus....
Products
X-Doria Enters Apple Watch Accessories Market
X-Doria is now offering a metal Apple Watch replacement band. The Mesh Band is a stainless steel, adjustable band with a fully magnetic strap...
Products
Siri, OSs Get Apple’s Attention At WWDC
Apple is refreshing the operating systems of all of its hardware platforms, bringing its Siri voice assistant to Macs, and — following in the...
Products
Zepp Offers Golf App For Apple Watch
Zepp Labs announced today its Zepp 2 Golf swing analyzer and training tool is now compatible with the Apple Watch. Wearers receive streamlined access...
Industry
Apple, The $532 Billion Failure
The Apple Watch turned a year old on Sunday and like most one-year-olds, it’s hard to predict how successful it will be in the...
Industry
Apple Q1 Sees Record Revenue, Profit
Updated! Apple reported its largest quarter by revenue ever today, with a Q1 total of $75.9 billion for a net profit of $18.4 billion....
Keeping Current
Apple Now Sells Official Apple Watch Dock
The $79 dock features a built-in “charging puck” that receives power via a Lightning cable. With a battery life of about a day, convenience...
Products
iPad Pro, Mini 4: What To Expect From Apple’s Launch Event
A big-screen iPad “Pro” and a new Apple TV promoted as a game console could overshadow the incremental iPhone improvements expected to be revealed...
Inbox
Is The Apple Watch The New Steroids? (MLB, Ned Yost Don’t Think So)
Major League Baseball last month gifted Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost with an Apple Watch as a thank you for coaching this year’s...
Products
Best Buy To Carry Apple Watch
Minneapolis – Best Buy will be the first national retailer, besides Apple itself, to carry the manufacturer’s line of smart watches. The No. 1...
Industry
iPhones Soared & iPads Slumped In Apple’s Latest Earnings
Cupertino, Calif. — Apple’s third-quarter sales grew 33 percent worldwide to $49.6 billion, with nine-month revenues up 29.5 percent to $182.2 billion. Net income...
Products
Canalys: Apple Tops In Wearable Bands In Q2
Palo Alto, Calif. – Apple hasn’t been in the smart watch business for very long, but it already became the world’s top vendor of...
Products
Apple Clearing Up Watch Backlog
Cupertino, Calif. – Apple has begun tackling its backlog of Apple Watch orders, announcing that consumer orders placed through May for all models but...
Products
IHS: Apple Watch To Drive Smart Watch Success
London – Global smart watch shipments will grow 2,700 percent from a mere 3.6 million shipments in 2014 to 101 million in 2020, driven...
Products
Apple Details Watch Accessory Guidelines
Cupertino, Calif. — The Apple Watch is ready for its accessories. Apple has released the official guidelines for Apple Watch bands on its website....
Executive Insight
The Apple Watch Offers Retailers Another Path to Customers
The Apple Watch recently started shipping to consumers who placed online orders with the tech giant. According to early estimates, almost a million people...
Products
Apple Watch Plays Hard-To-Get
Cupertino, Calif. – Apple was set today to begin shipping the first Apple smart watches that consumers began preordering on April 10, but the...
Products
Insteon Adds Home Control From Apple Watch
Irvine, Calif. – Consumers will be able to control Insteon home-automation systems from an Apple Watch available in the iTunes Store, the company announced....
Research
Apple Sells Estimated 1M Smart Watches: Research
Palo Alto, Calif. — Nearly 1 million people pre-ordered the Apple Watch on the first day it became available, according to research firm Slice...
Retailing
Apple Watch Retail Strategy Won’t Fly For Long: CIRP
Cupertino, Calif. — Apple’s distribution strategy for the Apple Watch is going to slow it down right out of the gate, according to research...
Blogs
Apple Watch Features The Media Missed
The humorists at The Onion provided the following list of notable Apple Watch features that were overlooked in the launch hoopla: * 3-megapixel camera enables users to take...
News
Apple Sets Watch Prices, Ship Dates
San Francisco – Apple’s first smart watch will be available April 24 in the U.S. at prices ranging from $349 to more than $10,000...
Products
Some Recent Smart Watches That Will Take On The Apple Watch
Barcelona — The smart watch market grew more crowded at the recent Mobile World Congress, where many of the new wearables were launched by...
Executive Insight
Futuresource: Traditional Watches and Smartphones on a Collision Course
At both CES and MWC this year there was a clear design drive to make smartwatches look more like analogue watches in an effort...
Products
What Would Steve Jobs Think Of The Apple Watch?
New York — Apple began its work on the Apple Watch after founder/CEO Steve Jobs died, but over the past year several current and...
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History Of The Smart Watch
The smart watch is a concept that harkens back to the era when pagers were a top-selling mass-market consumer electronics product. Here’s a look...
Products
Analysts See Apple Watch Gaining Top Share Despite Premium Price
New York — Analysts are already saying the Apple Watch will top the market-share charts in 2015 despite less-than-a-day battery life and premium pricing....
Products
Apple Watch: 15 Things We Knew In Advance
Functionality: Apple Watch connects via Bluetooth 4.0 to iPhones running iOS 8, starting with the iPhone 5, to send and receive messages; answer calls...
Executive Insight
The Pebble In Apple’s Shoes
Well, it’s another bright, beautiful March here in Silicon Valley, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to get all excited about another...