Image credit: Apple There are several things you can do to prepare for your Apple Watch purchase online to ensure a better chance of success. That's especially true if you're competing with everyone else at 12:01 a.m. PDT on April 10th. I'll walk you through some recommended technical preparations to help make sure you get…
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How to 'Heart' Your Favorite Apple Watch in the Store App
In Apple's iOS Apple Store app, it says, “Pick your favorite models before pre-order…. Choose your favorites by clicking the heart icon next to those models.” That way, you can compare them and be ready for the pre-order process. Here's how to do it. _____________________ This is another bit of genius from Apple. By selecting…
How Apple Neglects Us. Let's Count the Ways
______________________ First, there is the Apple Thunderbolt Display, last updated in July 2011. This display is so obsolete and overpriced compared to the competition, I didn't even consider it when I was hunting for a new one. Apple should update it or discontinue it, but not let it linger. The most frequent Apple product that…
What the Apple Watch Purchase Experience Will be Like
____________________ What got me started on this was an article by Dave Smith at Business Insider. “The Biggest Concern With The Apple Watch Has Nothing To Do With The Actual Watch.” The issue was that this new purchase process was presented as an unknown, perhaps something that could trip Apple up. I really doubted that.…
Apple Continues to Plunder Fashion Industry with Another Burberry Hire
Chester Chipperfield's LinkedIn Profile. Mr. Chipperfield also offered his goodbyes to native London on Twitter, as noted by 9to5Mac: Goodbye London. I have been lucky to call you home for 31 years, time to discover another city.. http://t.co/CRxTDxckQB — Chester Chipperfield (@chesterchip) December 28, 2014 Apple also raided Burberry for Musa Tariq, head of Burberry's…
TAG Heuer Announces Plans for Mechanical Smartwatch
TAG has not yet announced specifics of its smartwatch or shown the device to reporters. This was a preemptive announcement ahead of the release of Apple Watch, not a product announcement. The company said it wouldn't ship a product until late 2015 at the earliest. To better understand this story, let's meet the players involved.…
Why Apple Really Has to Build its Own UHDTV
___________________ The first piece of evidence is the 5K iMac. In order to refresh 14.7 million pixels at 60 Hz, Apple needed to make its own timing controller, called the TCON with a bandwidth of 40 Gbps. It would make sense that Apple would think about that technology in any internal discussion of a next…
Insiders Claim Steel Apple Watch to Start at $500, Gold at $4,000
Apple's mid-range smartwatch will likely start at $500 Assuming the sources are correct, that pegs the anodized aluminum Apple Watch Sport as the lower-priced $349 model. The anonymous sources, speaking with the French site iGen (English translation), also said Apple will ship its smartwatch in time for Valentine's Day in February. While a February release…
Microsoft Joins the Fitness Tracking Game with Fitness Band
Microsoft Band wants some action in the fitness tracker market The Microsoft Band includes 10 sensors that track the usual data points found on other devices,including sleep tracking, but its built-in GPS, UV light sensor and galvanic shin response sensors set it apart. The UV sensor can alert wearers when they're getting too much sun…
Analyst: Get Ready for Round iWatch in 2 Sizes
Mr. Blair expects Apple to start production some time in July or August, and will build between 18 million and 21 million before the end of 2014, according to Business Insider. Apple hasn't done anything to confirm or deny that it is working on wearable tech gera for our wrists, although CEO Tim Cook has…
Biotech Industry Bracing for Apple's Brand of Disruption
In recent months, it has become evident that Apple's long-rumored “iWatch” product will have an intense focus on medical monitoring and fitness. 6-12 months ago Apple was hiring sensor experts and other engineers with sensor experience, but more recently the company has been bringing medical experts on board, including doctors. “There's no doubt that Apple…
Swatch Wound Up over Apple's iWatch Name, Files Formal Complaints
Swatch wants Apple to ditch iWatch name iWatch is the name Apple is expected to use for its still unconfirmed smartwatch device. The company has registered the name in several countries, although it hasn't officially said the device is coming or what it will be called. Simply registering the name was enough to get the…
Why Apple Didn't Try to Copy Google Glass
Google Glass had a nifty sci-fi feel to it when the product first came out. Along the way, however, Google apparently failed to fully appreciate both why the product should exist in the chosen form and the social aspects of the device. Calls for Apple to quickly follow Google's lead now look silly. ______________________ The…
Analyst: iWatch Sensor to Protect You from Sunburn
Analyst thinks iWatch will include a UV sensor In a note to investors, he said, Silicon Labs recently announced a family of products featuring the industry's first digital ultraviolet index sensors. These chips measure UV exposure to aid those with elevated risk of sunburn or just a general concern about excessive sun exposure, and we…
Basis Fitness Company May be Apple Buyout Target
Apple said to be considering Basis purchase Sources talking with TechCrunch said both Apple and Google are in talks with Basis and that the buying price would likely come in under US$100 million. They also said that Microsoft and Samsung are showing interest in Basis Science. Basis is known for the accuracy of its fitness…
An Apple Geek's Week with Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX
I have made it known that Apple's Retina iPad mini was the tablet I've always wanted, and I've been extremely pleased since I got mine. But I don't live in a vacuum, and I know that there are more than a few companies out there who want a piece of this very lucrative market. I bought Amazon's…
Just How Does Apple Make its OSes so Desirable?
______________________________ In the days of the PC wars, in the early 1990s, Apple struggled mightily against Windows with a superior OS. But then Microsoft made a giant leap forward with Windows NT in the early-mid 1990s, leaving the technically inferior Mac OS in the dust. To make a long story short, that we know well,…
It's Okay Mr. Cook. Apple Customers Can Also Dream
One of the things that fascinated me about Tim Cook's AllThingsD interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher was one of the questions after the interview. The question was posed by Dan Benton of Indoor Capital. The Q&A went roughly like this: Mr. Benton. Why won't you let us dream? The guys at Google are…
Tim Cook Disses Google Glass, Hints at iWatch
Wearable computing could be as big a branch of the technology tree as iPhones and iPads, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Speaking Tuesday night at this year's D conference, Mr. Cook said that he was “extremely interested” in wearables, but he dismissed “glasses”—i.e. Google Glass—as a niche product and said that other forms of…
Reading Apple's Tea Leaves from the GarageBand & Podcasts Updates
Apple did two things last week that have stuck in my mind: it radically redesigned its Podcasts app and added support for a third-party music routing system, called Audiobus, to GarageBand. I try not to get too optimistic when watching Apple’s moves, but I can’t help but wonder if these tea leaves speak of what’s…
The GM Corvette and the Apple Mac Pro Have Much in Common
Companies that claim they make the very best product of its kind but then waffle on selling low volume, premium, awe inspiring, likely very expensive high end products will implicitly lose credibility. That seems to be the discussion around the Mac Pro lately. Will Apple's next Mac Pro light the world on fire? Or just…
Fremont Abandons Effort to Enshrine 1984 Mac Factory
The City of Fremont has abandoned an effort to have the original, state-of-the-art factory that made the first Macs listed as a place of historic significance. The City Council wanted the building registered as such a place after the death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs in 2011, but found out that the building isn't old…
Onavo: Apple Maps Uses 80% Less Data than Old Google Maps
Apple Maps in iOS 6 uses significantly less data to do its job than the Google Maps-powered service it replaced, according to a report from data compression and analytics firm Onavo. The company did side-by-side tests of Apple Maps in iOS 6 and the previous Maps app in iOS 5.x, and found that Apple's new…
Apple Working on Wearable Computer Prototypes
According to the New York Times, Apple’s wearable computer concepts include devices that send data to an iPhone, and others display information on iPod screens. The company is also said to be toying with the idea of a wrist watch-style iPod that sports a curved glass surface and a Siri voice control interface.The idea of…