Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch 196
New submitter evansspann sends word that Samsung will be making a smartwatch. Rumors have been swirling for a few months that Apple is working on a 'watch-like' device, but Samsung's CEO was willing to confirm that his company is working on such a product. "We've been preparing the watch product for so long. We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them." The companies are now likely racing to be the first to market. Production of such a device will likely be easier for Samsung, since it can produce its own screens and chips. It's also likely to work well with the popular Galaxy Phone lines. However, it will have a tougher time with app distribution than Apple, since it doesn't control Google Play the way Apple controls the App Store. "Apple's critics like to say the company's ideas are obvious, but as some pundits have noted, those very ideas once seemed unimaginable. The smartwatch will be a great test for that theory. It'll be interesting to see if Samsung can strike first in a nascent category and still rival Apple's work."
Another easy to misread title (Score:5, Funny)
I have a feeling this is going to be downvoted because it happens to be the first post and people will think I'm just posting for that reason, but I totally misread this title as "Samsung also making a sandwich". Maybe someone sexist jerk told them to get in the kitchen, and they took it to heart?
Re:Another easy to misread title (Score:5, Funny)
Apple misdirection? (Score:5, Funny)
This makes me suspect that Apple deliberately started rumors that they were working on a "smartwatch" simply to trick other companies into wasting effort into actually developing such a useless product.
Stefan Jobes (Score:4, Funny)
if you look carefully, you can see the Samsung founder Stefan Jobes wearing a smartwatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YciM_54HzZk [youtube.com]
Re:James Bond (Score:5, Funny)
James Bond is a poser. I've wanted one since Dick Tracy [blogspot.com].
Now get off my lawn, kid!
Re:battery? Phone talking? (Score:5, Funny)
An iWatch would be a fashion accessory just like iPods and IPhones are fashion accessories, an iPad is just a digital purse.
(and Andriod tablets are digital cargo pants, while Surface tablets are digital fannypacks.)
It will be an unpopular product (Score:4, Funny)
As a wise man once said ...
Charlie: Okay, the reason why men say hot girl at, like, 12 o'clock or 3 o'clock, is to specify a location using the clock face as a kind of a map.
Jake: What if you have a digital watch?
Charlie: First of all, you're not gonna meet any women if you wear a digital watch. Second of all, it doesn't matter; the clock face is imaginary.
Jake: Then how do you know what time you saw the girl?
Charlie: Oh, my God!