What is the iWatch?
While Apple announces new products every year like clockwork, Apple CEO Tim Cook has promised products in entirely new categories this year. This promise has led to ongoing speculation, but most investors seem to agree that this new category will be fetching the wearable market, with a device will be a smartwatchcalled the iWatch.
What The Rumors Say
Broadly, rumors suggest the smartwatch will be available in two display sizes, 1.3-inch and 1.5-inch. One of the key selling points for the iWatch is likely to be its biometrics sensors, similar to the sensors in devices like the Fitbit.
Ecosystem Of Health Apps
Further, Apple allegedly plans to tap into its massive third-party developer relationships to build an ecosystem of health related apps that may help provide the backbone of user health data that will be stored in a new Apple-branded app the rumor mill is referring to as Healthbook.
When The iWatch Will Be Out
Ming-Chi Kuo is a well-connected longtime Apple analyst from KGI Securities, and he predicts that theiWatch will hit the market in the third calendar quarter of this year, right around the expected time for theiPhone 6 launch.
Future Plans
Apple, as always, remains mostly mute on its plans for future products. But Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the wearable market is definitely an area the company is interested in. Cook even called it a “very key branch of the tree” about a year ago at the All Things Digital D11 conference.
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