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MissingCylonModel
Actually, Microsoft made a smartwatch back in 2004. Nobody noticed.
http://www.smartwatchnews.org/2004-microsoft-spot-watch-smartwatch/
Except maybe for David Pogue who made fun of it in his "Simplicity sells" talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells/transcript?language=en
By the way, one of his issues with the SPOT watch was charging it every day. Like the upcoming Apple watch.
FishForest
Technologies that Microsoft did first, but Apple or Google did a better job selling:
The smartwatch Mapping service: TerraServer in 1998, MapPoint application 2000 Tablet, called Courier, never went live Commercial multi-touch screen, in a Surface tableJust wait for Apple to do a giant iPad table and claim "First!".
SenseNotSoCommon
Two decades after table-format arcade games bombed.
Here's a statement on Microsoft's "me-too!" complex from Family Guy:
<www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6u0PP7vro>
CGB Spender
Microsoft feels like a big, stagnant elderly for whom it is time to retire in the software world. They just don't have the innovation and reputation for cutting it. How many people do you know or see around that use Windows phone? Me: none.
sangetsu03
Microsoft... Aren't they working out of Elbonia now? Will I have to buy antivirus software to prevent my smart watch from being hacked, or infected?
smithinjapan
CGB: we are in agreement. This will fail before it's released.
lostrune2
Ya have to look at Europe:
http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-slow-steady-sales-europe-10-percent
To give ya an idea how 10% feels like, that's about Mac's share in computers.
sighclops
@FishForest
Where all others failed was... drum roll... SOFTWARE. iOS is based on the rock-solid OS X framework, not sh*tty Windows. The Courier was a great idea, but DOA.
@lostrune2
Ah yes, that old chestnut. The difference being, of course, WP's global market share is around the 2.5% mark. Apple has never been worried about marketshare in any of its markets. There are only two factors they care about:
How much their products get used (iOS is something like 80% of all mobile traffic) Profit margin (consistently 40%+ across the board. The same couldn't be said for the likes of HP & Dell (both at sub-9%).turbotsat
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
(only figures at/above 0.38% included)
http://www.netmarketshare.com/
nath
cough
Apple Newton.
lostrune2
That's why they introduced the concept of iPhone 5c - C for China.
And so does Exxon, and MS with Office. Doesn't help the rest of us.
FishForest
True dat. Although Newton was so early, I'd count it in the PDA category, with Palms and iPAQs (starting with a lowercase i, but not affiliated with Apple).
CoconutE3
Smart watches seem to have fizzled out before they even took off........why need smartwatch when you can do everything on smartphone?