Apple unveiled their catch up phones and watches. Given the complete lack of any new features, I demote the iWatch to iYawn.
You are no allowed to call the iWatch an iWatch. Apple want you to say Apple Watch. But there is nothing to watch. Just a Samsung Gear imitation with replaceable bands.
Everything at the announcement was a bore, just catching up with Samsung, Google, and many other brands.
The iWaste is described as sleek because it is not slim. After years of pushing slim, Apple had to choose between slim and massive profits. Profit won. The iWad is sleek, not slim.
Battery life is still hopeless, based on Apple's refusal to promise any useful battery life. Aw, shucks, Apple fails to deliver battery life again.
The iWeak is described as durable and one model is labelled a sports watch but there are no waterproof models, excluding the iWet from every sport I know. $30 watches are more durable than the $350 iWilt.
The display is still an old retina display, making it useless outdoors.
You can change the bands and the display theme, giving you the chance to wear the one watch with different outfits. The Apple watch bands will probably cost more than a competitor's whole watch.
The watch works only with an iPhone. Would you give up your smartphone to go back to an iPhone just so you can use the iW that has no advantages of competing watches.
There is no sign of the iWatch reading O2 levels which means you will throw away your iwatch to buy something modern.
The iwatch is a real fizzer compared to the Samsung watch. The Samsung is already in a second generation, giving you a bigger range of choices.
The iwatch is a failure as a sports watch. The iwatch is a failure as a thin watch. There is nothing about the iwatch to put it ahead of the watch market.
Reports from the hands on trials of the iwatch at the release event are similar, the reviewers were allowed to put the watch on their wrist bit were not allowed to use it. All they experienced was a fake demo almost exactly the same as the video played during the on stage sales pitch.
The replaceable band is the one interesting thing. Watches have had replaceable bands forever. Some watches had easy to replace bands while most had bands you could replace with pliers or tweezers. Apple made their bands different so they can charge big licensing fees for the bands. What is really needed is an open source band connection so anyone can make replacement bands without paying a pirate ransom to Apple.
I designed a free open replacement band system many years ago, long before open hardware designs became fashionable and produced a number of variations over the years. If anyone wants to crack open the band market, speak up.
The rest of the Apple announcements were the usual trivia of recent years. Copy, copy, copy.
The iPhone 6 catches up to the Samsung Galaxy 5 in screen size but not in resolution, the 6 is still stuck with an ancient Retina display. The iPhone 6 Plus attempts to catch up to the Samsung Galaxy 5 Note Edge and fails.
Apple originally rejected NFC as wrong because Apple did not think of it first. Now, with falling share prices, they desperately copied everyone else and added NFC. Their first use is to attempt to catch up with eBay (Paypal), Google, Microsoft, and Samsung in the electronic payment market. eBay shares dropped a little bit because Apple might take some business away from Paypal but Apple shares did not go up because the Apple products did not live up to the imagination of the speculators.
Apple could have used this update to leap ahead of Samsung by including some of the best new features from Nokia, Sony, etc. No, they refuse to spend enough money of research or development or simply buying good ideas from everyone else.
Perhaps the iPhone 7 will include innovation.