A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal

Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by guelo on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @09:40PM (#8300419)

Competition spurs innovation. Samsung copies from Apple whatever is successful there, Apple copies from Samsung/Google whatever is successful there. Would Apple have created a phablet if Samsung hadn't innovated and proved the market? Probably not. Samsung doesn't have the fingerprint reader, but it's probably coming. And then they'll have to think of something new to differentiate themselves.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by arm on Thursday September 11, 2014 @01:16AM (#8301005)

“Samsung copies from Apple whatever is successful there, Apple copies from Samsung/Google whatever is successful there.”

That doesn’t really sound like innovation.

EDIT: Never mind, I didn’t pick up on the actual gist of your comment, that being the copying done by each company forces the other to come up with new, possibly innovative ideas to one up the competition.

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by zimpenfish on Friday September 12, 2014 @07:36AM (#8307507)

Samsung didn't innovate the phablet, many people had released 5" devices before them. They have, however, sold many more than anyone previously ("proved the market").

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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by kayge on Friday September 12, 2014 @10:51PM (#8311502)

>> Samsung doesn't have the fingerprint reader FWIW, I think the latest Samsung devices (or at least the S5) have fingerprint readers.

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