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Apple Watch arrived on customer wrists 10 years ago

Apple received so many Apple Watch right in the early 2015

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but he was also bought. Today, according to statistics collected by Business of Apps, until the end of 2024, Apple sold more than 300 million hours of Apple.

, which should be an approximation, since Apple does not release numbers, but then Samsung. However, based on similar approaches to Sammobile, it is assumed that Samsung sold more than 100 million smart watches.

This is a huge number, but this is just a third of Apple sales. And Samsung began to sell his smart clock two years before Apple.

Development of Apple Watch

Now the former designer of Apple Johni Ive said that the discussion about Apple Watch did not It began until the beginning of 2012, and, in particular, after the death of Steve Jobs a year earlier. The New York Times wants to differ, however, as said in December 2011, that Apple is working on the last year.

“Человек с знаниями о планах компании сказал мне, что« очень небольшая группа сотрудников Apple концептуализировала и даже прототипировала некоторые носимые устройства »,-написал он. «Одна идея, которая обсуждается,-это iPod из изогнутого стекла, который обертится вокруг запястья; люди могли бы общаться с устройством, используя Siri, The company's software for the company's artificial intelligence. ” computer, ”he continued.In the disagreement between IVE and The New York Times compared to your own work, you must side with the designer. Except that there was an Apple patent application, which mentioned the “Asseline on the wrist” and mdash; And this statement was in December 2007.

Patents are always trying to cover the largest use of the technology that they describe, it is better to help with any future legal cases. But even if it were only a fleeting thought in 2007, it was still a passing thought about Apple Watch.

was not only a thought for someone in Apple, that were the participants of the AppleinSider forum, who asked about the watch. They asked about this even earlier, in 2005 and for one clear reason.

at that moment Apple launched the iPod Nano, and it was so small that it could be worn like a clock. And people did this, people turned their iPod Nano devices during hours.

This is a long way from the iPod, which plays music to a device that actually saves life. But the demand was there, and the idea was there.

hints continued to come

that the 2007 patent could or could not be serious, by 2013 there was no doubt. Although this could still not go further & mdash; Look at the Apple Car and how this project was canceled by MDash; Apple studied the clock very seriously.

Forget when trying to cover all the bases, another patent was for a “two-stable spring with a flexible display”, and its illustrative diagrams include devices that are worn on the wrist. Apple called this a bracelet, so perhaps it was not sure of getting everything in the device the size of a watch, but he tried.

“By entering a user with a touch screen, the user can perform a number of different tasks, including setting up the procedure for the current playback list and view the list of recent phone calls,” the patent said. “The response to the current text message can even be controlled taking into account the simple configuration of the virtual keyboard on the surface of the flexible display.”

in retrospective we can see how serious Apple was, and not only because we now have an Apple watch. In the same 2013, the former Adobe Technology Director Kevin Lynch joined Apple as a & mdash; Something.

He did not even know. Seriously.

Lynch was hired before he was told what he would work on. And if this is a sign of secrecy, this is a sign of a state of progress on Apple Watch at that time & mdash; Lynch was supposed to miss the usual Apple induction program.

instead he went directly to the Apple Watch Studio. He did not work on his own, and he did not work with empty shales, but he also did not work with which -liba functioning Apple Watches. Or functioning observation.

Lynch joined Apple in March 2013. Then in September 2014, Tim Cook officially announced Apple Watch.

The ad and launch of Apple Watch

This can open the device and say “available today”. This is partly because of the scale in which he should work now, and partly because many of his devices should go through the FCC approval process.

instead of waiting for any possible leaks from this process, Apple first goes into the center of attention. And on September 9, 2014, Apple introduced the iPhone 6.