My Thoughts on Technology and Jamaica: Apple iWatch and Apple iRadio coming in the Second Quarter of 2013 - Battery life innovations needed to power the Evil Dead for Apple iCloud Streaming

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Apple iWatch and Apple iRadio coming in the Second Quarter of 2013 - Battery life innovations needed to power the Evil Dead for Apple iCloud Streaming



Apple appears to be working on a pair of very similar devices that ironically are related: an Apple iWatch and an Apple iPod and Apple iPod Touch with Apple iCloud Streaming aka the Apple iRadio.

How are they related? Both of these new products are really going to be device refreshes of products that Apple already made and already have brand appeal.

The Apple iWatch, of which I’d dreamed about nearly two (2) years ago in a Geezam blog article entitled “Prediction: The iPod Nano Watch – Time has a New Standard” appears to be quite real.

They apparently have a dedicated 100-man Engineering Team working round the clock to bring the Apple iWatch to market by the Second Quarter of 2013 as noted in iWatch ‘beyond the experimentation phase’ – team of 100 working on Apple device”, report says, published February 13, 2013 By Trevor Mogg, DigitalTrends and Apple reportedly has 100-person team working on 'iWatch'”, published February 12, 2013 6:15 PM PST by Steven Musil, CNET News.

There’s certainly a market for such a product. Smartwatches thus far have been poor on Battery life and style. The makers resort to usually large watches making you look more Geek than sheek. Great for hanging with you Techie friends, but not for Black Tie Social Gatherings.

Thus it’s the main reason why I love Smartwatches or Wristwatches with Retro stylings that are candy to a girl’s eye as opined in my Geezam blog article entitled “Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch – Fob Watch for Tron Steampunk Geek Gentlemen and “Apple iPod Nano vs Phosphor Reveal – Bling Bling, Playa.

We know the advantage of a Smartwatch already; an extension of your smartphone or Tablet, making it unnecessary to back out your tech toy in the middle of dinner every time you receive an Update, Tweet, picture or Text. It makes you look more professional too.

The current crop of Smartwatches are just big screens with poor battery life, the main reason cited by detractors of Apple doing an iWatch as noted in “Why iWon’t buy Apple’s rumored Smartwatch, published February 12, 2013 by Simon Hill, DigitalTrends.

So with the lack of style and poor battery life, the MAIN problems Apple has to conquer in order to make the Apple iWatch a hit as noted in For an iWatch to kick butt, Apple must innovate in batteries, published February 19, 2013 4:00 AM PST by Josh Lowensohn and Shara Tibken, CNET News, it’s no surprise Apple doing an iWatch.

Like the Apple iPod Nano upon which it may be based, it’s has higher profit margins, as you can design it and have it manufactured and mass produced cheaply in a FoxConn factory and sold for a premium price.

Ditto to the Apple Music Streaming aka the Apple iRadio, long rumounred to be coming to stream content from Apple’s iCloud Service which has also never been a definite certainty as noted in “Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty”, published October 25, 2012 1:28 PM PDT by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.

This too I’ve also dreamt up and mentioned on my blog in a blog article entitled “Apple iPhone 4S is a hit and the Apple iPod may get an upgrade - Steve Jobs Opus Major”. Apple iRadio is an upgrade of the Apple iPod as well as the Apple iPod Touch with streaming from Apple iCloud, true streaming, not synching scan-and-match of Media Content.

This upgrade is really a software and new hardware upgrades to power a Music and possibly Video Streaming Service:

1.      Built in dedicated Wi-Fi or 3G/4G LTE
2.      Increased Memory Cache
3.      Improved Battery life
4.      Bluetooth Streaming headsets or earbuds, most likely made by Apple as predicted in my Geezam blog article entitledApple patents Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds as Wireless Bluetooth Speakers take Flight
5.      Music Streaming Content provided by Beats Audio, with whom Apple’s reportedly engaged in Talks as reported in “Cook reportedly discussed music streaming service with Beats”, published March 5, 2013 9:39 PM PST by Steven Musil, CNET News

My hopes hinge on discoveries of the presence of Radio buttons in the Apple iOS 6.1 upgrade as suggested in the article “Hidden 'radio' buttons discovered in Apple's iOS 6.1”, published February 5, 2013 8:51 AM PST by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.

So we may be looking at an Apple iRadio and a new Apple iPod and Apple iPod Touch with Apple iCloud Streaming aka the Apple iRadio later this Second Quarter of 2013 due to ongoing negotiations with the Music Industry as noted in “Apple's iRadio service said to be delayed into summer, or longer”, published March 7, 2013 11:50 AM PST by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.

Ditto too the same wait time for the Apple iWatch as Apple seeks to upgrade its Apple iPod line with better Battery Life to power the Evil Dead (2013) with Apple iCloud Streaming. As for the actual Apple Shuffle and Apple Nano, they too may get the stylings of Bluetooth Streaming and Bluetooth Streaming headsets as predicted in my Geezam blog article entitledApple patents Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds as Wireless Bluetooth Speakers take Flight”.

Apple’s preparing to debut “One More thing” to continue its long love Affair with Time and Music. But what of the Apple Mac Mini, Apple MacBook and the Apple Television set with Streaming for the Apple iTV? More on that from my blog and the Geezam Blog as I take a bite out of the Apple.

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