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[–] Ahabandthewhitegrail 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I need to squat on the name iGlasses. I want my millions of unearned dollars, too.

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[–] ledfrog 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I use AdSense on my own site, but I've never bought any ads through their AdWords program. Reading this article made me wonder exactly how Google handles such a case. If Apple can buy an ad for any term they wish, then what would stop a malicious company from using lots of money to effectively "steal" traffic from any trademarked term they wish?

According to their own rules page, "Google will not investigate or restrict the use of trademark terms in keywords, even if a trademark complaint is received." From the looks of it, the company that owns "iWatch" won't win this case.

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[–] liver_stream 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

Apple are truly morons for releasing the iwatch. Friend had a phone watch about 7 years ago. Got it from Chinese wholesalers website. The idea was a gimmick it was never usable, and why would you trade a 6" screen for a 2" screen? and much more cumbersome usage. I'd rather spend the money on an analog watch with mechanical movement (slightly biased)

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[–] neillium 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

While the market is really trendy, I don't think that smartwatches themselves will ever be a thriving market like the cellphone arms race is. They have some really neat features that make using them a blast to use as well as customization for super-sweet watch faces and nice baked-in health apps. However, for the average person, a smartwatch just isn't super practical and that's who I think they tend to be aiming their advertisements at.

The price point (for the Apple Watch) is a bit too high and goes up pretty quickly. A Moto 360 is about $150, making it far more likely to be used as a daily device by more people. I think that a "budget" Apple Watch would sell like hotcakes.

I know I could be completly, wrong about this, but I think smartwatches will be a very niche market, but a very cool one at that!

For me, I just use my FitBit for a healthtracker and my phone for time and everything else related to a phone.

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[–] liver_stream ago 

I believe the wholesalers had them as little as $80 with an Android cell phone in them, so they didn't need a another phone to run off of. They sound great, but again the screen size makes them close to useless. They would be cool if they were only mobile/cell phones and everyone had then unfortunately the telcos got too greedy. Why give you 3 Mb's of data for a video call when at say the current call rates of a $1-$2 when they can charge you 20cent per 140kb (this depends on the country of course, but I would take on the bet that most telco's are overly greedy.

If the watch didn't need a second device and was the size of a current phone but maybe slightly curved then I think they might have something there. (Think Leela from Futurama )