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Apple Watch Stopped? TAG Heuer Unveils Smartwatch Partnership With Google
On the day that Apple joins the Dow (and juices its volatility), it is a good job analysts have something else to focus on (the TV un-bundling plan) because Apple Watch just found a new 'old' competitor to deal with. As Bloomberg reports, Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. While TAG is the first traditional watchmaker to pair with Google, the partnership could open the door to other collaborations with high-end brands owned by LVMH, including Hublot and Zenith. Would you rather - $10,000 iWatch, $10,000 TAG?
Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers, particularly the much-hyped watch by Apple. While TAG is the first traditional watchmaker to pair with Google, the partnership could open the door to other collaborations with high-end brands owned by LVMH, including Hublot and Zenith. One of the questions raised by Apple's $10,000 gold smartwatch is whether users will consider it a luxury item, and wear it for status as well as convenience.
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The number of Swiss watch brands adding electronic features has blossomed since Apple joined the battle for customers' wrists. Swatch, Breitling, Montblanc, and Frederique Constant are among those that have entered the fray, with products ranging from a messaging device that clips to a watch strap to a gold-plated watch containing a fitness tracker. TAG Heuer’s smartwatch won’t be made in Switzerland, with the company relying on partners in Silicon Valley and the usual international electronics supply chain instead.
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If all these companies can come up with, with all their highfalutin engineers and marketing folks, this has to be a top in technology.
A smart watch is a really small smart phone. This is stupid.
Regards,
Cooter
Most smart watches are not smart phones. They need a smart phone to even work like the Android watches. That said, they aren't quite stupid as they do provide one good service: when some calls I don't have to take my phone out to ignore the call
I'm proud to announce that my Rochefocauld, [which is water resistant to 3 atmospheres], has partnered with AOL...
My 'sport watch', the Dick Tracy watch I got for trading in Bazooka Joe wrappers, has partnered with 'Ask Jeeves'
"Would you rather - $10,000 iWatch, $10,000 TAG?"
Thanks, but I'll take 'Door Number Three,' Monty...
Carol Marol ~ lol
the original stories about this stated that Apple was going to buy over 700 Tonnes of gold for this bullshit watch deal.
My feelings right away about this was that it was more about Apple procurring 700 tonnes of physical gold and not really about some shitty little watch.
Sure, they may produce a bunch of watches and a bunch of schmuck sheep-tards will buy them. But there's no fucking way they're going to use over 700 Tonnes of gold for these watches. Bullshit.
I think Apple's just using it as an excuse to stack a lot of phyzz gold.
I'm sure they can probably get that much phyzz gold easier than Germany or any other country can.
They're probably stacking it for their own high level employees and they probabaly have their own kick ass vault somewhere too.
They know they can't have so much cash just sitting around and using it to stack a bunch of gold is the best thing to do to hedge against the collapse that's coming.
+Au
Was it ever established as a fact that Apple bought 700 tons of gold? Or was it a rumor? Just asking, not agitating.
Bringing a watch to market in this day and age makes about as much sense as starting a newspaper or opening a chain of video stores.
TAG is like the Hyundai of luxury watches. I'll take a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms over an Apple or a TAG.
I bought a TAG in 1978 as a graduation present to myself and it still keeps very accurate time so I see no need to replace it...ever...
I have an old Tag and love it. Great style and solid quality.
Received one as a gift over 20 years ago. Scares me to think of all the things it's been thru - on my wrist. Fucking tank of a watch. I think it will outlive me.
iwatch or 8 ounces of gold...man this is gonna be a tough decision...
To my knowledge, the only true smartwatch that has its own built-in cell-phone is the Samsung Gear S, and it kicks Apple's a**, both in appearance and in functionality:
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/gears/
look around...how many people wear a fucking watch anymore? watch me not wear a watch or buy a driverless car who are these retards?
they are the excessively monied
Crisco, wristwatch. There you have it ladies and gentlemen.
We have all this freshly printed money that we know will ultimately be worthless so we need to spend it fast and furiously. A $10k watch fills the bill and you don't have to pay insurance and upkeep like the Maserati.
I must confess I have a nice TAG and have only worn it ten times in five years. When you get old you don't care about that kind of shit as much. Mostly it's for the wife so I can have a little sparkle on an old dog when she has to take me out in public. At least it ain't a rhinestone collar.
No shit
I had a Rolex GMT II Master that kept terrible time, cracked the face once, broke the winder twice, cost $500 bucks to open up & clean, got stolen twice...
The 2nd time it didn't come back to me... I DON'T MISS IT...
They don't call it JEWelery for nothing.
I have a very nice Movado that I bought about 20 years ago. It keeps excellent time and only needs a new battery about every 4-5 years.
When the current battery dies, I will no longer wear a watch (smart or otherwise)...
I took a TAG for a trade once. The watch is very nice and will be kept in the family for as long as possible. My son will receive it one day. It's a timeless classic masterpiece and it won't break down.
Movado has some great styles.
You're thinking too narrowly. Driverless vehicles cannot be sold as personal vehicles... yet. That would be a failed sales approach, the public's attitude just is not there and the money therefore is not there. They will first be adopted by municipalities and logistics companies to replace long-haul truckers in an attempt at MOAR productivity growth. That will be a sea change that happens over the course of 2 or 3 years. That will change the attitude of the public and then open the doors to driverless vehicles as a personal vehicle. In 5 years, then yes driverless vehicles will start to become mainstream in the new personal vehicle market.
Don't forget taxis too.
I say, too complicated. Accidents waiting to happen, easy to steal, etc.
Exactly.
Who programs the software and makes the decision as to which animals it 'swerves' for? ("Ok, swerve for medium to large sized dogs, but cats, chipmunks, and chihuhuas are road-kill.")
Who takes financial responsibility when a driverless car runs over a pedestrian in a crosswalk, or plunges over a cliff with all its occupants busy playing video games on their tablets?
How on earth does a driverless car manage the 'cut & thrust' tactics necessary in busy downtown traffic? If they program them to drive 'slowly and conservatively' to avoid accidents, how much more of a nightmare will that make rush-hour traffic for everyone else?
Robots are good at doing repetitive things quickly and efficiently, but there are some tasks where robots simply can't complete with humans.
Can you ever imagine a robot playing World Cup futbol or quarterbacking for an NFL team?
Good luck with that...
You're kidding right?
Good advice -- look around. A young generation of teens and adults love watches. Took me by surprise, but do take a look. Watches are cool. My kids are athletic but so are many people. A watch is easy quick access to a stopwatch, time of day without pulling out the phone, and just another gadget. Smart watch is a good idea.
Question is how long before Koreans copy it. The biggest joke is how Apple is copied by Asians, who never invent themselves. This is the order of things I guess. Yesterday I was at a trade show featuring NEW products (exhibiting a new product my company pioneered by the way). Guess what there were no Asians not a one. This in a city where everyone marvels at how great Asians are. Every new product coming from European heritage folks and quite a lot of them Canadian. Fascinating world we live in.
Ok come on, which watch company do you work for? Also please look up 'invention' and perhaps lookup the first tablet or mp3 player, Hint they were not apple products.
Take a sample of kids at your local high school and college and note how many wear a watch. Take the advice. Look Around! I do not work for a watch company, and it took me by surprise. But my kids wear a watch. So do their friends. Get used to it.
I don't need to spend $100 of dollars for an overly complex stop watch or calendar when an old fashioned digital quartz watch with a rotating bezel still works just as well. As long as graduations are properly calibrated to the quartz pulse. That is where the modern meets the new, i.e. the means to measure the watch hand's movements with great precision using digital optical means then replicating the bezels and face plates individually to each watch.
Sorry to burst your bubble; but not only AAPL Products are built by Asians nowadays - they're co-designed by them as well. IIRC, Foxconn is a TWNese Firm operating in CHN on behalf of AAPL.
P.S. You obviously don't get our much. Take a look at the Patent Listings, Inventions Claims. etc. Though I concur with your observations on the SouthKORea and TWN, JPN currently leads the Region on Inventions, etc.
IIRC, Nova Scotia still pumps sewage directly to the sea, so the residents still "shit where they eat", correct?
Take a quick visit to Tokyo, where the Ubiquitous Tech in Public Transportation alone (in spite of several gaps for the luddites) puts everyone else behind in years.
When Apple designed the ipod and itunes they provided an excellent "solution" to problem. To some extent, there was a "need". The ipod was not the first solution offered, but as a package, it beat all the competitors. The iphone similarly did enough things better that it provided a solution to a problem, plus it was/is trendy. The iwatch looks more like a solution looking for a problem, trying to find a need that is not there. I'm sure they sell a few, but it will be interesting to see how many.
The "need" being that of constant entertainment and distraction.
What the fuck did people do a hundred years ago?
Oh, that's right, they were struggling to stay alive!
But STEM folks are the only people on the planet who are worth a fuck and the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to share their air, water and food as we genuflect before the almighty app coders and timepiece engineers singlehandedly crafting a better society.....
Reminds me of the Zoolander cell phones.
Stupid yes, but the consumers of this idiocracy will probably send APPL to $100,000 a share.
Dumb watches are a smart idea.
How do you operate a smartwatch when mobile phones are already a pain in the ass?
They can't get the plebs to take a chip but they'll wear a personal tracking wristband.
The google watch will have a built in taser so the NSA can zap you if you say or do anything wrong.
They actually make things? I thought Apple only sold bonds and shares. i gotta start reading Business Week!
Since I don't have any pressing need to pose - NEITHER.
I'll take a Seiko for $25, Alex.
How do you tell time when you're on horseback on the way to the leathersmith to get your boots repaired?
horse apples!
The length and angle of your shadow?
Regards,
Cooter
There's still some leathersmiths in San Fran and Greenwich Village , maybe somebody should look them up.
"NEITHER" is correct. [yawn]
I'm holding out for the model that accepts "One to beam up".
LOL, a $10,000 watch you have to charge all the time.
Another expensive item to get thrown in the drawer eventually, with all the rest of the useless crap.
The Apple iPhone 6 was popular because it was larger.
Yep, their loyal base had a couple years of stored up screen envy.
"What are you doing with your watch, Smegley?"
"Reading ZeroHedge articles, 4 words at a time."
But I digress. The great thing that they touted with the iWatch is that you can check you heartrate, and send it to a friend. Seriously heard that like 12 times on the radio driving in, and I wondered why anyone would give a fuck.
Electronic junk on the wrist.
You know times are lean when they have to copy some one's bad idea...
You mean it doesn't measure the weight of taking a dump to share with virtual friends too!?
Oh no.. I just gave Apple the idea for the iToilet!
I shit you not!
Congratulations on you’re purchase of an Apple Watch, the only watch that watches and monitors you as much as you watch it.
By the way, after selling the physical information we gathered on you to one of our other customers, they have asked us to advise you that your health insurance is now cancelled.
Have a nice day.
Wait til insurance company actuaries can dive into "reward program" data from grocery store chains at an individual level.
This is probably the only reason they are pushing the damn thing so hard. I really don't get it.
Maybe I should find a nice pocket watch to buy in protest.
Regards,
Cooter
Hey, I've already got the suppository model from "Progressive".
"Help! I have fallen and I can't get up! By the way, how is my heart rate?"
Regards,
Cooter
Business Week headline Circa 2016: Apple to unveil "data sharing" agreement with Met Life, the largest life insurance company on earth.
FUCK YOU FANBOYZ!
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/03/19/0415215/apple-may-start-accepti...
Rolex watches are next
Hah, Apple stores are going to run like car dealerships at the rate things are going.
Regards,
Cooter
Fuck time.
No - time fucks you.
It has caused the deaths of billions. We really should be spending more resources on stopping time.
Time is clearly a terrizz. We need a War against TIme, bitchez!
I've got enough baubles, trinkets and gee-haws on my iPhone. Do I really need more of this crap?
II wear a simple analog Seiko. When it goes, I'd like to replace it with a Submariner w/o the date.
I don't wear a watch to tell time, why the heck would I want spam mail on my watch....Are the sheeple going to watch Jenner get his sex change live on their foolish watch? Though I would be interested in having an NSA device to make sure they know where I am...so I don't get droned at my next wedding celebration.
But...it tells you your heartrate while you're sleeping...unless the battery dies that is...so you can't really wear it while you're sleeping...but it could.
This makes so much fucking sense. Google is about to launch a modular cell phone, which means that you don't need to change your phone every other year or two. Why wouldn't a luxury modular intelligent watch work? What the fuck will happen when Apple unveils the iWatch 2, 3, etc.? Will people throw away the gold?
That said, smartwatches are very stupid.
"TAG Heuer’s smartwatch won’t be made in Switzerland, with the company relying on partners in Silicon Valley and the usual international electronics supply chain instead."
Would that be the jumping-out-of-windows supply chain, located in...?
I thought I was able to forget about the watch once I had a phone.
Let me guess, you’re only going to be able to read this new Tag Watch when you’re wearing a Google Glass. If you wink three times, you get access to porn cites.
In other news, in response to AAPL’s announcement that it will be developing electric cars, Tesla has retaliated with plans for a 400 hp SmartWatch that will go 0-60 in 3.48 seconds.
3 hour battery life.
LOL.......................................
no it is an apple product that is the upgrade cycle!
Tattoo your forehead with the Apple logo.
Increase your value as a human being.
Are watches not antiquated concepts, if not obsolete and for nothing other than glamour. Phones, cars, any room has a time keeper. Pimp rings however, always needed.
$10,000 iWatch, $10,000 TAG?
I'll take my 10 g's in sex and drugs and rock 'n roll thank you, and ask somebody near me what time it is.
Hey Tyler,
Where's AAPL's earnings confessional? Where are the other earnings confessionals?
The USD is strong like bull and should crush earnings and guidance.
1. Does anyone know what time it is? Does anyone really care about time?
2. What watch, darling? Ten watch. Such much?
Name the source of these lines.
1. Chicago (The musical band - not little Israel - Thanks for that Rham!)
2. Don't know - too lazy to google it.
Which reminds me.. Dunkin Donuts have the sip and score game going on right now. You peel the little sticker off of your coffee cup, answer a stupid trivia question and win a free donut or turbo shot. It makes no sense to have that sort of game in existence now that Google exists. Does it? I mean, I didn't know what Scary Spice's real name was so instead of guessing and risking a turbo shot, I just googled it. 100% win rate on that game. just venting, sorry.
Apple should have called it an iWatchBand or something in that line to remind that it is not a watch but a health service system.
When you are dying in an accident that non-watch can page for help and provide all health data to Obamacare health service providers.
It also reads your pulse to tell you if you are dead.
Just kidding, I love apple products.
It does make sense having it call for medical help, because your chances of dying in a car accident, while playing with your stupid fucking watch, increase 9000%
No love of iCrapple here but TH is one of the most over-rated timepieces and I own a luxury Swiss watch but not a TH, although I owned one back in the day, worst ever.
It is high time that the authors run a spell check before they hit, "send."
What will happen to Swiss watches that lose or gain 30 seconds a week, have to be wind up every day, are made by watch-makers who earn 50 euro per hour and drive an expensive Mercedes, and cost $10,000-50,000?
If they made wind up watches and a telephone that is a telephone and one that doesn't track you they would have better sales.
iwatch, Too frigging funny. Can you san completly FUCKING disassociated from reality! A watch that lasts 3 hours that must be recharged daily along with my iphone. Hell to the fucking NO.
They would be better off coming up with an isuppository which is what they really want. Something to collect biological data 10,000 times a second so they can sell the data to insurance companies. After all there should be a ummm how do you say "gay" market that is waiting with baited breath. Jeezzzuussss christ.
Yeah, my loaded POS cellular iPad gives me the time and all the other crap too. Just need to strap it to my thigh.
I have a Timex analog (that means it has hands, for all you Millennials) that has worked for 10 years and has smashed its way around the world 4 times. Changed the battery once I think.
Like a Bankster's hooker: Takes a licking and...
The Rolex Submariner has handsomely out performed wall street and almost any financial market investment in terms of capital gains since 1953.
Plus, the ladies like the James Bond vibe even if you aren't licensed to kill.
These are nice: http://s175.photobucket.com/user/LotusElise111S/media/Omega/PIC_1546.jpg...
I like the light weight of the titanium.
here's the Stainless Sub price graph from 57 to present.
http://ablogtowatch.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/R...
Doesn't hurt that Navy Seals were issued Rolex's for a very long time also.
I think I will wait for the iwatch 42 with a 42 " bendy 3 d screen and dolby 7 surround.
I don't need a watch, I have a cellphone.
As an avid old school mechanical watch enthusiast (mind you I have no problem with quartz watches either) I find this whole "smart watch" business to be complete rubbish! FFS, make a smart phone that can last for more than couple of days on a single charge already before going into smart watches!
This is why most companies spend more on marketing than production and R&D combined--wait and see what happens when no woman will look at you, no one will respect you, and no one will hire you--unless you're wearing a smart watch
That's a good filter, albeit in reverse. Anyone who would treat you one way or the other based upon some stupid fad... is someone you're better off staying away from.
Old skool snark: When people retire, they now get either an iSwatch or a gTag?
That's something to pass onto your grandchild.