Apple Watch could be on your wrist in early 2015 if reports out of Taiwan are true. Apple Watch supplier, Quanta Computer, has apparently resolved issues that were holding up the entire production timeline for Apple’s answer to Android Wear. This is good news for Apple fans who have been feeling left out of the wearables game, especially as this week it was revealed that Google is rolling out a bunch of exciting goodies for Android Wear.
In order to ensure that Apple can get into the smart watch game as quickly as possible, supplier Quanta Computer has also upped their employee count by roughly 8,000 people for a grand total of 10,000 employees. Quanta Computer’s ultimate goal is to increase their numbers to between 30,000 and 40,000 workers within the next year in order to meet production goals of shipping between 3 and 5 million Apple Watches. Yowza! So just when can you expect to get your hands on an Apple Watch? You can thank some Apple Store employees for leaking a memo from Retail Senior Vice President Angela Ahrendts who wrote, “We’re going into the holidays, we’ll go into Chinese New Year, and then we’ve got a new watch launch coming in the spring.” Seeing as Spring begins in March of this year and with production slated to begin next month, technically a March release would still constitute early 2015. Ah, semantics!
Not sure what Apple Watch is all about? While all of the details on Apple Watch are still unknown, what we do know is that you’ll have three style options to choose from with the Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport, and Apple Watch Edition. All three will start at an Apple-esque price point of $349 and will feature a completely different user interface from your trusty old iPhone. How different you say? Well for example, the sapphire glass touch screen display will be pressure sensitive which will give users different options for using their Apple Watch, likely something akin to a using the left and right click functionality on your mouse. Apple Watch also looks to be pushing into the fitness market by syncing with your phone’s GPS and offering a whole mess of onboard sensors in order to monitor various biometric readings in order to make it what is (apparently) a powerful fitness tool.