Watchmakers, caught off guard by the success of Apple Inc.’s smartwatch, are now trying to keep pace with changing customer tastes by introducing messaging alerts and other high-tech features to traditional watches. […] While some traditional watchmakers have tried to move into smartwatches, many have focused on hybrids. Typically, these don’t have touch-screens. Instead, theyweiterlesen

Swiss watch exports had their biggest decline in six years in October, led by a 39 percent slump in shipments to Hong Kong, the industry’s largest market. […] “2015 has been one to forget for the watchmakers,” said Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux in Zurich. Corinne Gretler | „Swiss Watch Exports Fall Mostweiterlesen

Steve Jobs zeigte das Ur-iPhone im Januar 2007. Bis das Telefon jedoch in die ersten Kundenhände fiel, verstrichen noch einmal sechs Monate. Dieses erste Halbjahr, das kaum neue Informationen bereithielt, geschweige denn persönliche Erfahrungsberichte, ähnelt der Apple Watch. Niemand weiß viel, doch alle äußern ihre Meinung. Speziell zum Jahreswechsel schwemmte es noch einmal unzählige dieserweiterlesen

In making a watch, Apple enters the rare industry that can match its own obsession over detail. That was immediately clear in the time Apple chose to display on the device: nine minutes past 10 o’clock. Zachary M. Seward | Quartz 10:09 ist nicht nur ein Augenzwinkern in Richtung Rolex und TAG Heuer, sondern gleichzeitigweiterlesen