{"id":3083,"date":"2014-06-07T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2014-06-07T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:28:20","slug":"apple-tentatively-eyes-october-for-wearable-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apple-tentatively-eyes-october-for-wearable-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Tentatively Eyes October For Wearable Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Paczkowski at Recode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  October. That\u2019s the tentative launch date Apple has set for its first, long-in-the-offing foray into wearable devices. People familiar with Apple\u2019s plans tell Code\/red the company hopes to schedule a special event that month to show off the device, which is designed to make good use of the HealthKit health and fitness information-gathering app it recently showed off at WWDC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New Apple hardware in October? Well, I never. How shocking! This is completely new information! Why, my monocle has popped right off my face!<\/p>\n<p>Actually there is some interesting info in this tidbit, particularly that the <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Trends\/Apple-flexes-healthcare-muscles-with-new-wearable-device\">Nikkei reports Apple is planning to build between 3-5 million of these devices per month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That number (if true) indicates to me this is going to be 1) a multi-country device, 2) fairly affordable and 3) a device for everyone; something in the same realm as their other iOS device-sized businesses.<\/p>\n<p>3-5 million a month definitely ain&#8217;t a niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Paczkowski at Recode: October. That\u2019s the tentative launch date Apple has set for its first, long-in-the-offing foray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,15,402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}