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To: ggamer who wrote (165415)	2/5/2014 12:34:52 PM
From: Kelly G.	3 Recommendations Recommended By CHRIS LINELL HerbVic Moonray Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

a) Listen to their own music or online music or books b) Monitor their health rate c) Monitor their distance d) Answer their text by voice e) Buy juice or coffee without carrying their wallets f) Get access to maps, weather, etc. And more! Maybe, just maybe, it could give you the time? ;-) Seriously, I think most if not all of the things you listed could be included in an iWatch as well as a few others. The interesting thing to me is how much functionality will be tied to the iPhone. I am sure there will be some. However, I would think that Apple will also want it to be able to function as a stand alone device. If they do this, even non-iOS users would be buyers and, for these people, it could become the gateway to buying other iOS devices. Some of the things you listed would not work as a stand alone device.

To: ggamer who wrote (165415)	2/5/2014 5:35:57 PM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Respond to of 213177

Perhaps iPod will be replaced with iWatch and carry a lot more features. I think many people will replace their iPods with iWatches if they can carry a smaller gadget that provides them more features:a) Listen to their own music or online music or booksb) Monitor their health ratec) Monitor their distanced) Answer their text by voice e) Buy juice or coffee without carrying their walletsf) Get access to maps, weather, etc. But the iPods are already being replaced by phones that can already do everything you named. I agree that a watch is better for certain applications, such as accessing the data while riding a bike (leaving the phone secured and hidden elsewhere), but it's going to take a lot of people to shell out another ~$300 to justify the valuation of the stock. In other words, if everything pans out for the iWatch as many of you are saying it will, then I think the current share price is fairly valued. A huge surge in sales of watches would offset the decline in iPhone profits and Apple would be a pretty good value here. But what I'm trying to determine in picking my entry point is what happens if the iWatch is just a ho-hum success... or if it takes another 6 months to launch. Then what happens? Apple shows no signs of increasing earnings without a stunning and wildly new product soon, and that worries me about the downside.