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We’ve been hearing about the possibility of an iWatch since the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, but there’s never been any hard evidence that such a thing was actually being seriously considered. In many ways, it feels like the natural evolution of mobile technology (your apps will always be readily available on your wrist!), but at the same time, it seems really, really dumb (I imagine people talking into the watches like a junior spy in a ’70s children’s cartoon and I giggle a little). But now, for better or for worse, we now have our first piece of hard evidence that the Apple folks are working on iWatch: they’ve filed a patent for a “Bi-stable spring with flexible display.”

In English: a slap bracelet with a touch screen.

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Apple is the favorite pet for many news journalists. Go to Google News (or you can bingiton for a side by side comparison), search for “Apple,” and you’ll see what I’m talking about: Apple stock price, Apple supply constraints, Apple law suits, Apple Televisions, Apple Cars, Apple activist shareholders—here an Apple, there an Apple, everywhere an Apple, Apple.

The latest news confirms rumors, which I seemed to have missed, that Apple is developing its very own iWatch (or whatever it’ll be called). Some pundits speculate that this is Apple’s early attempt to start developing mass-market, wearable computers; a pipe dream that futurists have heralded for some time now. While an Apple Watch could be very cool, I think this is a desperate attempt for Apple to continue to boldly innovate where no innovator has gone before (even if they have). How about we stop playing version games and come out with a Retina iPad Mini already? See, Has Apple Finished Disrupting Markets?

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