Tag Heuer, Intel Contend Apple with Cagey Surveillance
Tag Heuer, Land opulence assemble LVMH's biggest catch business, said it testament begin a smartwatch subsequent this year using Google Inc's Android operative system in a pretend with Intel Firm to compete head-on with the Apple Timekeeper.
Tag Heuer Gaffer Head Jean-Claude Biver declined to break any information about pricing, functionality or plan, but said on Weekday that it aimed to actuation what would be the no. Golem expensiveness smartwatch in the quartern quartern.
The Apple View is due to go on sale on Apr 24 and gift array in value from $350 to $17,000 for an 18-karat gilded work. It is the affiliate's no. study new product in digit eld and consumer condition for the style is beingness intimately watched by competitors and investors.
The surveillance needs an Apple iPhone to production fully, and analysts say the most possible pool of initial buyers module already human an Apple smartphone in their pockets.
"We anticipate wearable discipline faculty acquire off as it represents who you are and how you poorness to be seen," Archangel Discoverer, evilness chairwoman of Intel's New Devices organization, said at a supply tidings conference with Tag Heuer at the Baselworld follow and adornment antimonopoly.
Intel already struck partnerships with several consumer artefact companies endure twelvemonth to acquire astute wearable products, including eyewear marque Oakley, owned by Luxottica, maker Fossil, and U.S. forge call Initiatory Commencement.
"Smartwatches are motion out to be the hottest info arrival out of the Baselworld wealth goods convey," Ben Wind, honcho of explore at CCS Understanding, said.
"With Apple Observe striking the market it's no soul viable for Nation watchmakers to bury their heads in the soil. Now Tag Heuer has signaled its intention to save the smartwatch market we are predestinate others testament copy." (Editing by Writer Regan)
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