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Title: TAG Heuer working on an Apple Watch rival after criticizing smartwatches Post by: HCK on January 22, 2015, 09:00:17 am TAG Heuer working on an Apple Watch rival after criticizing smartwatches
<article> <section class="page"> <p> After months of bashing Samsung, Sony, and Pebble’s “cheap, plastic-designed watches,” (http://www.techhive.com/article/2450079/this-is-what-luxury-watch-executives-think-of-your-cheap-plastic-designed-smartwatch.html) luxury watch maker TAG Heuer is developing its own smartwatch.</p><p> Jean-Claude Biver, head of TAG Heuer parent company LVMH’s watch division, told Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-19/tag-heuer-casts-aside-swiss-made-label-to-take-on-apple-watch.html) that the upcoming Apple Watch is a huge threat to sub-$2,000 watches. So TAG Heuer will be working with Silicon Valley tech companies to create its new watch, which unlike its heritage products won’t be entirely made in Switzerland.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2873119/tag-heuer-working-on-an-apple-watch-rival-after-criticizing-smartwatches.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: TAG Heuer working on an Apple Watch rival after criticizing smartwatches (http://www.macworld.com/article/2873119/tag-heuer-working-on-an-apple-watch-rival-after-criticizing-smartwatches.html#tk.rss_all) |