Apple Watch: Will It Revolutionize the Personal Device? By ABC News

The tech, world and much of the broader world was transfixed once again today by Apple, as the company unveiled its latest slate of hotly anticipated new products, but we were the only ones invited backstage for the big event by Apple's CEO himself. Here's world news tonight anchor David Moor. Are you glad we're here? Hey a high-stakes day for Apple, we were there for the exclusive first look hi the scenes as CEO Tim Cook unveiled Apple's latest salvo, the high-tech battle for supremacy, one more thing: just moments before cooking veiling, the Apple Watch with a sleek video celebrating the bling and beauty of it all the company's first brand-new product. In four years. Today we are launching the biggest advancement in the history of iPhone. There have long been questions about when Apple would innovate again when they would introduce the next product, and tonight they have Tim Cook backstage with his own Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch is this the moment for you the moment of your career at Apple. You know this is the moment for Apple I. Don't really think about myself that much it's an incredible moment. I think it shows innovation is alive and well in the same room where his former boss and mentor Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh computer 30 years ago it was 1984, Steve Jobs was on that stage. It was were you thinking about that today, there's not a day that goes by that I.

Don't think of even this morning being here, I especially thought about him and I think he would be incredibly proud to see the company that he loved us, which I think was one of his greatest gifts to mankind. Was the company itself be doing what it's doing today, Apple again showing how it stays ahead of the increasingly intense competition, the Smartwatch, combining health and fitness monitoring? Are you closer to your goal? Very close right now, really did 50 seconds of running 50 seconds, you've burned five calories and tonight hear the first tweet ever from an Apple Watch. You actually be able to send voice-activated tweets from your Apple Watch, and we're going to give it a shot, how fun it is to send the first tweet ever from an Apple Watch period. See you tonight period tonight that tweet has been sent and look at what else it can do so. The faces of your friends actually come up on the watch.

Yes, you just tap on them, and then you can communicate with them, like you always do with message or answer a phone call. Even your blood pressure, your heart beat I can actually feel your heart beat. Yes through your watch. Yes, you tell me how we do this, so I just put my two fingers here, and then I'm sending that to my friend is wearing watch the day of stagecraft didn't end there. These are the new iPhone cooks, unveiling of the iPhone 6 4.7 inches and the iPhone 6, plus five and a half inches and thinner than its previous versions and there's something else. I can do because today apple also announced Apple Pay.

You can hold your iPhone or your Apple Watch at the checkout, no credit card needed. It's interesting. I read the headlines going into today, and there were a lot of people who said Tim. Cook is gonna, walk onto that stage and kill the credit card. Did you I? Think that we put a dagger in it, but in an age where everything can be shared intentionally or not, should we be worried about privacy? The most common concern, I heard in the tweets that I received today were about security, particularly with the headlines about the iCloud, and when you see celebrities get their photos, hacked people think well.

These are famous people and, if they're not protected, then what about us so to put all that information into a watch? Can you assure people to home that there is going to be very tight security David? We wouldn't be doing it. If we didn't feel like that, we wouldn't do it. We feel like we're. Making a leap in how secure things are. The fact is the existing system isn't secure.

The credit card system isn't secure. It's not one that you should feel great about for years. Apple has heard the criticism about how many of their products are made overseas, but tonight Tim, Cook telling me creating American jobs is his priority to is made in America still important to you. It's a critically important, in fact, between the watch and the iPhones that you've seen we will have parts or materials or equipment made in 22 of the 50 states when you say felt amazing, for you was it a defining moment in your career here at Apple? Those really aren't the terms that I, think, and I think about Apple and Apple's employees and our broader ecosystem includes of developers and suppliers etc. , and for all of them today was a very important day, but with the world now seeing this Apple Watch for the first time.

What is the secret to getting people to wear a computer on their wrist? The answer coming from a man who rarely speaks publicly it's great to see you in person that you exist, Apple's legendary senior designer Johnny I've. How did it feel? Good I mean it's an it's a shocking transition when you go from, we were working on this for three years, and it's a relatively small team. So it's an it's a big transition from us from working quietly together and something to then suddenly millions of people know what you're doing that watch will have millions of design combinations. People say you have led the charge when it comes to making this watch something that people want to wear well. I mean I've, been lucky enough to be part of the design team for a long time now, and we've always tried to make products that the people don't begrudgingly use but that they want to use, and I think that the bar for that is very high when it's something that you wear, and it's something that you're going to wear all day every day, and so we worked extremely hard to make it an object.

That would be one it would be desirable, but it would also be personal because we don't want to wear the same so the same one that applause extending across the country outside this Apple Store in New, York City a married couple lining up days ago. This will be our eighth day bag, a patient band of early birds in for the long haul. The new eye products won't be on sale for weeks. Hopefully we can get out of here sooner rather than later before the 19th, but we're I mean we're thinking. It'll, probably be ten days from now cooks, final thoughts on a game-changing day that he says we have made his mentor beam.

You told me you began designing and developing this watch after Steve Jobs died. Do you think he'd be smiling at what you announced today, I think of him every day and I miss him dearly, but today, I think he's smiling for Nightlife I'm David Muir in Cupertino California?.

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