Apple’s iWatch reportedly won’t ship until next year

If you were hoping for an iWatch this holiday season, you might need to change your wish list. Following reports that Apple will be announcing the iPhone 6 and its first wearable device on Sept. 9, comes news that the company won’t actually start shipping wearable device referred to as the ‘iWatch’ till early 2015. “Sources in position to know tell me it won’t arrive at market for a few months,” says Re/code’s John Paczkowski, who first correctly reported that Apple would be holding an event on Sept. 9 and later that it would be announcing the iWatch on that date too. “So when does Apple plan to ship its eagerly anticipated wearable?” he asks. “That’s not clear, but my understanding is that we’re unlikely to see it at retail until after the holiday season — think early 2015.” It wouldn’t be too unusual for Apple to ship a completely new device months after announcing it. When Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007, it didn’t start shipping till six months later, on June 29, 2007.