The clues, and resulting flurry of speculation, are planting the seeds of an Apple watch in consumers' minds.

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In the late 1700s, American land speculators sent legions of young men into the wilderness to plant apple seeds.

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But the 1970s, the decade of Apple's birth, offers hope that hardy seeds can take root even in bad climates.

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