“The digital-watch industry is prime for disruption. It’s a device with which we already have a relationship whose function has been temporarily replaced by our phones,” Ash Kumar writes for VentureBeat. “When the watch comes back en vogue as a networked device, it will also redefine how we think of and use it.”
“The Apple Watch comes with big features for enabling health monitoring and frictionless payments with Apple Pay. The health and mobile payments industries have yet to embrace mobile internet; the Apple Watch will significantly impact both,” Kumar writes. “Sure, we’ve seen watches that check your pulse, play MP3s, and check email — but those watches were not functional extensions of the most powerful smartphone in history.”
“Developers are already waiting in the wings to build third-party Apple Watch apps, offering a robust ecosystem of existing functionality right out of the gate” Kumar writes. “Messaging, social networking, and real-time information apps will be exceptionally popular with consumers.”
More reasons why Apple Watch will disrupt the digital watch industry here.
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