“The Apple Watch isn’t just another iDevice, a wearables accessory to the Apple ecosystem,” Jean-Louis Gassée writes for Quartz. “It’s a bold attempt to create a new kind of wrist-worn personal computer that looks like a smartwatch.”
“In previous Monday Notes dealing with the putative iWatch and other wearables, I thought the new product would be a nice add-on to the iDevices ecosystem — a bit player that would make the iPhone more desirable — but that it wouldn’t move the needle, meaning $10 billion or more in revenue,” Gassée writes. “I reasoned that a watch battery would be too small to feed a computer powerful enough to offer a wide range of apps and communications capabilities.”
Gassée writes, “I was wrong… the Watch isn’t just a shrunk-down iPhone: It can stand on its own, it has introduced an entire new genre of user interface, and will have its own App Store. The reinterpreted watch crown, a side button, touch and pressure on the face, plus voice all combine to a potentially rich and unique set of ways to interact with this newest very personal computer.”
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