“The countdown for the release of the Watch from Apple Inc. has begun,” Ritesh Anan reports for Benzinga. “According to Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, it will be the app developers who will determine how many watches Apple manages to sell. Munster was on Bloomberg to talk about the Apple Watch.”
The roadmap here is similar to what happened with the phone. The iPhone came out, it was marginally better. What really got it exciting for people is just that developers built apps that really changed your phone into a lot of different thing and that’s going to be the expectation with the watch, too, as the developers are going to actually build the true value. – Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst
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MacDailyNews Take: Poor Gene, he must have fallen and hit his Apple Television-lovin’ head if he thinks the iPhone was just “marginally better” than anything then on the market from the industry that iPhone single-handledly revolutionized.
How soon some forget. Are you in Colorado this week, Gene? Amsterdam? You really ought to know better.
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
This Clown has no clue …. Gene talks from both sides of mouth ….. Or say say it another way:
He voted for it before he voted against it, silly rabbit!
It is amazing this Gene joker keeps his job. He has brains and an analysis sense more in common with jocular imbecile Herman Munster.
waiting for the “here is what watches looked like before…” picture
not to mention…… “here is what cars looked like before…..”
“Marginally better”? …… what !?
And this moron actually gets paid to write this garbage?
And then he goes on to enlighten us with this magic insight… Apps matter !
Wow.. Really Gene!? Apps are actually useful for computers !?
Your intelect is mesmerizing!
I distinctly remember the industry saying that smartphones without physical keyboards were useless. They were always trying all sorts of ways to add in physical keyboards. Supposedly the iPhone without a keyboard was all wrong especially when it came to business usage. Seriously, except for BlackBerry is any company using or thinking about using a physical keyboard. Hell, NO! The advent of the iPhone simply showed how useless those physical keyboards were.
However… Until I see some apps, I can’t imagine any great need for AppleWatch for the majority of consumers out there. My interest is in wanting the advanced biosensors, end of story. I can only hope Apple’s marketing of the AppleWatch will help drive iPhone sales. However, I wish AppleWatch were usable with some newer version of an iPod Touch for those who don’t wish to spend money on an iPhone contract.