“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:
