“Apple has got a huge completely untapped watch market to tap into,” Cody Willard writes for marketWatch. “Today’s smartwatches aren’t really that smart, and they’re not all that good at being watches either.”
“App and game creators are about to scramble to make their products work on the Apple Watch,” Willard writes. “While there have been plenty of Android and other ‘smartwatches’ on the market, I can tell you from experience that trying to use Android smartphone apps on your smartwatch makes for a brutal user experience.
Willard writes, “Remember, we are living in a App Revolution and the Apple Watch will bring the app-driven ecosystem to this form factor once and for all.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch will even change people’s behavior:
All phones are cumbersome to the same degree. They have to be pulled out, woken up, and poked at… Apple created… a world of iPhone/iPhone knockoff addicts. Apple will change the world again with Apple Watch, replacing iPhone zombies and iPhones on and under dining tables and everywhere else (you know, the stuff the older set complain about: “People nowadays, always looking at their gizmos, nobody can even have a conversation”) with quick glances of the wrist – like in the days of yore….
With iPhone, Apple changed the fabric of our everyday lives: All around the world today, you see people constantly pulling phones from pockets and staring at them. With Apple Watch, Apple will change behavior worldwide once again. A quick glance at your Watch and you’re off. No more smartphone zombies. Watch and see.