“Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop,” Mark Wilson writes for Fast Company. “And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons.”
“The Apple Watch is Jonathan Ive’s Newton,” Wilson writes. “When I look at the Apple Watch, I’m not seeing an empathetic creation for the masses. I’m seeing what the New Yorker’s more than 16,000-word story on Jonathan Ive would only hint at—that Apple may have built out the watch to satisfy the urges of a designer who has become more obsessed with Bentleys and Rolexes than making attractive, functional technology that will actually make life better for the 99%.”
“The Newton, Apple’s original, failed tablet, didn’t sell because tablet technology wasn’t polished, and we didn’t have the wireless networking infrastructure to make its experience particularly meaningful,” Wilson writes. “Sound familiar?”
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When Jobs presented the iphone, I knew it would be a smashing hit.
When Cook pulled out the watch, I was thinking this would be a flop and I still hold on to that belief.
Oh sure, there will be lots of people in line for it but I think after a month of use, it would quietly be placed in your drawer.
“satisfy the urges of a designer…. not a creation for the masses”
Steve Jobs would have said that is exactly Apple’s philosophy.
Companies who create guided by the mantra ‘for the masses’ are like those guys who kept building phones with keyboards as the focus groups and polls show the masses wanted them ….
Hopefully the watch won’t become a burden, like Bluetooth headsets. Started off strong, but not many in use these days.
Mark Wilson is clearly a pen name used by John “No Evidence” Dvorak.
This guy’s a dipwad. 150 years ago he would have announced that trains made no sense because there weren’t tracks going everywhere. The infrastructure for this watch is much farther along than when the Newton was for sale. Apple has the financial ability to do what it wants with the watch, and there’s no better company to take that on than Apple. It’s part of the new infrastructure of what he calls the Disney watch world. If Apple executes this the way I think they can, they’ll help create that world for the 99% this bozo thinks will be left out.
I predict this pundit will flop!
Even the premise is wrong. Ive was tasked with fixing the 1st Newton’s flaws but was stymied by engineering compromises; something he doesn’t have to worry about this time round http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jony-ives-first-apple-design-2014-11
Sorry Mark Wilson who writes for Fast Company, but your FUD is a FLOP. Just watch, or rather Watch. 😉
I want my cabbage patch doll….
MDN.
Can you reach out to Mark Wilson for an official comment please?????