“Apple Watch can’t fail,” Andy Faust writes for WatchAware. “Can. Not. Fail.”
“There are several different individual contingencies that make up this reality, and they’re each compelling enough,” Faust writes. “I’ve written about the lot of them before, but it’s come to my attention that most readers gloss over the good bits when an essay is a meandering thousand words or more. So, bullet points!”
The way I see it, here are Apple Watch’s possible outcomes, in order of likelihood from most to least:
• Apple Watch is Apple’s number three product
• Apple Watch is the next Apple TV
• Apple Watch becomes the standard fitness wearable
• Apple Watch redefines the home medical industry
• Apple Watch is discontinued sooner than expected
• Apple Watch surpasses iPad in popularity
• Apple Watch is the next iPhone
“What happens if Apple Watch is a wipe out? Wearables die. All of them. Forever (or, at the very least, for a very long time),” Faust writes. “Apple will have effectively forced the entire tech world to double down on the smartphone, where iPhone is the gold standard (and growing)… Apple Watch can’t fail. And Apple can’t lose.”
Each of the bullet points explained here.
MacDailyNews Take: Faust underestimates Apple Watch.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]