“Last year at this time, the tech world was holding its breath waiting for the Apple Watch to be released,” Fredric Paul writes for Network World. “With industry-leading functionality and Apple’s reputation for ease of use—not to mention marketing oomph—we were all hoping it would be the killer device that legitimized the entire category of wearable computing. Of course, that’s not how it turned out.”
” I’m not saying the Apple Watch is a terrible product — though it didn’t do the trick for me,” Paul writes. “It sold millions of units and many of those buyers seem very happy with their fancy new wristwear.”
MacDailyNews Take: Off-the-charts happy, in fact:
Apple Watch satisfaction is unprecedented at 97%; beats original iPhone and iPad – July 20, 2015
“I’m saying that the Apple Watch hasn’t been the kind of revolutionary product many people were hoping it would be,” Paul writes. “There have been lots of questions about the initial version’s usability and the limited number of viable use cases. And it hasn’t led to spikes in sales for other wearable devices.”
MacDailyNews Take: Factually incorrect. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, total shipment volume for the Q315 totaled 21.0 million units, up 197.6% from the 7.1 million units shipped in 3Q14.
“Many people — including me, actually — are now looking forward to version two of the Apple Watch, widely expected to be announced and released later in 2016. We’re all hoping it will be enough improved to do what the version one couldn’t, as well as make wearing a smartwatch seem cool and indispensable,” Paul writes. “I still firmly believe that someone… will eventually come up with a device that does that. Maybe we’ll see that device at CES. Maybe not.”
MacDailyNews Take: Definitely not, since Apple doesn’t attend CES.
“Either way, I’m still convinced that wearables will one day be seen as essential components of how people live, work, and communicate,” Paul writes. “But the sad truth is that hasn’t happened yet, and it’s still not clear exactly what smartwatches need to do in order to achieve that goal. And it’s equally sad but true that the original Apple Watch has to be a huge disappointment to users, vendors and market watchers who felt sure we’d be well past this point by now.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, what’s the answer to the headline under which Network World published your piece, “Why the Apple Watch is the most disappointing tech product of 2015,” Fredric?
Hello?
This is an empty, garbage article that is bereft of, or in direct opposition to, actual facts.
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