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The Future of Apple Watch

The Future of Apple Watch

April 17, 2015

Dave Mark, LoopInsight:

The Apple Watch is brand new. So much change is coming. The vast majority of the current Apple Watch processing is dedicated to communicating the results of processing done on the iPhone. The current Apple Watch is a relay device. But my guess is that that will change over time. As battery life continues to improve, as the processor gains power, as the software continues to evolve, the Apple Watch will grow and do much more “in house” processing. Apple will guide that process by adding to the Apple Watch SDK, giving developers more to work with, more flexibility to extend the bounds of what makes an Apple Watch app.

This is exactly right. And this is what many naysayers have a hard time comprehending. Every product that’s succeeded was never the most ideal product at its birth. There’s always tradeoffs whether it be price, features, performance, or a combination of all three. They key, however, is to start and consistently push the limits of iteration and improvement. That’s what gets a product to become a smash hit over time.

The iPod, iPhone, iPad, and even the MacBook Air all went through the same growing pains. If the Apple Watch follows the same iteration path as those products, it’s destined to easily be the best product in its class.