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Patents and suing aside, I think Apple's nosedive into the watch industry is a really interesting one considering their past. Traditionally, they enter new prod

Patents and suing aside, I think Apple's nosedive into the watch industry is a really interesting one considering their past. Traditionally, they enter new product lines with great hesitation and deliberation, but it almost seems like in this case, they're trying to catch up with the market (Pebble's massive success, etc.). As a hardware company, they're playing with human real estate. They've already got us locked in our desks and on the go with our phones, but now they're trying to add yet another level of convenience with the watch.

jdminhbg 14y ago
I have never seen a Pebble in the wild. By comparison, I had seen mp3 players, smartphones, and tablets in the wild before the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, respectively.
- tiziano88 14y ago
  they've only shipped a very small fraction of them yet
Terretta 14y ago
The term "nosedive" is typically used to mean disastrous: literally diving only to land on your nose. Did you mean "head first dive" (which means "going for it, all in" as opposed to "dipping a toe") or are you projecting that Apple is plummeting into a crash and burn situation by getting into watches? Also, Pebble's "massive success" with whom? The only people who know about it seem to be those who hang about on tech blogs and forums and crowd sourcing sites. It hasn't crossed the chasm. Apple's key strength has always been, from Apple II to iPhone, crossing the chasm to put a tech category into the hands of normals.
- aviswanathan 14y ago
  Nosedive as in potentially disastrous. It's a matter of semantics. Pebble sold $10 million of units via Kickstarter. Mainstream or not, I'd consider that a mild form of success at the least. And Apple has been able to do that, but their technology/APIs are already being used by third-party companies for similar purposes, so in this case, it seems like they're playing catch-up, at least ideologically.

jdminhbg 14y ago

I have never seen a Pebble in the wild. By comparison, I had seen mp3 players, smartphones, and tablets in the wild before the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, respectively.

tiziano88 14y ago
they've only shipped a very small fraction of them yet

Terretta 14y ago

The term "nosedive" is typically used to mean disastrous: literally diving only to land on your nose. Did you mean "head first dive" (which means "going for it, all in" as opposed to "dipping a toe") or are you projecting that Apple is plummeting into a crash and burn situation by getting into watches? Also, Pebble's "massive success" with whom? The only people who know about it seem to be those who hang about on tech blogs and forums and crowd sourcing sites. It hasn't crossed the chasm. Apple's key strength has always been, from Apple II to iPhone, crossing the chasm to put a tech category into the hands of normals.

aviswanathan 14y ago
Nosedive as in potentially disastrous. It's a matter of semantics. Pebble sold $10 million of units via Kickstarter. Mainstream or not, I'd consider that a mild form of success at the least. And Apple has been able to do that, but their technology/APIs are already being used by third-party companies for similar purposes, so in this case, it seems like they're playing catch-up, at least ideologically.