The Apple Watch: Is it a bust?

When the idea of the Apple Watch was published earlier this year, I was skeptical. As we know, Apple is a leading force in the technological world. Almost everyone you see walking down the street is either talking on their iPhone, listening to music on their iPod or using their iPad or Macbook. It is hard to escape Apple products. The demand for Apple to come out with the “new best thing” was high. Apple describes the Apple Watch as “our most personal device yet.” Wikipedia describes the Apple Watch as a smartwatch developed by Apple Inc. that incorporates health-oriented capabilities as well as integration with iOS (Apple product software) and other Apple products and services (Wikipedia). The Apple Watch is basically supposed to be an iPhone or Macbook on your wrist. Since people were skeptical about the Apple Watch, many were expecting sales to follow the trend of the skeptical views. Surprisingly, Apple Inc. sold more Apple Watches in their first quarter that the Apple Watch was available, than it did iPad or iPhones (Wakabayashil). This raises the question, why were people so skeptical? Is the Apple Watch a bust? Wall Street Journal says that after the Apple Watch was first introduced in April, customers were not able to buy any models of the Apple Watch in store until the middle of June. Wall Street Journal suggests that it would be unfair to call the Apple Watch a bust. Even if Apple were to sell all of their least-expensive models, the Apple Watch revenues would have surpassed $1 billion (Wakabayashil).

So? What do you have to think about the Apple Watch? Does anyone have an Apple Watch? If so, was it worth the purchase?

Original Article:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/27/apple-watch-sales-may-be-pretty-good-after-all/?mod=ST1

Sites Used:

http://www.apple.com/watch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch