Six years after releasing the Apple Watch, it’s still not clear who is going to represent genuine competition for Apple in the wearables space. Apple has a wearables lead of not just a few years but more like a decade. https://t.co/qUyqzTQdab
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) May 29, 2021
.@neilcybart understates the ecosystem advantage Apple's wearables lead gives it: to buy an Apple Watch, you need an iPhone, and then you're (usually happily) stuck within Apple's ecosystem indefinitely. In that sense... https://t.co/gzNPHfD3pv
— Avi Greengart (@greengart) May 30, 2021
...Apple Watch's success presents a long term existential threat to competitors selling mid/high range (read: profitable) phones AND related services. Samsung was competing, but clearly not well enough, ergo was willing to work with Google. But...
— Avi Greengart (@greengart) May 30, 2021
Apposite to the AR/VR discussion this morning with @Post_Market and @patrick_oshag https://t.co/bj0T0Cngd8
— Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) May 30, 2021
Apple Has a Decade-long Lead in Wearableshttps://t.co/qUyqzTQdab
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) May 28, 2021
A series of events have come together to give Apple a wearables lead of not just a few years but more like a decade.
「コンピュータは分散する」というのが持論なのですが、appleのウェアラブル販売台数の伸びはそれをゆっくりと、確実に実現している凄みがありますね。
— 鈴木敦也@FOVE, Inc. COO (@a28szk) May 31, 2021
これをティムクックが推し進めているのが更に凄い。https://t.co/71rXPJwCMU