By the time you’re reading this, the much anticipated smart Apple Smartwatch will have been announced. Although there have been lots of leaks along the way which may have dampened the recent announcement, the range and ability of Apple’s new ‘baby’ is bound to be a serious player revolutionizing the market place.
But …..
I’ve just been looking at Pebble Time – described by it’s publicists as ‘an awesome smartwatch’ – which has been crowdfunding for just on a week to enable it’s launch onto the market place. As I write, more than 66,000 people worldwide have pledged close to $17,000,000. No doubt those figures will have increased significantly by the time this post is published.
Take a look for yourself at Pebble Time and judge for yourself.
Check out a later announcement of Pebble Time Steel too.
Then have a read of the specs on Kickstarter – and if you are keen to own a Pebble Time Smartwatch be quick – there’s only just over a week to go to make your pledge!
But ….. back to the Apple Watch ….. it’s announcement was less than a week ago and still, the hype hasn’t abated. True to Apple form, it looks awesome! Skip to 5.20 minutes into this short presentation about the Apple Watch given by CEO Tim Cook this week:
All amazing … and rather overwhelming. I wonder if it will just be a novelty or will really become a ‘must have’ item?
Yes – very true! I’m sure that there will be a huge percentage of initial sales being for the ‘novelty’ factor, but in a year or so, today’s smartwatch will be superseded, so the question will become whether or not the market place is ready to spend big dollars on updating their watch.