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iWatch

Hello Apple Watch. Goodbye Fossil. Well done Shinola.

September 12, 2014 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Apple Watch

Apple releases the most sexy smartwatch on the market. Now the wristwatch industry has to rethink itself in a brave new world. Winners. Losers, and what they can do to save themselves. I was chatting with designer Jeff Berghoff in the wake of Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 6 and the Apple watch. Like me, […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Apple, Apple Watch, Disruption, Fossil, Heuer, iWatch, Nixon, Rolex, Shinola, Tag Heuer

iWatch – Release the Designers

August 7, 2014 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Vintage Watches iWatch Rolex Tudor Heuer

iTunes and the iPod released the musicians. iPhone released a new generation of software developers and game makers. The iWatch should release the designers: graphic designers, industrial designers, experience designers. In previous blog, I wrote that fundamentally, the iWatch has to solve the social problems that the iPhone has created. In a second blog, I […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Apple, crowd source, iWatch, smart watch

iWatch + Health + $55 Billion in Venture Capital

June 23, 2014 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Apple Health, Apple's Craig Federighi speaking

Apple, I See What You Did There. Health isn’t just a cool feature within iOS8, it points to Apple’s next device–the iWatch. At WWDC last month, Apple’s software guy, Craig Federighi, shared the story of Apple’s new feature in iOS8 called Health, which is basically a health dashboard on your iPhone. (Watch the 3-minute video on YouTube.) It’s easy […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Apple, health, healthcare, healthkit, iWatch, WWDC

iWatch – Make Us Fun Again

June 6, 2014 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Illustration of two people walking on phones, Where did all the fun people go?

The iPhone is cool and very capable. But it has created cultural problems that we can do without. Perhaps a new device from Apple can bring back social graces? We need an iWatch. I’ve enjoyed following the buzz around this week’s World Wide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. This is not Apple’s preferred event for announcing upcoming […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Apple, iOS8, iWatch, OSX, WWDC, Yosemite

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