The focus on wearables will be a bit of a head fake and take up a lot of time, energy, and money in 2015 with not a lot of results.
— Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, on his AVC blog predicts Apple Watch will not be the home run product that iPod, iPhone, and iPad have been.
While Wilson doesn t go as far to say Apple Watch will be a flop, his view doesn t exactly jibe with others expectations that Apple Watch is shaping up to be the launch of 2015, according to Quartz, for example.
Quartz says Apple s smartwatch will be everywhere, and that it could be the first big breakout in the wearables category. It cites Morgan Stanley s prediction that there will be 70 million wearables shipments worldwide this year, and that that number will more than triple in 2017.
But wait, score one for Wilson? A Quartz poll found that only 5 percent of iPhone users — you need an iPhone to pair with Apple s smartwatch — said they were likely to buy an Apple Watch this year.
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