Beyond the Phone – McGuire’s Law http://mcguireslaw.com The value of any product or service increases with its mobility. Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:17:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.16 The Watch Analogy is Coming True http://mcguireslaw.com/2015/05/01/the-watch-analogy-is-coming-true/ http://mcguireslaw.com/2015/05/01/the-watch-analogy-is-coming-true/#respond Fri, 01 May 2015 10:47:32 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=6695 This story about the swiss watch industry getting on the smartwatch bandwagon caught my eye. Specifically, the story references forecasts from Strategy Analytics that “28.1 million smartwatches will be sold this year, almost matching the 28.6 million Swiss timepieces that were exported last year.”

For a very long time and even now, I’ve often used the watch as an example of the impact of the technology revolutions on products and industries. In fact, for the past couple of decades, I’ve been saying “in the future, most watches will have bandwidth built in.” It’s always fun when predictions you made in the past, which at the time seemed crazy, become reality that everyone takes for granted. (It’s even better when you documented it more than 5 years ago.)

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Last week I was asked to teach a class on Innovation at Blue Valley CAPS. At the end of the class, we had a good discussion on a variety of topics. One of the students asked about the Apple Watch. My take on it was that the constraints on the watch that limit the target market to owners of the latest iPhone (and the pricing) will keep it from becoming incredibly common. But the hype will drive innovation across the wearables space.

He then asked what function/feature/capability of fitness watches will have the most significant impact on our lives. I told him that, in my opinion, the beautiful thing is that we can’t possibly know. Although Fitbit, Pebble, and others have provided APIs for developers, the Apple Watch will be the first wearable that will attract a broad developer movement. The apps that we can imagine today are not the ones that some unconstrained innovator will envision and deliver that will truly be game-changing. And it’s those apps that will drive change across the entire wearables ecosystem, not just Apple.

This should be fun!

]]> http://mcguireslaw.com/2015/04/10/the-apple-watch/feed/ 0 Beyond the Phone: February 2011 http://mcguireslaw.com/2011/03/06/beyond-the-phone-february-2011/ http://mcguireslaw.com/2011/03/06/beyond-the-phone-february-2011/#respond Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:47:01 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=5971 Converging products into a cellphone is one way that mobility is getting built into every product, but it’s not the only way. Every month, I’ll focus on devices that are integrating the power of mobility into products themselves in ways that create new value for the customer. Power up!

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