Comment by londons_explore
3 years ago
Sometimes new and soon to be very popular things have a seriously negative response here in HN initially.
Think of Snapchat. I'm sure everyone in tech would have said 'nah, there is no market for a messaging app where all messages disappear after 15 seconds'.
And yet only a year or so later it was sending more photos than any other platform.
Apples product might be the same.
That’s the usual refrain isn’t it? You can apply “remember how everyone said X wasn’t useful?” to almost anything.
Honestly I think this will be pretty middle of the road. Apple Watch started off with a general market, and pivoted to health/fitness.
I could totally see them readjusting as time goes on into whatever people start using it for. But it’ll be a niche. I think the “it’s for everyone” marketing from today is a way to gauge who really is their target market, not the market itself.