In consumer market, iPad was the last device that created new category
in consumer market. Four long years has been passed since then and new
devices are coming to disrupt the market again. Truly speaking iPad as
not as disruptive as Smartphones. iPhone launched in 2007 created true
disruption in computing. Today, mobile apps has
overtaken PC in internet usage.
As
new and new wearables such as Google watch, Apple watch are coming to
the market, can we expect that these devices are going to disrupt the
computing market?
I expect only two capabilities in a device to be disruptive
- Ability to connect to internet
- Capability to do tasks done by other computing devices
Smartphones were disruptive as they had capability to connect to
internet and do most tasks done by other devices. Point 2 was partially
satisfied.
Lets examine how wearables should be designed to be really disruptive....
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