Why the Apple Watch Will Crush

I've been hearing a lot of tech dribble about how the Watch (Sorry, non-Apple users. This translates to “Apple Watch” on a Mac.) will be a lackluster release at best and a dismal failure at worst. These "experts" site the number of Android-wear watches sold total less than one million and the Watch is dependent on an iPhone to do anything and it's starting price of $349 is too expensive and so on and so forth. These are the same "experts" who said the iPad was "just a big iPod Touch" and the iPhone was destined to fail because it lacked a physical keyboard. The point is, a complete industry exists who's sole purpose is to predict Apple's doom at every turn. They don't ever have to be right. They don't even have to site accurate data. All these journalist businesses have to do is generate clicks, and pissing in Apple's Cheerios is a proven method for success. It's just like someone at MotorWeek writing a piece about how badly a new Ford sucks. Right or wrong, it's bound to get a few million Chevy fans fired up.

So, I'll just ignore all the link baiters and counter what few semi-legitimate points I've read. First, there's the one about how few wearable (Android, Pebble, etc.) devices have sold to date.

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