There’s not that many youngsters I know who wear wrist watches these days, apart from as a fashion accessory, maybe sometimes.
After all, the majority of kids have a smart phone on them, which is really a supercomputer that tells you everything you need to know, including the time.
So a report from Digitimes Research has me wondering whether the right hand knows what the left hand is doing.
The report suggests the entry of the Apple iWatch will boost the smartphone market, which, in the developed countries at least, has reached saturation.
Average selling prices of smartphones are falling but Digitimes Research seems to believe that if Apple releases its iWatch in the second half of next year, the brand power alone will boost the ASPs.
The research reckons that smart watch shipments will amount to 5.92 million units next year, 22.79 million in 2015 and 75.66 million in 2016, but that’s only if Apple gets its watch out.
Older people tend to wear watches and our eyesight isn’t as keen as youngsters’ – so the development of larger display smartphones has been something of a boon.
You can read more, if you can see the screen on your smart watch, here.
