Welcome to the A16Z podcast. We are sitting here today with Steven Sinovsky and Benedict Evans. Welcome, gentlemen.

Hello. Hello. You two are sporting two models of the Apple Watch. I will say Sinovsky is wearing a Darth Vader black. It is the...

It's the cheap one. Shall we say the cheap one? I got the cheapest one because my thought was I'll end up having to buy another one in some short period of time.

That's the master plan, I think.

And so for those of you playing along at the Apple Store right now,

Benedict is wearing the one with the kind of lacy metal band in chrome or something stainless.

It's stainless steel and it's called a Milanese loop of all things.

A Milanese loop of all things.

Okay, great.

Now that we know that.

So we want to talk about the Apple Watch.

You guys have been wearing them now for about a month.

And so that's time enough it seems to sort of know what it's good for.

So Stephen, give us your initial impressions. Well, the first thing

that occurs to me is that it's not a smart watch. Like all of the lead up to it was Apple entering

the smartwatch category. And you think that everybody who predicts things by now would know

that when Apple comes out with a new product, it generally isn't one that fits in the predefined category notions that people have.

Right.

And so to me, the thing that I noticed the most is it spans all of these categories, whether it's an exercise monitor or a timekeeping device or a wrist-based computational

device.

So before you actually got this thing, what did you think you were going to do with it and then

how has it changed or what are you doing with it?

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