Apple Watch vs Samsung | The Rise of Apple Watch with Steven Levy (Wired) & Cam Wolf (GQ) | 4
Business Wars
Wondery
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When the Apple Watch first debuted, designer Jony Ive envisioned the gadget as a must-have in the world of high fashion. But even if the smartwatch hasn’t become a mainstay in the luxury world, it has become a tool many of us can’t live without.
Wired Editor-at-large Steven Levy joins David to unpack the evolution of the Apple Watch. Steven’s covered Apple since the early 80s, and he’s connecting the dots to share how the Apple of yesterday brought us the Apple Watch of today. Later, GQ Senior Style Writer Cam Wolf, tells us how the rise of the Apple Watch has changed the mechanical watch market.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. The If you're an iPhone user, there's a good chance you've got an apple watch on your wrist. |
| 0:27.0 | If you're an iPhone user, there's a good chance you've got an Apple watch on your wrist right this very second. |
| 0:35.6 | It might even be hard for you to remember the days before this smart watch took over, |
| 0:40.4 | and now it feels like we're never fully dressed without it, eh? |
| 0:44.0 | Well, in 2023, smart watches adorn nearly |
| 0:47.5 | 220 million wrists worldwide. |
| 0:51.0 | Applewatch leads the space with around 32% market share. Chinese tech company |
| 0:56.0 | Huawei is in second place with 10% and Samsung is in a close third with only 9% of the pie. |
| 1:06.0 | Apple's quest for domination in the wearable sector doesn't stop with watches. Their futuristic-looking Vision Pro headset that dropped earlier this month is aiming to establish |
| 1:12.0 | augmented and virtual reality as part of everyday life, not just a |
| 1:17.2 | sci-fi gimmick. And hasn't that always been Apple's MO, groundbreaking stylish technology that people aren't always sure they need, |
| 1:25.8 | but then decide they can't live without it. |
| 1:28.7 | Almost a year after being announced, the jury's still out on Vision Pro, but perhaps it could be the next game changer |
| 1:35.1 | in Apple's long history of revolutionary product launches. Only time can tell what Apple innovations |
| 1:41.7 | will stick. |
| 1:43.0 | And Wired editor at large, Stephen Levy |
| 1:45.3 | understands this quite well. |
| 1:46.9 | He's been covering Apple since the beginning, |
| 1:48.8 | conducting several one-on-one interviews |
| 1:51.1 | with Steve Jobs, including a conversation that took place in a pizza shop in 1983 |
| 1:57.0 | just before the Macintosh was released. |
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