Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why the Apple Watch should succeed

With the Apple Watch just months away, it seems that the PR machine is already in over drive. Not a day goes by without a new article in the tech press (and we’re also somewhat guilty of this) about the new wearable that’s expected to launch in April.

Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at length at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, and revealed why the Apple Watch and Apple Pay will succeed, where others have failed.

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My prediction is it will go the way of goggle glasses.

My prediction is it will go the way of goggle glasses.

It won't have the take-up of iPhone, that's for sure - but no way it's going to be buried like google's goggles.

It's rare these days for apple products to fail. I for one think it looks cool as hell.

May look as cool as hell but does it work well enough to make people leave their phones and tablets at home.

If the answer is now then what is the point?

May look as cool as hell but does it work well enough to make people leave their phones and tablets at home.

If the answer is now then what is the point?

Its not intended to replace either of those devices - it's a sidekick for them.

I am sure it will sell in droves - more as a status symbol rather than a useful item. I wont be buying one.................. unless it can do something amazing, which I cant say its does based on the info available.

My prediction is it will go the way of goggle glasses.

Remember what the critics said about the iPhone when its release was imminent? From 2006:

Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/

Or how about this one?

The Futurist: We Predict the iPhone Will Bomb

http://techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/the-futurist-we-predict-the-iphone-will-bomb/

Yeah i thought iPad would be a great white elephant now i own 2 of them......

May look as cool as hell but does it work well enough to make people leave their phones and tablets at home.

If the answer is now then what is the point?

it is supposed to work as an extension of your phone which you would still need to carry or at least have in rnage