The Apple Watch isn’t even out yet, and already it’s picking up some fairly high profile cheerleaders.
Not long after T-Mobile CEO John Legere jumped on the Apple Watch bandwagon by predicting the device will “mark the tipping point when wearables go from niche to mainstream,” MailOnline North American CEO Jon Steinberg has announced his Apple fandom, too — by viciously trashing the competition.
Check out his comments after the jump:
“The amount of tracking devices and wrist devices is almost mind-boggling to me. I’ve seen five or six that have been launched right now and Apple, in my opinion, is going to basically destroy all of these guys,” Steinberg said during an appearance on CNBC’s technology and media show Squawk Alley. ” None of them are really priced that much cheaper, they’re all at about $150 or $250. If you’re going to buy a wearable, and it’s early debated how big that market is, I don’t know why you possibly buy one of these. All these basically do, most of them, are accelerometers, all they do really is track how much you move, the functionality is very limited, so I think if you’re going to buy one of these it’s going to be Apple. It’s coming out in March. I don’t see people buying these other devices we’re seeing at CES.”
For those that don’t know, Steinberg’s a pretty smart and influential guy. Not only was he previously President and COO over at BuzzFeed, but he’s also now steering the ship at the MailOnline — a website that just happens to be the world’s biggest English language news site.
To put that in context, it’s the equivalent of what it would have been like to have Rupert Murdoch proclaim himself a Mac user for life back in 1984 — or for William Randolph Hearst to say he’d only be driven around in a Ford Model T in 1908.
Via: Patently Apple
