When John Legere, T-Mobile’s weird and charismatic CEO, speaks up, we listen. He’s not always right, but he’s always compelling. And in 2015, John Legere is bullish about the Apple Watch. In fact, he thinks it’s about to turn the wearables market on its head.
In a fairly strange press release posted on T-Mobile’s site, Legere said this about the Apple Watch:
I love what Jawbone, Fitbit, Samsung, LG, Microsoft and others are doing in the wearables space. But we haven’t begun to see the potential of this category. It’s going to go from $1 to $20 billion in the next few years. And though we won’t see its full impact in 2015, I believe that the Apple Watch will mark the tipping point when wearables go from niche to mainstream.
And that’s not all. Legere’s also boldly predicting T-Mobile will become the No. 3 wireless carrier in America in 2015.
T-Mobile will – officially – become the No. 3 wireless company in America in 2015. This summer, I said we’d blow by Sprint by the end of 2014 to become the No. 3 wireless company in the US. They have been swinging the bat since I made that statement, so we won’t know where things stand until we get the final score after we both report Q4 earnings, but whether it is now – or soon – I’m telling you, it’s a done deal!
I believe it. Largely thanks to Legere’s moxie, I’m the closest I’ve ever been to dropping my Verizon account for T-Mobile. What about you?
Source: T-Mobile
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
6 responses to “T-Mobile CEO: The Apple Watch will rule in 2015”
Although everything he says is not always true the same goes for many other people in fact every person in the world. But he has managed to help turn a round a company that 2 years ago was on the verge of bankruptcy or losing more customers than sprint. Now they have managed to gain some traction. They still have ways to go of course but ever since I switched I’m very happy. And I think he is 100% correct on the apple watch taking over. Mainly because it is the first of a kind for apple and every one wants to see how it does.
Do it. Switching to T-mobile was the best decision I made in 2014. For less than what ATT was charging me, I get 3GB of data instead of 200MB and can use that data at no extra charge in 127 countries and for tethering in any of those places to boot. And they unlocked my phone. 8 yrs with ATT and they still wouldn’t unlock my phone. Verizon and ATT personify the evil of big companies. We have ATT DSL in our home and it’s slower than tethering with T-mobile.
You must live in a good T-Mo coverage area, where I am its a no go and for me AT&T has been pretty solid. HSDPA+ speeds BLOW Verizon’s LTE away AND AT&T’s LTE Speeds do as well compared to Verizon.
Same here. Switched back to T-Mobile after leaving them when the first iPhone came out which then only ATT&T had. Coverage has improved and at home I use their free signal booster or I could use wifi phoning as well, all without contract! They even paid my early termination fee. After a fight with AT&T they finally agreed to unlock the phone leaving me without service for a week. Pure corporate arrogance!
Doesn’t this fall under the title “NO DUH” I mean its an Apple product and anyone with an iPhone HAS to get one to be considered cool.
It looks nice, but I will wait until Gen 2 and it and let those beta testers work out the bugs.
Go ahead, switch! Couldn’t be happier after leaving AT&T. I’m streaming radio everyday for free now, and the $10/month for unlimited international calls is a great deal. All that for about 1/2 of what I was paying with my former carrier.