While most expect the iWatch to rely on health and fitness tracking as its key selling points, at least one analyst sees a new voice messaging system as the device’s true killer feature.
Everyone’s on the lookout for something of a ‘killer feature’ that will eventually single out one particular Smartwatch as the device to buy. So far, it’s all been much of a muchness and it seems the whole market is about to jump on the health and fitness tracking bandwagon.
So if this is the case, how will Apple’s iWatch make a name for itself?
According to one analyst at least, the key lies in a new voice messaging feature.
Steve Milunovich of UBS fame has once again broken silence on the subject of the iWatch – this time to talk up a unique feature of potential mass market appeal. Having recently met personally with Apple CEO Tim Cook, he got the tip-off that people in China were increasingly showing favor to devices that allowed them to speak text messages instead of writing them, and also to hear them rather than having to read them.
As such, Milunovich sees reason to believe that this kind of simple voice messaging system could play a vital role in the makeup of the iWatch as a feature of genuine convenience and appeal.
Of course, text-to-audio features and vice-versa are hardly new and in most cases remain fundamentally flawed – language recognition technology used in mobile devices often leave a lot to be desired. As such, it would take some serious improvements to Siri in order for the iWatch to present a genuinely flawless voice messaging system, though Milunovich for one seems to think Apple is already on the way to making it happen.