LaSalle Professor Believes Apple's New Watch Will Find Support With Runners And Workout Enthusiasts
By Chris Stigall
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Chris Stigall talked Dr. William Weaver on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about Apple's unveiling of their latest versions of the iPhone and a new smart watch.
Weaver, from LaSalle University's Department of Integrated Science, Business, and Technology, tried to explain Apple's logic in releasing a watch.
"When I deal with my students, these very young people, I don't see them wearing a watch. I wear a watch because I have to make sure I dismiss class on time, but they say 'why should I carry a watch? I already have duplicate technology in my phone, in my pocket…' What Apple has here, and Apple did not invent it, it's just that Apple has said, 'lets do this the Apple way,' is to put an additional screen on your wrist, so that when folks need to know what time it is, instead of pulling it out of your pocket and then having it fall into the toilet or fall onto the ground and break it's screen, you can just glance at the watch and keep on going."
He thinks this product will find much of its support with runners and people who work our regularly.
"There are different manufacturers of 'how many steps did I do today,' and there's lots of running applications for your phone that tell you, not only how many steps did you take, but how many calories did you burn running up and down hills as you went, logging, and all kinds of things like that. That's all available on this little device you wear on your wrist."
Weaver sees us entering a period where a new technology is needed to advance what we currently we rely on.
"Technology wise, it is sort of like time for the caterpillar to crawl into a cocoon and emerge as a butterfly as we change into a new way of doing things. The phone, I'm not going to famously eat my words and say it's reached its limit, but yes, we need to dump the phone paradigm and turn it into something else."