How much would you pay for a smartwatch? It’s the next big thing in wearable technology. Would you pay $200? Would you pay $500? Would you pay $1,000?
How would like to pay over $10,000? You would if it were up to Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer, you probably would. TAG Heuer is teaming up with Google and Intel to make the ultimate smartwatch. Not only that, this could lead to more collaborations between the technology world and French based luxury conglomerate LVMH. Speaking of LVMH, their watchmaking leader Jean-Claude Biver made an announcement at a watch expo in Basel, Switzerland. This announcement included the prediction this new watch would be, “The greatest connected watch.” Android Wear head developer David Singleton backed him up, saying, “When I think about the?watch,?it’s always been a marriage of beauty and utility. We’re going to do that with our partnership.” While TAG will design the watch, Intel will provide the chip system, and Google will take care of the software. This watch is expected to be on the market in late 2015, probably just in time for the Christmas shopping season. That would be the perfect time of year to compete against Apple’s iWatch.
And this is the perfect year to make such a strike. About 28 million smartwatches are expected to sell in 2015. Compare that to less than 5 million in 2014. Apple is expected to garnish over half those numbers. I asked how would you like to pay over $10,000 for a smartwatch. ?That’s the price for Apple’s gold smartwatch, the most expensive one of it’s kind. We don’t know the price of TAG’s upcoming watch. But looking at what’s being manufactured into this creation, and who is behind the creation, this watch could equal, if not exceed, $10,000. Could the Google, Intel and TAG Heuer beat Apple? Or instead of high end watches, could low end watches beat Apple at this game?