Apple and Wearable technology

Wearable technology is becoming the next big thing, no surprise really since with how technology is advancing now people seen to want smaller and more portable devices. You can see in the market devices are getting thinner and thinner as well as getting lighter. Apple has come out with their own wearable technology the apple watch. There is a fair bit of competition that apple has to go against such as Samsung, Lg and Sony when it comes to touch watches. Although it seems apple has gotten off on the right foot by blowing everyone away with their design as well as the several of wrist band selections you can choose from and not to forget the $10,000 gold watch, which alone has a lot of controversy since with the same amount of money you can buy a Rolex.

    







Ethics 

People who are responsible and accountable in this case would be the consumers as well as the developers of the products. The only reason why multi billion dollar companies spend money researching and making wearable technology is due to the the market wanting it. The implementation of wearable technology could change peoples lives since the may get addicted to it and may focus on using their watch. Another point of wearable technology being a bad decision is because this will increase the expectation boundary making peoples standards higher which may end up making businesses take longer to produce products or even come out with products that doesn't reach expectations. One way to solve this is for the public to stop demanding on smaller technology or for companies be allowed a certain minimum size they are allowed to make device. Although this may lead to an outrage since people may prefer having smaller electronic devices since they are cheaper and possibly easier to use.

Social impacts

The reason the IT development emerged is because of people constantly demanding smaller, lighter and more portable devices, which lead to companies making wearable technology which is easily portable as well as small (like the apple watch).The impacts it has on human life is that it can distract us in life, since it is a fascinating piece of technology. Another impact is could have is that is could end up making people spend hundreds of dollars customizing our watches just to be seen as 'fashionable', 'cool' and even 'swaggy'.

Stakeholders

• The technology market, since they are the ones demanding the technology.
• Large companies such as apple and Samsung, since they are the ones researching and developing the technology as well as making them.
• Investors/shareholders, since they might be in risk if the product fails due to the fact that they will lose money.

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