{"id":653809,"date":"2013-04-22T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=456778"},"modified":"2013-04-22T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T01:30:39","slug":"survey-shows-19-of-north-american-consumers-want-an-iwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653809","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows 19% of North American consumers want an \u2018iWatch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/apple-iwatch-consumer-interest-survey-456778\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/iwatch-render-1.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Survey shows 20% of North American consumers want an &#039;iWatch&#039;\" title=\"iWatch Spiral Menu Render\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>One of the big questions surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> this year is whether there will be any significant market for its so-called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iwatch\">iWatch<\/a>&#8221; that will reportedly act as a wearable computing accessory that can complement its other mobile devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2417984,00.asp\"><em>PCMag<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new survey of North American consumers from ChangeWave Research showing that roughly one in five consumers are either &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;very&#8221; likely to buy an <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/apple-iwatch-launch-date-topeka-410277\/\">Apple-branded watch<\/a> when it&#8217;s released.\u00a0ChangeWave director of operations Andy Golub told<i>\u00a0PCMag<\/i>\u00a0that interest in the still-unconfirmed &#8220;smartwatch&#8221; is a testament to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/11\/25\/apple-leads-in-loyalty-84-of-iphone-users-60-of-android-users-plan-to-stay-loyal-study-finds\/\">Apple&#8217;s enduring brand strength<\/a> with consumers and noted that &#8220;Apple&#8217;s track record of delivering ultra-convenient, easy to use products with a perceived &#8216;cool factor&#8217; is driving pre-release demand.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/gGJSJWl8PwA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big questions surrounding Apple this year is whether there will be any significant market for its so-called &#8220;iWatch&#8221; that will reportedly act as a wearable computing accessory that can complement its other mobile devices. PCMag points us to a new survey of North American consumers from ChangeWave Research showing that roughly one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}