a16z Podcast: What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't by a16z published on 2015-03-11T21:39:34Z As technology outgrows the tech industry, it moves from selling utilitarian products to selling things that fulfill other desires or pleasures. The Apple Watch is a perfect example of this market shift, says a16z's Benedict Evans. "It's another step in abstraction, and another step in the importance of delight rather than speeds and feeds." Technology meets desire in this segment of the a16z Podcast. image credit: David Adam Kess / Wikimedia Commons Genre Apple Comment by Andrew Korf The critics of the 10k watch obviously know nothing about china and role of luxury goods as status symbols there 2015-03-13T23:11:59Z