Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV

Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV

By Peter Burrows & Olga Kharif - 2013-03-04T10:45:13Z While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company’s wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable. The global watch industry will generate more than $60 billion in sales in 2013, said Citigroup Inc. analyst Oliver Chen. While that’s smaller than the pool of revenue that comes from TVs, gross margins on watches are about 60 percent, he said. That’s four times bigger than for televisions,

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  1. John Gruber

    74.0 days ago

    Just me, or is there no news in today’s widely-cited Bloomberg iWatch report: http://t.co/NbKs6DCjuy

  2. Todd Smith

    74.0 days ago

    Here's Why Apple’s iWatch Will Be More Profitable Than Apple TV http://t.co/ObY4cYAvvv



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