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Do you love me? With the anticipated Apple Watch launch announcement on March 9th,   I sought a fashion-insider's perspective on wearable devices and the Apple Watch in particular. With an eye to style, aesthetics and fashion, I spoke with Christine Campbell, President of Crimson Mim, an independent women's boutique located in the heart of Silicon Valley. I have known Christine for a few years and serve on the advisory board of Crimson Mim. In general, fashion industry insiders are not happy with how the Apple Watch looks. Since, Apple is trying to sell Apple Watch as a jewelry item, I thought it would be insightful to talk to someone from the fashion industry. Following is our conversation: Chander: What's your take on the state of wearable devices? Christine: The fall of 2013 seemed to be the peek of fitness wearable devices at least among women in Silicon Valley. Almost every customer who came in was wearing one. Now, I'd say, it's one in ten,...

What would a mobile phone look like if we did not have pockets on our clothing? Would we still have a trillion plus dollar mobile industry?

Four years ago, I took a job where I had a one line job description: create a new $100M business in three years for Personal Mobile Devices.  We developed an innovation methodology that worked really well in deciding in which new technologies to invest. Using that methodology, we selected four technologies to commercialize. One of the four was called SmartSense which was a personal wellness platform that included a bracelet, a mobile app, and cloud computing. SmartSense bracelet The SmartSense bracelet measured:  1. Physical activity (steps, intensity, miles walked, calories burned)  2. Stress  3. Skin temperature and ambient temperature  4. Heart-rate 5. Sleep pattern  The magic lay in intelligently gathering the data from the body, analyzing it with history, understanding the correlation and causation among various data sets, and making sense of the user's behavior; then representi...

Ms Mobile at birth  Ms Mobile turned 40 on April 3, 2013 and she is the sexiest woman alive. She changes lives, breaks hearts and brings smiles to the faces of everyone who gets a glimpse of her. Ms Mobile was born on April 3, 1973 in the US. She weighed 2.2 pounds. It is hard to know who the parents are but Dr. Martin Cooper played a key role in bringing Ms Mobile to the world.  The general public in the US found out about Ms Mobile on March 6th,1983 when the first commercial mobile phone, DynaTac 8000x went on sale for $3,995. Prior to the US public becoming aware of Ms Mobile, Japan and the Nordic counties got to know Ms Mobile a little bit. At the time, the most popular fortune teller in the business world, McKinsey , famously predicted that Ms Mobile will amount to nothing i.e.   by year 2000, the global market for mobile phones would be 900,000. In the year 2000, there were 400,000,000+ mobile phones globally. And, today there are more than 6,000,000...