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10 Years of Apple Watch: How It Evolved and What's Next

Published on: 2025-04-21 04:00:00

I wasn't always hooked on the idea of an Apple Watch, especially back when it first launched on April 24, 2015. Unless you were into tracking workouts (which I wasn't) it didn't seem necessary at all, especially if you already had an iPhone. A decade later, I’m one of those people who swear by it as a sanity-saving tool for juggling work and life. (Still don’t care about my fitness rings, though.) Apple is celebrating the watch's 10th anniversary with a few digital treats and even giving away pins at stores on April 24th for a special "Close Your Rings Day." So for this week's episode of One More Thing, which you can watch embedded above, I wanted to look back on the history of the Apple Watch and how this wearable computer expanded Apple's health business -- and changed how we interact with tech. The Apple Watch itself had quite a start, debuting at a two-hour Apple live event on September 9, 2014. It was the same day Apple revealed its first plus-size phone with the iPhone 6, and i ... Read full article.