Buoyed by Apple Watch, Wearable Tech Poised for a Boom

During an interview this summer in Chicago, Paul Roth, AT&T‘s president of retail sales and services, described wearable devices as the “future of retail” before adding, “It’s a niche market.” That’s why the tech industry is looking to Apple to do what it does best: Take a budding technology, package it neatly and blow it up into mainstream success. And if any product category needs such an … explosion, it’s the smartwatch.