This fall marks the eighth anniversary of the announcement of Apple’s newest major hardware category, the Apple Watch. In that time, it has become the leading example of a wearable device, and though other companies have produced competitors, none of those has quite managed to match the popularity or cachet of the Apple Watch.
The device has evolved too—perhaps not as dramatically as the iPhone did in its first eight years—changing from a do-everything phone replacement on the wrist to one focused on health and fitness…and then