IDG Contributor Network: Why did Apple make the Apple Watch?

I’ve owned an Apple Watch since it was first released, and I’ve found it to be a delightful and incredibly useful product. But I never stopped to wonder much about what exactly motivated Apple to create it in the first place.Frankly, I had supposed that Apple just wanted to enter the wearables category. And, of course, that it wanted yet another hit product to increase the company’s profits. While those things certainly played a role to one degree or another, it turns out that