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Wearable will be huge. Once you can ditch the phone, the watch becomes far more attractive, but requiring it to link to the phone is silly (though, I'd guess, they look at that as a future upgrade, just like the larger phones are butchering the ipad sales, the watch will butcher the iphone market once it can be a standalone).
Who knows. If they can move the progress faster they'll still kill it. Wait 3 years to make a noticeable improvement and they'll slowly fade.
Fitness will be the ongoing market, but you can't have it linked to a phone! No one runs with a phone and I don't think many really want to mtn bike with a fragile $350 piece of glass and an iphone in your backpack (I don't mind the price as much as the size/fragility). I certainly would never workout with a big watch.
Fitbit and Microsoft are moving much more logically into those markets.
The real thing to watch will be the frenzy, then the die down to real market sales. Can Apple sustain growth with the watch? If not, they are chasing trivial (arguably) fashion accessories with gold macbooks and phones, which we are seeing the advantages Apple has had dwindle dramatically (S6 and M9 look like great phones).
Whatever happens, we are all in for some great tech products from all manufacturers.