The decision to launch a smart watch under the Tissot brand is particularly revealing, says Pierre Maillard, a veteran observer of the Swiss watch industry and editor of Europa Star, a trade magazine.
"In President Bush's red states there's an appreciation for people like DonnyOsmond, " says Steven Cohn, editor ofMedia Industry Newsletter in New York.
"Low cost airlines have given people the bug for flying - people who weren't flying before, " says David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor at industry magazine Flight International.
