Apple Google Samsung on the Smart Watch Race

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6 points·antoniuschan99··5 comments

I have the feeling I am going to pass on so called smart watches.

I had a digital watch back in the 70s when they were way cool but in time learned the value of a watch with hands - read with the shortest glance and just think, the display is on all the time and battery life is counted in years.

I have heard suggestions that a smart watch would tell you when you have messages on your phone - but my phone manages that just fine with sound or vibration (as set and circumstance).

Data entry is not a practical proposition - without hooking up via yet another cable to a PC.

I just cant see it.

That might be it! You know, I had a digital watch back then too. It was the craze. We're probably going to experience it again. We're already going through an 80s resurgence in fashion especially with the hipsters. It might happen with watches. Plus, there is some serious demand for these things. Kickstarter top funded projects are Smart Watches. And I recently read an article saying Kickstarter is the most democratic platform out there.

I think we'll see a totally different way of using watches. It'll start with services suitable for a small device. For e.g. automatic transfer of body signals such as bp, heart rate; calendar notifications, location based information, calling services with a bluetooth earphone, etc. Building 'smartness' is the key here - provide a powerful platform and let developers think about ways of making it useful - you don't really need to be able to see all the possibilities.

Smart Watch, the new 3D TV.

loool. You might be right!

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