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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 18 2018, @08:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the less-is-more dept.

El Reg:

Five years ago, a collective mania overtook the industry. Nobody could think of a clear reason why consumers needed an expensive "smart" watch when they already had a smartphone in their hand, pocket or bag. What value could it deliver? Even Google didn't seem sure: in its now notorious launch video, a punter used a watch simply to replicate features on their phone. But the industry convinced itself that wearables were another platform, and nobody wanted to be a sad second in this race. So the giants entered the market. Not because they wanted to, but as a hedge. Someone else might take a lead.

As we predicted in 2014, this was a solution looking for a problem. And an expensive one, at that.

Are wearable devices whose OS wakes up only when needed for smart features the answer?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @03:07AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @03:07AM (#709179)

    I can tell you its about the last thing you want to see someone wearing in the privacy of the toilet.

    I have enough fits trying to get the piss out of me and into the urinal without runback and wetting my own pants in the process... and if I saw anyone filming my attempts, I simply can't express how hard I would want to put my fist right through that glasses-laden face that's filming me.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 19 2018, @03:20AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday July 19 2018, @03:20AM (#709188) Journal

    Give it actual hinges so it can fold up and go into a pocket.

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