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posted by janrinok on Friday July 17 2015, @04:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-that-is-essential-to-breathing... dept.

You would probably say the same if you were Eric Migicovsky, who runs smartwatch maker Pebble, whose business model involves selling people computers to wear on their bodies.

Even so, Migicovsky's confidence in the wider trend fuelling that business is notable, at a time when despite Apple and Google's moves into the smartwatch market, there is still widespread scepticism about what exactly these devices are for.
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So, what are smartwatches for? Migicovsky compares the current state of the market with smartphones in 2007, in the early days of iPhone and Android.
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For smartwatches in 2015, those core use cases appear to be activity-tracking and notifications – 90% of Pebble owners use notifications every day, according to Migicovsky – with watch-face customisation also scoring highly in Pebble's case.

On paper the case for something like Google Glass becoming indispensible seems stronger. Is Pebble right?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by KilroySmith on Friday July 17 2015, @05:20AM

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Friday July 17 2015, @05:20AM (#210319)

    As long as the designers are in their 30's, I'll never get a smartwatch. They haven't learned yet that the remarkable vision they have starts going to hell in their 40's, and those tiny little icons and text sizes are gonna turn into an indecipherable blur. The most remarkable thing about smartphones is the ability to change the system default font so I can READ THE DAMNED THING.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday July 17 2015, @05:55AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Friday July 17 2015, @05:55AM (#210328)

    You don't want a Dick Tracy phone/tv watch?

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bogsnoticus on Friday July 17 2015, @06:53AM

      by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Friday July 17 2015, @06:53AM (#210335)

      Look at the angle and placement of your wrist when you hold it in such a way to be able to navigate your surroundings, and video chat at the same time. Now, think of where the camera on the watch will be pointing during a vid call.

      Do you really want to examine the inside of my nostrils whilst talking to me via video-link on a smartwatch? 40-plus year old non-hipster nostrils, so the hairs (and boogers) aren't micromanaged to within a micron of their lives. Do you still want a Dick Tracey phone/tv watch?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 17 2015, @11:49AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday July 17 2015, @11:49AM (#210383) Journal

    Smartwatches could be great if they could implement some sort of eye-tracking holographic display. A 1.5 inch display just isn't enough.

    Bendable OLEDs mean that you can have a band display wrapped around your wrist, but that's not much better.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday July 17 2015, @01:51PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Friday July 17 2015, @01:51PM (#210419)

    I'm pretty sure I saw a font size adjustment on my Android Wear watch. I'm also well ver 40 and have no trouble, with or without my glasses. That's just a single piece o data of course, but I do find it quite readable, as I did with my Pebble.