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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?
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @08:37AM
Well, I'm over 40, started to wear a watch as a child and ever since wore one, and I didn't smash my watch even once. I also don't have problems to read my watch. Indeed, I can even read my watch if I intentionally blur my view of it. That's the advantage of a classic clock hands display; if you know what direction is up (which you can easily infer from the position of your arm) and in which directions the hands point (which isn't hard to recognize) you know what time it is.
A smartwatch, I don't have a use for.