Smartwatch sales are tanking
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Smartwatch sales are tanking
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#2had one and returned it. They don't provide much value beyond real-time notifications & a fancy pedometer.
Re: Smartwatch sales are tanking
#3had one and returned it. They don't provide much value beyond real-time notifications & a fancy pedometer.
Same. I had a huawei and it was like using the original iphone; had potential but needs constant kid gloves to operate and couldnt go far from the charge dock. Going through menus took almost seconds, even with different versions of Android wear.
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#4had one and returned it. They don't provide much value beyond real-time notifications & a fancy pedometer.
Have an apple watch. Notifications are useful but charging it every day is such a huge inconvenience that i don't bother with it.
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#5Seems like they will stay a niche until they can replace phones entirely, and perhaps even past then. A lot of people just don't like having something strapped to their wrist and/or want a large screen.
As a watch guy (and most watch people are guys) the first smart watch I've been excited about is the upcoming gear S3:
http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-s3/
Because it looks like a real watch and has the rotating bezel for input, but I recognize I'm a tiny market.
I hope it doesn't set my wrist on fire.
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#6When I'm not wearing my mechanical Seiko, I wear a Garmin GPS for running. Always-on is big for me. Are there any that have that feature these days?
Re: Smartwatch sales are tanking
#7had one and returned it. They don't provide much value beyond real-time notifications & a fancy pedometer.
Yeah, this is why I went with the Pebble over the others - it gets the realtime notifications and the fancy sleep tracker and pedometer - and due to eink, can keep its screen on without the need to be charged every night.
That's all I wanted it for, that's all it does. And most importantly - it's priced like that's all it does.
Re: Smartwatch sales are tanking
#8had one and returned it. They don't provide much value beyond real-time notifications & a fancy pedometer.
I think that android Casio smartwatch looks pretty cool... But I'm not paying more than $200 for a watch. When they can operate as a regular watch and a good notification device, I'll consider paying maybe $300. It's just a lot of money for a relatively useless object on your wrist.
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#9I suspect people /want/ a smart watch so they can feel like Dick Tracy and Roger Smith (Anime, Big O).
The reality is that the smart watch is little more than a smaller screen attached by wireless personal area network to the real computer; which has a better (bigger, brighter, larger buttons) and more responsive screen.
I stopped wearing a normal watch once I had a decent pocket chronometer (a comparatively primitive simple pocket flip phone).
I think that's the marketing problem here; it isn't clear to the average consumer what the use case, if any, actually is.
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#10Man, I didn't expect Pebble to be down so much. My wife and I have 5 of them between us. The always-on screen and a week of battery life make them much more attractive than most other smartwatches.