Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch accessory
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#2I love their verdict on the casio calculator watch The original and the best! :)
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#3There really isn't anything here that would have me wanting to get one. I feel this is a preemptive me too device with no real product vision. Well, other than "we really need to get a watch out before Apple so we can say they copied us".
Re: Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch accessory
#4There really isn't anything here that would have me wanting to get one. I feel this is a preemptive me too device with no real product vision. Well, other than "we really need to get a watch out before Apple so we can say they copied us".
There isn't anything about any smart-watch that would have me wanting to get one. Apple's is going to be equally useless.
The ridiculous part is the price-point. People who spend $300 on a watch, want something that looks nice. They don't want to spend $300 to strap a smart-phone to their wrist, when they already have one in their pockets.
Re: Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch accessory
#5There really isn't anything here that would have me wanting to get one. I feel this is a preemptive me too device with no real product vision. Well, other than "we really need to get a watch out before Apple so we can say they copied us".
There isn't anything about any smart-watch that would have me wanting to get one. Apple's is going to be equally useless. The ridiculous part is the price-point. People who spend $300 on a watch, want something that looks nice. They don't want to spend $300 to strap a smart-phone to their wrist, when they already have one in their pockets.
I'm glad I wasn't the only feeling this. It seems almost a foregone conclusion to tech "pundits" that watches are going to be the salvation for Apple's iPhone fatigue. I just don't get it, the biggest use case is usually "your smart phone is in your pocket, now you won't have to get it out". The only time my smartphone is't already visible is when I am walking or eating dinner (and most of my friends continue to put their smartphones out on the table when eating out).
Re: Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch accessory
#6There really isn't anything here that would have me wanting to get one. I feel this is a preemptive me too device with no real product vision. Well, other than "we really need to get a watch out before Apple so we can say they copied us".
There isn't anything about any smart-watch that would have me wanting to get one. Apple's is going to be equally useless. The ridiculous part is the price-point. People who spend $300 on a watch, want something that looks nice. They don't want to spend $300 to strap a smart-phone to their wrist, when they already have one in their pockets.
I don't think that Apple will release a wrist device until there is a good use case for it and curved glass is inexpensive enough to produce in large quantities.
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#7This smells like a flop to me.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There isn't anything about any smart-watch that would have me wanting to get one. Apple's is going to be equally useless. The ridiculous part is the price-point. People who spend $300 on a watch, want something that looks nice. They don't want to spend $300 to strap a smart-phone to their wrist, when they already have one in their pockets.
I don't think that Apple will release a wrist device until there is a good use case for it and curved glass is inexpensive enough to produce in large quantities.
Here's the problem though, a smartphone is a computer, there simply isn't anything that you can't program it to do, so at best, the smart-watch is going to replicate the functionality of a device that we already own.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
There isn't anything about any smart-watch that would have me wanting to get one. Apple's is going to be equally useless. The ridiculous part is the price-point. People who spend $300 on a watch, want something that looks nice. They don't want to spend $300 to strap a smart-phone to their wrist, when they already have one in their pockets.
I'm glad I wasn't the only feeling this. It seems almost a foregone conclusion to tech "pundits" that watches are going to be the salvation for Apple's iPhone fatigue. I just don't get it, the biggest use case is usually "your smart phone is in your pocket, now you won't have to get it out". The only time my smartphone is't already visible is when I am walking or eating dinner (and most of my friends continue to put…
Until some wearable device can actually replace a smartphone instead of complement it, I think you're right. Not many people want to carry yet another device, so you've got to have a pretty awesome and broadly appealing use case to convince them to do so. I just don't see it with the Gear (or the Glass for that matter).
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#10There really isn't anything here that would have me wanting to get one. I feel this is a preemptive me too device with no real product vision. Well, other than "we really need to get a watch out before Apple so we can say they copied us".
No kidding. Completely uninspiring.
And, I'm thinking, do we really need to take a step backwards again with the camera? Smartphones are really just now catching up in photo quality where cameras were years ago (relatively speaking). Do we really need to go back to 1.9 megapixels, just to say we have a camera strapped to our wrists?
Across the board, it just seems like an unnecessary, underpowered smartphone duplicate, when smartphones are already comfortable for most.
The fitness application is the biggest I see for the watch, and of course, better dedicated watches already exist for that.
Pass.