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I don't understand the desire to isolate each wearable in such ways. We have in our pocket a computer which should always have order of magnitudes of processing power and storage, to which other wearables should be able to take advantage of! Think the old days of logging in to your powerful mainframe, but on the body(glasses watches, clothes bluetooth into your pocket computer.) So a lot less needs to be embedded int…
There isn't a scenario under which a company can convince me to frequently wear glasses. You couldn't pay me to do it, I hate the physical annoyance.
I have an alternative prediction: while the tech people predicting smart glasses or smart watches are the future, the smart phone will simply roll on dominating the 'smart' category, overwhelmingly. Five years from now, smart phones will still dominate, to such a degree it'll be viewed as a joke in hindsight that anybody thought smart watches or smart glasses would replace or even meaningfully compete with smart phones. This will befuddle all the experts, because they don't actually understand the larger consumer market.
I'm not a big Apple fan, but I believe the reason why the best consumer electronics company hasn't been in a rush to dive into smart watches or smart glasses, is because both are borderline irrelevant side markets and will remain so. It would have been like Apple feeling the need to dominate the LCD picture viewing device segment that was temporarily the 'thing' seven or eight years ago.
Another prediction: smart glasses will be useful enough beyond what smart phones offer, in about another decade, to justify some independent category success. In the meantime the failure of the category to catch sustainable consumer traction, is, again, going to astound the 'experts.'
I really think this will be the year of smart watches. Smart glasses look so absurd, I think this year there will be a number of options for glasses in market, but they won't gain popularity 2015-2016. Smart watches, however, don't look particularly different than normal watches, they aren't obtrusive to other people, etc. like glasses are. EDIT: Using words better.
I doubt there ever will be a Year of Smart Watches. They are too small (and too far to eyes) to provide a smart screen.
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You mean like 2013 was the year of the smart watch?
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I doubt there ever will be a Year of Smart Watches. They are too small (and too far to eyes) to provide a smart screen.
My thinking on it is that they'll become popular fast because as we become more connected to our phones, smart watches are a much less obtrusive and disrupting way to look at notifications. Basically, you can add a screening device onto your wrist that you can use when you're in meetings, driving, walking down the street, to quickly decide if it's worth pulling out your phone without making it obvious you're pulling…
I see smart glasses as the next tablet. Initially, no one wanted one, they did poorly, and early manufacturers scrapped their product lines. Now suddenly, they are indispensable.
I'm not saying it won't happen, but smart glasses are hugely different than any other smart device in how intrusive they are and how visible. If people want them soon everyone will, if not, they will die quickly.