I never said the same thing about cell phones as they were evolving. And really a cell phone didnt evolve into a smart phone. Calling it a phone now is pretty inaccurate, its just a pocket computer, that has phone software as one of its minor functions.
There are 2 huge draw backs to a 'smart watch' that make it anything but smart. One being the insanely tiny screen. Unless you want go to a 6 inch wide bracelet this will always be true. But if you want to go to a 6 inch wide bracelet, well then you are just strapping a smart phone on your wrist. Which i dont necessarily have a problem with, if you want to curve the display on a current smart phone and strap it to your wrist go for it. Its not my cup of tea, but im not necessarily against it.
The other problem that even strapping a smart phone to your wrist does not solve is limiting yourself to 1 hand interaction. Why would i ever want to downgrade from 2 hands to 1. Sure i dont have to hold it, but you are still limited to single handed input.
It needs to do something revolutionary to justify its existence. Just porting more and more pocket computer features over time onto a wrist computer doesnt cut it. Really they dont need to port anything, just curve the screen and add a strap, its nothing revolutionary.
Until it can project a display that you can interact with in a tactile manner, it makes very little sense. What im talking about is straight science fiction at this point. Sure we can project an image, and even interact with it, but there is no sense of touch. And without tactile sensation its never be all that useful. But something like that doesnt necessarily make sense as a watch, it would make more sense to be a wireless projector(with the device in your pocket, unless they can make it small enough to not need the extra piece in your pocket) you pin to your shirt for instance, so you could interact with 2 hands.
If anyone really wants a wrist computer tho, they can just strap their smart phones onto their wrists right now. Only thing you dont have is a curved display. But start the trend, and mabye they will start making them curved for you! If this sounds stupid....then you probably dont want a smart watch. If this sounds great, then you probably do.
At least something like google glass is trying to project information into your field of view, which is at least something new. The smart watches at this point are nothing novel, they are more of a joke then anything.
If they at least had a 1 month battery life they wouldn't be such a joke. But so far ive seen smart watches with 2 hours, or 8 hours, or 10 hours battery life, and thats beyond laughable for a watch. Highest ive seen so far is 48 hours if you dont actually use it....