Will Apple Watch Wear Smartwatch Crown?

[christinebcw]

Edited out and moved to other thread...

 

[daekar]

Apparently it's no more waterproof than a phone... exposed speakers and microphone. I'll pass, no matter how many trendy designers had input on the casing.

 

[gadgety]

Aaannnd.... I still can't see a point in smart watches.

This is the main reason why the smartwatch segment won't see the same development pace that mobiles did. Less uptake means lower volume, while competition remains the same.

BTW I had a smartwatch back in 2009-11. Usage was addictive. Got one for my wife, as well. She never missed my calls after that. Now that my main phone is a Note 8, it makes even more sense because I only take out the phablet to do stuff other than talking. Now waiting for the Brago Dash in ear stereo headset.

 

[Pherule]

Three useful functions of a Smartwatch I can think of:

1. Tell the time (analog display please)
2. Show me my lastest unread Whatsapp message
3. Show me a 3-day weather forecast.

One negative function I can think of that will outweigh all else:

1. Radiation on my wrist. No thanks.

 

[christinebcw]

I want it to be a translator with voice-recognition - ANY speaker talks into The Hand, and out pops the appropriate translation. I had that on a Palm Pilot in the late '90s but it was limited to one speaker who 'voice-trained' it on words, and its translation library was less than my own! I wanted to plug in Polish or Mandarin or Thai or Basque, but nooooo... "library not available."

The watch-as-translator would be lessened then because of its size - if it could only offer readable-word translations, then the size of that display needs to be much larger than 4- or 8-characters' width.

Well, maybe that's iWatch II. Or III. Er, Ap-Ap-Apple Watch...