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It's possible that the arrival of a firm like Apple into wearables with its watch validates the space, just as Apple validated smart phones eight years ago. Sure, smartphones existed before, but no-one thought they were much cop. Since then, everyone up to and including John the Baptist has plunged into the market and there's …

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  1. P. Lee

    No-one is mentioning the form-factor.

    Its truly awful for a computing display device more complicated than telling the time.

    Ok, you might get the fitness/heart rate gang, maybe the stock tickers too, but its mostly good for output only, and even then, a hi-res display just sucks a lot of power that simply isn't plentiful enough.

    A classic analogue watch with perhaps a bit of bluetooth alarm-ery built in could work. A wrist-sized computing device is going to be (to put it kindly) ahead of its time.

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  2. Mark 85

    It goes back to "what's a watch do"? After it tells you time and maybe temperature, day of the week, maybe an alarm function what's next. Ok, this one let's you be Dick Tracy or a Secret Service wannabee talking into your wrist. It does some heart monitoring. After that.... we don't know since there's been no real "killer app". Big data may determine that app but for everything else, pretty much your phone can do it.

    Ok.. Siri is a different critter as well as real-time info on things around your location. But that's really a job for the smartphone with a bigger screen. Or maybe something similar to Google Glass.

    Until that killer app comes around, this watch is just a piece of eyewash. The trick will be finding that killer app AND some functionality (communication method) that will unlock the potential of big data, etc. without needing the smartphone as a go-between.

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