Watches are not a technology worth investing in. Every company in this garbage race has already admitted that making the watch is not the challenge. Getting people to buy a completely obsolete technology that is, in every way, over shadowed by 8 different devices in your life is.

They have all already said that their main competition is not competing companies, it is the fact that there is no logical reason to ever buy a watch in this day.

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I would never wear just one watch. I prefer my arms to weigh the same.

Perhaps it may vary on your location like many other fads do then. I know that where i'm located (Central U.S) I can't name any people who wear watches. However, I can name some older people (40+) who do wear watches. I'd never wear a watch my self.

i didnt wear watches simply because i didnt like how they felt on mah arms.

I am in the military, and that is the highest concentration of watch wearers I have ever encountered (we can almost justify owning them because we can get them cheap, and having a phone on you is often frowned upon where having a watch is not), and you're still only looking at maybe 5-10% of people owning a watch.

As far as civilian life goes, I cannot remember the last time I saw someone wearing a watch in Oklahoma, and I will admit that I saw a handful of people wearing watches in California, then back to no people in North Carolina.

Cell phones, tablets, netbooks, MP3 players, ebook readers, etc... all of them come in compact packages and have all of the functionality that these watches will offer, plus much more. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this "race" is simply the product of technology companies headed by men in their late for forties to early sixties having no idea what the average 20-30 year old wants, so they are turning their resources towards useless bullshit that will never achieve a large enough audience to catch on.

i dun even have a smart phone or anything like that or iphone, i use err, tracphone or similer shitty devices cuz #yolo

The technology is unimpressive, and gimmicky. All projected sales so far have been low as fuck for every single company trying to bring one of these to market. You're talking about smaller screens which inherently give less functionality, smaller cases which will only allow for smaller less impressive components, and thus less impressive power and performance, not to mention most of the companies developing these right now are not in fact developing them as stand alone devices, they are mostly being announced as auxiliary devices to interface with your... you guessed it; Smartphone.

As for the only positive thing it brings to the table (smaller more manageable size), think about how many people you know right now that are rocking an Ipod Shuffle as opposed to an Itouch or Iphone, both have fully functional touchscreens and fill generally the same role, but the average consumer has already decided, larger interfaces and increased functionality are vastly preferred. These things are destined to flop, and there is no reason to think otherwise.

Even then, good luck marketing the item successfully with such a low resolution. It will fill a niche market for people interested in them, but it will never reach the mainstream on levels that smartphones have. In addition to that, the omate will have to contend with being typecast into the roles that the major tech companies put theirs in because they simply won't have the advertising power to escape that.