If it can be used and actuallly lasts 18 hours or so, it'll sell.

Post #394,433 by Another Scott 9/11/14 8:00:17 AM Reply	If it can be used and actuallly lasts 18 hours or so, it'll sell. I assume a big reason why it's not going to be available until next year is the battery life. Pulling it off and putting it on a charger every night isn't a big deal, if it's actually usable all day. But having to take it off during the day to charge it would be a huge issue and make it a tiny niche product. At least that's my take. The big knob is a good idea, if not exactly new. (from http://hecollectsdicktracy.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html ) If they were smart, they'd make a left-hand version, too. I'm not getting one, though. Maybe version 3 - we'll see. (I was kinda burned on a v1 iPad - it had far too little RAM to be useful for much of anything on the web.) Cheers, Scott.
Post #394,434 by malraux 9/11/14 8:05:05 AM Reply	Left vs. right is a setup task Just flip it over and tell the UI to be upside down. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #394,438 by Another Scott 9/11/14 8:20:51 AM Reply	Smart. Thanks.
Post #394,442 by pwhysall 9/11/14 8:38:11 AM Reply	And then the knob's in the wrong place Matron. Should have centred it.
Post #394,441 by pwhysall 9/11/14 8:37:42 AM Reply	it won't last 18 hours You can bet your life if it did, they'd be crowing from the rooftops about it. Oh, these things will sell, of that there is no doubt, but they'll sell to the minority demographic of nerds and Applefans. They're just not fit for purpose, any of them; a watch has to be a fire and forget thing. Between solar power and kinetic systems, watches run effectively forever. Any watch has to run for at least 24 hours If it's a fitness watch, it has to be able to go into the shower and into the pool. If it's an outdoorsy watch, it needs to work off the grid, all the time, and be robust. And at £350 and upwards (yeah, the $->£ conversion is a bitch), it needs to have a lifespan of more than two years, and I'm not at all convinced a device made to mobile phone standards will manage that. I've had this Omega (orange PO, fact fans!) for six years now and it's just as good now as it was when I bought it. It'll be just as good in ten or twenty years, too. It's not just that the current crop of smart watches don't tick all of these boxes, they don't tick any of them. They fit one use case - the urban hipster who doesn't work a particularly long day or has easy access to a charger, who has his phone with him all the time, and who doesn't want to do anything more than count his steps and get notifications of his email/tweets/whatever. And yes, it's going to be a "him". Bottom line: your wrist is a really dandy and convenient place to put a clock. It's a retarded place to put your phone.
Post #394,469 by scoenye 9/11/14 6:59:08 PM Reply	Ah, but that's not where the phone is You just carry your watch accessories in your pocket, like you would everything else.

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