This guy is making one bold prediction, that a wear alone smartwatch that doesnt need a smartphone to connect to will cannilbalize 70% of the smartphone market??? 70%?? maybe 7%, but not 70%, so basically were all going to go from 5"-6" inch screen smartphones to wearing a watch? unless this watch can push out a 24" hologram straight in front of your face then maybe yes, but to think a 1.4" screen on a watch is going to replace a smartphone isnt going to happen...you can see sales of large screened smartphones jumping through the roof the last 4-5 years, even with these new smartwatches on the market I rarely see anyone with them even thought apple claims they are selling millions of them..... 'Wear Alone' Smartwatches Will Cannibalize 70% Of The Smartphone Market http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrews...arket/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix
I have a hard time reading the freaking smartphones with my poor eyesight, wtf am I gonna do with a small screen on my wrist? Perhaps as I get older, it will remind me of when to wipe my butt by vibrating on my wrist.
I would wear a watch. i lsot my phones several times now this year and I only need it to text and call.
I could see this happening only if voice recognition became very reliable. As it is right now, I'd never trust sending an email or text unless I could easily see it and modify it. I don't know if its just me, but I find SIRI on my iPhone to be utterly useless. If it reached a point where we could accurately talk into a microphone bluetoothed to a wearable, and listen to texts or emails, this might actually be possible. However, even at that, there are certain applications that could never comfortably fit on a wearable. The applications also would need to become more intelligent. When I pay at Starbucks with my iPhone, its a pain in the neck that I need to load the application each time. It would be nice if the scanner could identify the Starbucks application and load it automatically on my phone, or wearable.
Even if voice recognition was a 1000% perfect it still wouldn't matter....people still want to take pictures of their food, they want to take a selfie every 8 mins to post to instagram, they want to have access to their social networking feeds so they can check in on foursquare to show people where they are and what their doing at all times and see their face book likes on big shiny iphones, they want that digital qwerty keyboard so they can send quick Snapchat responses and sexy pictures to their other girlfriends and boyfriends and they need the big screen to choose which Tinder date their going on next..you can't see much on a square 1" digital box..its not even 2K yet..how the hell could they even consider that breakthrough... We need at least 16K on those watches before you can even consider it a good product..this isn't 2014..... so there is no way posssssible this works where a watch takes over the use of a smartphone...
I think you are the only person that uses the pay by phone...I hardly see anyone using their phone to make a transaction at stores....either cash or credit card. I can take out my credit card just as quick as one can take out their smartphone except I have to slide my card at the machine where you on the other hand just wave it like a magical wand.
This actually just very recently became available in the "wallet" application. However you still need to open the "wallet" and select the pass. If wallet had a single barcode recognized by all scanners that would search for the relevant pass, that would be best. I don't want to have to fuss around with my iPhone or wearable. I just want to be scanned.
I see it all the time here in Ottawa, Canada. I'd say about 20% of customers use it. Second cup as well. However, not widly used for other stores given that the apps aren't available yet. Sorry, I've been in these places ALOT over the last three months given that they have become my "office" until December.