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Top 5 reasons smartwatches don't sell (CNET Top 5)

2016-09-12
these are the top five reasons smartwatches don't sell there's a brand new Apple watch yay that sums up most people's responses to pretty much any SmartWatch the time has arrived to dive into the five at number five small screens how much functionality can you cram into a tiny screen let's look at what happened with phones shall we phone started out with tiny displays that grew and grew then smartphones got huge do people need huge wrist cuffs like Lila on Futurama not necessarily and that brings us to number four interfaces aren't there yet how do you interact with a watch a series of swipes risk gestures a bezel that turns to select things maybe you talk to it all of those are ways to use smart watches today and that's the problem there still isn't a great way to use these things at number 3 battery life the purpose of any watch is to tell you the time when you're concerned your SmartWatch could die on a daily basis the function of the watch part of the SmartWatch comes into question at number two they're pricey smartwatches suffer from high prices for several reasons first it's not cheap to put a touchscreen computer on a lightweight wrist wearable device secondly it costs money to make them look not cheap is there a magic price point for a SmartWatch where all the flaws can be overlooked maybe but there's still just one giant problem there's no killer app this is the simplest reason why smartwatches haven't taken off like smartphones smartwatches lack a true compelling reason to exist when the majority of the functions can be replicated by that other device that most people carry on them all the time their smartphone go check out more top 5s at top-5 Genet calm a Maya's act hard I'll see you online it's an average it
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