<story><title>Smartwatch sales are tanking</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/smartwatch-sales-are-tanking/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choward</author><text>The biggest issue for me with the &amp;quot;smartwatch&amp;quot; is that they don&amp;#x27;t have feature parody with dumb watches. I&amp;#x27;ve had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought?&lt;p&gt;What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I&amp;#x27;m sleeping. I can&amp;#x27;t just wake up in the middle of the night an instantly know what the time is.&lt;p&gt;As a battery saving measure, the time isn&amp;#x27;t displayed until I turn my wrist and wait some obscene amount of time (around a second?). It also goes from being dark to being lit... so much for being discrete.&lt;p&gt;I wish they would stop calling these things &amp;quot;watches&amp;quot; just because they go on your wrist. I expect anything called a watch to have the features of a watch and be on my wrist pretty much all of the time. Call it a fitness tracker if it&amp;#x27;s not meant to be worn 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I&amp;#x27;ll revisit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcdiesel</author><text>The question is does this opinion comes from experience, or from assumption?&lt;p&gt;Having an Apple Watch now for about 6 months, I can say I love it, and none of those things (and I shared the same skepticism before buying one) have proven to be issues.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t tend to look at my watch when I sleep - so that one&amp;#x27;s easy, and when you charge the watch its in a mode that gives off a low-light time (nightstand mode, i think they call it).  On top of that, it takes about an hour to charge, so often I end up charging it during my night time regiment,  and by the time I go to bed, i COULD wear it (if i need to make sure I&amp;#x27;m up early for something, i wear it so i get the vibration)&lt;p&gt;If you want a traditional watch, then get a traditional watch - comparing it to a traditional watch and holding to the same standards is not a position of common sense...</text></comment>
<story><title>Smartwatch sales are tanking</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/smartwatch-sales-are-tanking/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choward</author><text>The biggest issue for me with the &amp;quot;smartwatch&amp;quot; is that they don&amp;#x27;t have feature parody with dumb watches. I&amp;#x27;ve had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought?&lt;p&gt;What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I&amp;#x27;m sleeping. I can&amp;#x27;t just wake up in the middle of the night an instantly know what the time is.&lt;p&gt;As a battery saving measure, the time isn&amp;#x27;t displayed until I turn my wrist and wait some obscene amount of time (around a second?). It also goes from being dark to being lit... so much for being discrete.&lt;p&gt;I wish they would stop calling these things &amp;quot;watches&amp;quot; just because they go on your wrist. I expect anything called a watch to have the features of a watch and be on my wrist pretty much all of the time. Call it a fitness tracker if it&amp;#x27;s not meant to be worn 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I&amp;#x27;ll revisit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>I would say that most smartwatches are indeed a parody of real watches.  They certainly do not have feature &lt;i&gt;parity&lt;/i&gt; with their traditional competitors.</text></comment>