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Consider an Apple Watch, because it will supported for some years.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I'm not convinced first generation watches wont struggle to be able to run the latest apps in a couple of years though, rendering them obsolete. Happy to be proved wrong, time will tell.
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"time will tell"
YES! You will be left with a very expensive SmartWatch that should AT LEAST be able to run an app that will tell you the date and time. Or that would be truly sad 
I need a 32 bit unsigned value just to hold the number of coding WTF I see in a day …
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I have a lot on my plate as "things to do after work" and SmartWatch dev is way down the list.
Although I'm planning to get the new Pebble Time and I might play with it a bit... Next year 
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I invested in a Samsung Gear Live late last year so I could build & test Android Wear apps.
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Did you share that experience somewhere?
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The battery life is too short, and the screen too small.
I can see a use, but as a mainstream device I think it'll have to mature a little before it gets widely adopted.
Kinda in the same position mobile phones were when first came out: "look at that idiot" was the general reaction, until they became smaller, longer lasting and more accessible.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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With smartphones getting bigger again with every generation I do feel like called idiots on the street idiots again for holding a tablet that can barely fit in ones hand to their faces.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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OriginalGriff wrote: "look at that idiot" was the general reaction
That is still my reaction, especially when I meet people who can't even walk around without their brain pacemaker in front of their faces anymore.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What are you gonna write by the way? I assume, if you try to consider these points in your mind, you can write a very great application, which is memory and battery efficient at the same time. You wrote applications for microcontollers, are they better than these watches (this is a serious question as I have no idea what microcontrollers might want me to be).
In my opinion, watch is to notify you about a short message, like "Bring a dozen eggs while on your way back" or probably a short message than this one. Or probably the health-o-meter like applications, "Walked 4 miles", "Sat for 20 minutes" etc. A smart watch is never to be a substitute for a home theater.
Old people are always gonna say the same.  You're not alone Griffin! You're not.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: You wrote applications for microcontollers, are they better than these watches
Different objects, different purposes.
But...I've written a few uController applications which run on batteries, and you have got to be really, really careful. Battery life is significant - and if you add too much processing, you can drastically shorten battery life. With embedded devices, that can mean the customer going to the competition...
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: watch is to notify you about a short message
The current crop of watches are gawd awful because they are not trying to do that: they are trying to be a a "whole phone" on your wrist - and that uses power, lots of it. Where is the point of a watch that won't last all day unless you are really careful what you do with it? People get annoyed enough with modern phones not holding a charge for long enough...
I think the market'll settle, and I think there will be a place for "watch apps" - but I suspect that since they still need a phone to do anything useful at the moment, you'd be better off running apps on the phone and using the watch as a dumb input device...we shall see!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I would agree on, "we shall see!".
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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