"SmartWatches", believe me, this time next year, they'll be as big as ipads were in their first year.
Apple have started going around the patient and trademark offices around the world for 'iWatch', so I think we're looking at one coming out this year, probably around the november mark.

I was thinking about it last night and I scratched my arm. Suddenly I thought, this would be a wicked 'gesture' for a computer input.... an extention to the whole mouse/keyboard thing.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:36, 5 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Fiver says it flops, massively.
or never gets off the ground. it's a stupid idea for all the reasons listed last time we argued about this.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:45, Reply)

OK, it's a deal, £5.... starting from now?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:49, Reply)

It's just that the first one has already sold 85k
and two days before launching in an american national chain, BestBuy, its sold out before the doors are even open.
www.bestbuy.com/site/Pebble---Smart-Watch-for-Select-Apple%26%23174%3B-and-Android-Devices---Black/9713809.p?id=1219034546379&skuId=9713809&DCMP=rdr108901
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:51, Reply)

And they're selling for almost-to-way-ever double the retail price on Ebay
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xpebble+watch&_nkw=pebble+watch&_sacat=0&_from=R40
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:52, Reply)

Battery life and general durability are an issue.
If they've sorted that properly I'll get one.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:53, Reply)

I've not heard anything about durability on them yet.
The pebble has a week's life out of it, which is alright considering what you get. I think if they get 5 days or soo on a colour/touch-screen one, then that would be enough, aslong as you can charge it up quickly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:59, Reply)

it's shit.
hipsters will buy it for a while then it will die out.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:56, Reply)

I've objectively proven that its gotten off the ground and hasn't flopped.
Weather you like it or not is irrelevant, fiver please.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:00, Reply)

Selling 85,000 units to deluded hipsters, does not stop it being a flop.
16.8 million LaserDisc players were sold worldwide, Betamax held a 25% market share in 1981, both were and are flops. Hell, millions of Zunes were sold, this does not effect the fact that I have never seen one in the flesh and they are a joke compared to the iPod.

Now stop sucking the cock of a dead man.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:08, Reply)

You're more fun when the lithium runs out.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:12, Reply)

he really is
although he'll start some rant against little old me if i'm not careful
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:13, Reply)

Fuck you
hippy
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:15, Reply)

85k out of 85k, as fast as they can make them, is as fast as they sale. Doesn't matter what you think of the purchaser.
You've not seen one in the flesh because they're not in the UK yet and they're not on store shelves yet. Again, your personal perception is irrelivent; I don't like Tuna but that doesn't mean its shit.

LaserDisc and Betamax and had better rivel technologies and thats why they didn't survive. Not because "they were shit", it was because "there was something better out there".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:17, Reply)

if they made them in the style of C19th pocket watches ol' Foggeroonie here would be all over them

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:20, Reply)

As would I to be fair

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:23, Reply)

Accesorize ! Get a nice case for it

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:30, Reply)

I don't eaven bother with a watch any more, I just use my phone
it's about as quick to pull it out as to look at a watch.

reason #320 why this will fail.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:43, Reply)

reading comprehension dear boy.
85k is 85k if that's all they ever sell it's a flop, only time will tell if it is all they sell or if it goes on to be a massive (and unlikely) success.

I've not seen a Zune in the flesh, that's what that sentence was about, not go back and reread it properly.

my perception of the product is not coloured by the people who buy it, my perception of the people is coloured by the product. it's a silly product so people who buy it are silly, not silly people buy it so it's a silly product.

I never commented on the mechanism of the demise of the laserdisc, zune or betamax tape, I merely used them to show that you could sell more than 85k and still flop, but, if you want an example of something that died on it's arse, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA although I'll grant initial sales were not as fast as this.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:30, Reply)

The main fail for betamax was that the tape was not quite long enough to record a full basketball game
TRUFAX
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:38, Reply)

oh, and they are actually selling for a little over retail price on eBay:
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=pebble+watch&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:10, Reply)

Not rediculously far off it.
www.google.co.uk/search?q=150+dollars+in+gbp&oq=150+dollars+in+gbp&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62l2.3542j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:18, Reply)

OK, point
I missed that you gave one link in dollars and the other in pounds.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:35, Reply)

It sounds like the sort of thing 'Mance Rayder' would buy.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 10:53, Reply)

the main function of a watch is to look pretty or cool. depending on your gender.

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:06, Reply)

the main function of a watch is to tell you the time.
you pointless excrescence.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:39, Reply)

wearing one would make you look like a fucking prick
there is no way around that I'm afraid
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:12, Reply)

even though mine does it because i'm too lazy/retarded to turn it off
i hate "sent from my iphone/ipad"

however, one of my client surveyors has a whole new level.

"please excuse typos/spelling errors - sent from my iphone"

wtf. don't make fucking errors in a WORK EMAIL.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:15, Reply)

Pink popped-collar polo shirts with a jumper casually draped over the shoulders, mustard cords and boating shoes, however = cool as fuck.
Extra points for a pair of 'Oakleys' on the head, too.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:28, Reply)

*collects extra points*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:32, Reply)

would you buy an I-collostomybag if they made one?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 3 Jul 2013, 11:41, Reply)