“There’s been much ado in the past year over wearable devices, as a proliferation of smartwatches and fitness trackers desperately try to win over consumers and prove they have staying power in the market,” Jeff Engel reports for Xconomy. “Yet even if most of them don’t last, these emerging technologies at least provide new gadgets for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to try out.”
“Wozniak still thinks that smartwatches won’t be truly useful until the screens get bigger,” Engel reports. “Samsung, Pebble, and Qualcomm are among the companies that have come out with smartwatches, but thus far, Wozniak’s favorite is one made by Martian. It doesn’t have a touch screen, but a tiny display below the watch hands indicates who is calling, and the watch has a good speaker, Wozniak said.”
Engel reports, “The worst smartwatch that Woz has tried? The Samsung Galaxy Gear. ‘That was the only technology I bought to experiment with that I threw out after half a day, sold it on eBay because it was so worthless and did so little that was convenient,’ Wozniak said. ‘You had to hold it up to your ear and stuff… ‘If 30 companies are doing the same thing, you know it’s wrong. When one company does one thing very strikingly different, and everybody says this company got it right, this is the way of the future. In the past, it’s been Apple a number of times—not always. So I’m really hoping that Apple’s the big breakthrough’ with wearables.”
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