A disclaimer: I’m not one of those huge fans of Apple and its products, though -paradoxically I know- I use at least three of them.  For my more serious computer related interests, ie writing and work, I use Windows based computer(s) and Microsoft Office.

I have an iPad which I find very enjoyable to use and a now discontinued iPod in my car to listen to music now and again.  I recently bought a new cell phone and, regretfully, I chose to get the iPhone 6.  While it is essentially a small version of the iPad from which you can call from, so far I’ve found the cell phone functions lacking.  Particularly, the quality of sound coming from the phone (or is it my tired, old ears?) is not all that great.

Anyway, one thing you can count on that tech companies like Apple and Samsung and Microsoft are desperate to do is find and exploit new and potentially lucrative technologies.  In more recent times, it seems there has been a great rush (although now it appears to have cooled down a little) toward developing a “tech watch”-type gadget.  Even as the first reports of such a gadget were released and the attempts to create interest in it were at their heights, I wasn’t all that impressed.  Cell phones, though a little bigger than a watch and not as “easy” to carry around as something strapped to your wrist, nonetheless aren’t all that much bigger or harder to carry around, either.

The big question is would I -or for that matter most people- be inclined to buy and use something with a screen as small as a wrist watch to do anything other than check the time?

Author David Goldman at CNN Money has some thoughts and predictions regarding the device, and they’re pretty negative.:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/04/technology/apple-watch-flop/index.html

I think the biggest problem outlined by Mr. Goldman that would hurt anyone’s desire to get the Apple Watch is the battery life.  Even if you don’t mind using its very small screen, the fact that the watch can only run for some 10 hours, not even a full day, is troublesome.

Perhaps one day a tech wristwatch will be developed that will truly eclipse the cell phone.  That day, I feel, is still a long way off.