In article , Mayayana
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| didn't you call smartphones a fad? got that one wrong too.

I am surprised by the sheer ubiquity of cellphones.

you must be kidding.

why would anyone be surprised that cellphones would be so widespread?

And it's increasing quickly. (No ned to even call them
smartphones anymore. Nearly everyone with a phone
now has an iPhone or Android.) I regularly deal with
people who assume I have texting capability. (I don't.)

you're always behind the times.

There was a time when I thought things would
get back to normal once the phone addicts all walked
into trees or got run over. You know... Darwinian thinning
of the herd.

very few people do what you claim.

But now I think we'll probably just
change the laws to accomodate them. Already, now,
when I drive through Harvard Sq in Cambridge I feel
like I'm playing bumper cars with numerous people who
simply walk around gazing at their phone, without
any break in their step, even when they cross busy
intersections.

harvard square has always been like that, long before there were
cellphones.

it's also not just harvard square. try new york city.

The physical world is becoming sort of
a necessary evil for many people, as they live most
of the time in a mindset separate from their physical
presence.

nonsense.

But even given all of that..... I don't expect iWatches
to last. (Remember, Apple has had plenty of big failures
in the past.

very few and certainly not recently.

You can fool all of the AppleSeeds most
of the time, but they don't like PCs packaged as 8",
cracked acrylic cubes. And the fitness craze itself
is a very mutable, unstable phenomenon.)

once again, it's not just apple.

you are so full of hate you can't even see that many companies are
making wearables, and not just watches either.

they're also not all that cheap. tag heuer has announced a $1400
android wear watch coming later this year.