In article , Mayayana
wrote:

I have no doubt that the fitness gadget craze
will be short-lived, simply because it's a business
model looking for a purpose.

you are as usual, wrong.

didn't you call smartphones a fad? got that one wrong too.

Remember Bill Gates
and his SPOT watch? He wanted to sell you more
stuff and track you at the same time. He wanted you
to live in a Microsoft world. The only problem was
that his watch served no purpose. He kept talking
about getting sports scores and stock quotes "on
the go". It was just silly.

the spot watch was *very* different than a smar****ch of today. it was
a one-way device using a microsoft proprietary network that sat on top
of fm radio and could only receive data. it also wasn't in all cities
because microsoft had to sign agreements to transmit the data. its
business model was a yearly subscription. users don't want that.

smar****ches of today are currently an extension of a smartphone and
without an additional recurring cost. users can choose from among
several thousand apps (apple watch or android wear) for whatever
information or functionality they want. the screen is smaller so it
won't entirely replace a smartphone but for some tasks, a larger screen
is not needed.

Of course, Apple fans will
buy silly, but even they have limits.

of course, you continue with your ignorant apple-bashing (which
apparently has no limit).

here's a clue: it isn't just apple.

android users are buying android wear watches and then there's pebble
which works on either ios or android as well as fitness bands which
sync with a computer.