If the Internet was made up of proper semantic tagging, and actual useful, machine parsable information, then yeah, sure, make a 'watch' that can answer your spoken queries with meaningful information. Unfortunately, the Internet is so far gone as far as easy information retrieval is concerned, that even the most simplest of queries needs significant backend development of APIs and data re-formatting.
Even if it were doable on a large-data scale your conversations with your watch would go like this:
User: Watch, When is the Guns'N'Roses concert on in London?
Watch: Hi, I'm about to tell you 'when is the Guns'N'Roses concert on in London',
but first here is an advert!
Watch: *LOUDLY* <jingle jingle jingle> (singing) When you get caught short,
don't be fraught, with BoneDryos.... Adult Diapers.....! <jingle jingle jingle>
Watch: The Guns'N'Roses concert in London is on...
<beep beep> Need Faster Broadband? say YES now! <beep beep>
... 16th of June 2017.
User: Watch, Great! I'll have two tickets please!
Watch: Hi, I'm about to buy you 'two tickets' for Gun'N'Roses Not In This Lifetime
Tour in London, at the London Stadium on the 16th June 2017 at 3pm but first,
here's a short promotion... <jingle jingle jing..
User: Oh, FFS...
:)
I'm curious, do you know of a credible projection on when this becomes viable?
To be fair, this event being far off underscores the author's argument. It's not yet time to abandon the iPhone sandcastle.
Why is this? Is it because of increased power requirements of 3g, 4g etc? Or all the extra useless processing devices do? (Ignoring the screen...)
My first phone was a siemens c30. Apparently the battery capacity was ~600mAh and gave >10 days standby where the Apple watch has ~200mAh and gives ~18h. So the c30 lasted over 3 times longer on the same charge?
Is it really unfeasible to expect us getting back to that same efficiency by cutting back in some areas?
The Gear S3 Frontier manages mobile connectivity and superior UX with a supposed 4. Day battery life
The real crux is I'm simply not going to pay my carrier another $5-20 subscription for another client device.
What you choose to label as ignorance others might call "making the choice that suits my needs". I mean, I don't even have cable/satellite TV and I've seen a Samsung ad. I can't imagine your average consumer has no idea of other offerings.
Same thing will likely apply here too.
The 4 day battery life (closer to 3 in practice) just about sums its benefits over the Apple Watch. Less features and not as well made, less applications available, and stuck with Tizen. Not so great connectivity options either.
As for the condescending "they don't know about other brands", well, I've followed Tizen development since forever, with Rasterman involved in it et all.
Yes, some day that will be feasible. At current power ratios, not soon, and believing otherwise betrays utter cluelessness.