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Re:Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984 by defrost on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:51AM (#40974151)
The succint answer would be they were choked out of existence in the office market by IBM.

They had an early lead and captured word processing, IBM had big iron and expanded down to personal computers suitable for office word processing and had the big government | military | banking contracts to force through sweeter deals on the desktop range as a "one shop" solution for everything computing related.

Re:Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984 by Rinzler89 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:10AM (#40974238)
Does that mean the trademark is now free and I can start selling Wangs to people?
Re:Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984 by defrost on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:48AM (#40974401)
Hmm, dunno, we've got those in town: https://youtu.be/a64XBWtGuGc?t=43