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Re:Stupid Smart Stuff by jw2013 on Sunday March 09, 2014 @06:25PM (#7370264)
"If the watch was so smart, why didn't it tell me at 9 PM that it was low on energy and that I should put it on the charger overnight."

Not all people have the same sleeping pattern. While 9PM may be cool enough time to remind you to recharge the battery, it will be a disaster for other people. I think either of following will be a great feature to add: 1) auto-recognizing sleeping pattern of watch wearer (may be hard to implement); 2) just to add an option in system setting your usual sleep time.

Re:Stupid Smart Stuff by jdbernard on Sunday March 09, 2014 @10:31PM (#7371020)
Exactly. And there will always be this kind of mismatch between what the human wants and what the device can anticipate as long as the human is smarter than the device. Even among humans it takes years of learning social norms before we are able to anticipate each other with any degree of accuracy.

People always get upset at these "smart" devices, and decry their stupidity, and yet they wouldn't really do that much better of a job were they in the device's shoes, so to speak.

Re:Stupid Smart Stuff by eru on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:04AM (#7371241)
Your suggestions are good. But 21.00 would still work better for the vast majority of people than 4.30.