Look out Apple and Samsung.

[Jakensama]

Dunno where you got that idea. The 5S will be exactly the same display size as the 5. The 5 was bigger than the previous iPhones - is that what you meant? The 5 had a 4" screen, compared to the 3.5" screen in all the others. But it was still thinner and lighter than the 4S.

Sorry, thought 5 was 3.5 - but they are not going smaller screens anymore - bigger is better as far as that is concerned in many people's eyes (up to a threshold), hence them having larger offerings now. Great, go thinner and lighter, that has nothing to do with my complaint against a watch - which is that the screen is uselessly tiny.

As for the "superior competition", it constantly makes me laugh to see bigger screen sizes referred to as "innovation". Seriously?

Don't know if its serious, I never referred to it as "innovation." Little any of these companies do is "innovation", most of it is "marketing."

I can see shrinking something, while making it have the same or better abilities, as innovation. I can see improving the resolution on a screen as innovation (e.g retina).

Or in the case of the ipad mini, having worse resolution than the competition for more money - how innovative!

But using the FitBit made me realize the benefit of biometrics, or more importantly, connected biometrics. The FitBit tracks how many steps you've made each day, how many floors you've climbed, how long you slept, etc. I couldn't really care about any of that just to look at it, but it puts it all online, and you can link to other people's and view leaderboards, etc. I'm pretty competitive (and I'm guessing since this a gaming board so is everyone else), and making sure I stayed ahead of my wife gave me a great incentive to exercise more. Until I lost it...

I highly doubt enough fatass Americans are going to be enthusiastic enough about competitive walking or sleeping to throw down money on some gimmicky thing like this.

If it is more convenient to use your phone as a timepiece rather than to bother with a watch like it is these days, I am unsure why exactly I should get excited about moving features from my phone onto some other thing I have to wear.

You saw Maul's quotes - even without the iWatch, there are expected to be millions of these smart watches sold for Android, Nokia, etc. So there will be plenty of people looking stupid, Apple fans or not.

Assuming they sell, I have an extraordinarily hard time seeing this catch on. But then again, people wear jean shorts and white socks and Ed Hardy t-shirts, so never underestimate the lack of taste of the general population, I suppose.