Well that's certainly a step in the right direction for being more compatible. Frankly I wouldn't probably care about not having the bloatware since I don't particularly like the bloatware at all anyway. There's no question that you as a big guy can pass off the size of the S with ease. Me, if I wore it I'd look like I'm under constant surveillance perhaps as a prisoner under house arrest or something.
There is no question that as time moves forward we'll have greater choice but at the same time things will start to congeal more. I was just watching a series of personal transport device videos on Youtube, and my God, the variety in size, style, price, performance, speed, distance, charge time, agility, form factor, sitting, standing, one wheel, two, three, four, the list goes on and on. There will be a similar deflating or condensing of that wide variety of form factors and with it the creams of the crops in terms of each various feature or function will eventually begin to attract each other, join forces into devices and rise to the top. The Segway was the first, most amazing and certainly most well-thought out of all the devices in this genre of its time, so much so that it was THE device to own. Now, there must be hundreds of varieties.
So is the smart watch. First there was a few, limited in features and function, but effective in some. Then more ideas about how to blow this thing wide open. We're in the expansion phase of the smart watch space. It will get MUCH larger in the coming few years. Then, just like Android phones have, it will all begin to contract or compress and come back around to a common center, and with it will be the top performers, the top styles, the ones with the features and functions most desired, and we'll be down to several basic form factor designs, much like we are now with smart phones.
There will always be a few trying to push the bar higher and design blockbuster type new features and styles, such as the Edge from Samsung, and the Note with the Pen, but like anything, it will expand and contract as the ideas prove either more or less appealing, functional and therefor profitable.
I hope that Samsung, LG, Motorola, Huawei, Sony, and I'm sure there are plenty more I'm missing - will continue to push the boundaries and come up with new, dare I say "crazy" ideas for our futures. It's from those "crazy" ideas that come the greatest innovations. We are in an age of expansion in technology that is mind-blowing, and anyone who is alive in the timeframe from the first home computer to now and the next perhaps 20-30 years will likely have experienced the most incredible turning point in modern technology in perhaps all time, but certainly in the history as we know it.
I am excited to be in on the ground floor of this Android revolution, and going all the way back to the OGD, although I know it wasn't the FIRST Android phone, but certainly was the most influential in bringing the concept and function to market and gaining the momentum it needed to begin climbing the massive hill ahead of it. I am now just as excited to be a part of the Smart Watch revolution. I see even other possible new products that will shape and change our futures in such incredible ways. I only wish I could live a hundred more years to see things that today's science says are impossible become reality.
Anyway, forge on, Smart Watch manufacturers and Google, and...yeah, Apple too.
