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By: Thom Holwerda
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600900">unclefester</a>.
<blockquote>This means that people feel compelled to do non-urgent tasks immediately </blockquote>
My work is not trivial. Thank you for considering my work to be trivial.
During business hours, yes, my clients expect me to be available. This has been that way for god knows how long - centuries, in fact. Even before phones, people expected shops and taverns and shit to be open during certain hours. This is no different. Again - you may be rich enough to not care about losing out on jobs, but I certainly am not.
<blockquote>Before mobile phones people would have called your home phone during business hours. </blockquote>
I don't have a home phone.
<blockquote>Napoleon Bonaparte used to wait 2-3 weeks before reading his mail because he knew that most problems would have sorted themselves out before he replied. </blockquote>
K.
By: unclefester
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600899">Thom Holwerda</a>.
I am simply making the point that mobile phones have created a totally <b>false sense of urgency</b>. This means that people feel compelled to do non-urgent tasks immediately. Before mobile phones people would have called your home phone during business hours. If you weren't there they would left a message on your answering machine or called back later. They certainly wouldn't expect you to be available 24/7.
Napoleon Bonaparte used to wait 2-3 weeks before reading his mail because he knew that most problems would have sorted themselves out before he replied.
The local car dealers have the salespeople's mobile numbers on display. What sane person rings up someone in the middle of the night to buy a car?
By: Thom Holwerda
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600891">unclefester</a>.
<blockquote> No one is going to die if you take a couple of hours (or days) to respond to an email. </blockquote>
No, but I will lose that specific job, which could mean hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of euros.
Again - I'm glad you are wealthy enough not to have to care about that.
By: unclefester
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600797">Thom Holwerda</a>.
People under 35 may be shocked to know that people had jobs, friends and families long before mobile phones existed. In fact we humans have managed perfectly well without them for around 2.5 million years.
We pre-mobile oldies did crazy things like planning ahead and making appointments just to cope. In some extreme cases we even relied on our memories to function.
I cannot see any legitimate reason why your clients need to be able to contact you at any time. You're an interpreter not the freaking POTUS or Head of Neurosurgery at a major hospital. No one is going to die if you take a couple of hours (or days) to respond to an email.
By: darknexus
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600820">jalnl</a>.
<blockquote>Interesting take, but that doesn't explain why movie playing isn't limited to tablets. The screens rather quickly got bigger, just not the phone screens. </blockquote>
Funny thing is, tablets generally got smaller. We went from the first really popular tablet, the iPad, to smaller android-based tablets to the point where even Apple made a smaller version despite their earlier assertions that they'd never do so. Unlike phones however, one can still pick their choice in tablet size if they want high-end hardware. These days if you want a flagship phone you're gonna get a giant screen whether you want it or not. They all seem to have converged into anywhere from 5-8 inches, with 9-inch tablets and smaller phones making up a smaller portion of the product line.
By: darknexus
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600820">jalnl</a>.
<blockquote>And really, are there that many people watching movies on their phone? </blockquote>
Unfortunately, yes. Many of them don't even have the common courtesy to use headphones while they do it. I've noticed it particularly among the teenage crowd in larger cities in the US. It used to be boomboxes, then music through their phone's tiny speaker, and now it's movies. Apparently it's not so common in Europe from what I've been told by my friends who live there, and I don't see nearly as much of it in Canada when I go there. No idea what the situation is anywhere else, but there are a lot of idiots in this country that do it.
By: MJ
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600821">jalnl</a>.
I guess was to late on my edit... I removed the homophobic bit. I was pissed and it was the wrong word.
Basically, I said the smartwatch has a nice design but... The "Michael Bastian" name plastered on the front, the back, and the wristband is ridiculous. This a very fashion looking type watch that will not appeal to most men (and not designed for woman at all). I am sure it may be popular with some successful gay men. Companies do market to certain demographics. It's doubtful this was HP's intent (they are known for stupid products decisions outside of printers) but never the less it's not a design that will appeal to most men.
<i>Edited 2014-12-03 15:01 UTC</i>
By: jalnl
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600819">MJ</a>.
<blockquote>Why is OSAlert homophobic? Why can't companies market to successful gay men like any other demographic? If this watch had a style that appealed to teen girls and I said so I suppose that comment would be Ok... </blockquote>
We can't really tell since your last comments were deleted, apparently. However, I wouldn't be surprised if your comments where homophobic instead, if they actually were removed.
By: jalnl
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600812">darknexus</a>.
<blockquote>the huge phones were easy to predict as soon as the small phones and portable media players gained the ability to watch commercial movies. It was only a matter of time before the screens got bigger and bigger. </blockquote>
Interesting take, but that doesn't explain why movie playing isn't limited to tablets. The screens rather quickly got bigger, just not the phone screens. And really, are there that many people watching movies on their phone?
By: MJ
Since my last two comments have been deleted...
Why can't companies market to successful gay men like any other demographic? If this watch had a style that appealed to teen girls and I said so I suppose that comment would be OK...
<i>Edited 2014-12-03 14:49 UTC</i>
By: Megol
An ugly motherf***er. And what is _smart_ about it?
By: darknexus
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600801">jalnl</a>.
<blockquote>"I can't wait to find out how this one pans out" - I can see a future where it's fashionable to wear *huge* watches on your wrist that are essentially small smart phones. For those that laugh at the idea, try to picture yourself 5 years ago, and someone predicting 6" 'phablets'. </blockquote>
Actually, much as I hate them, the huge phones were easy to predict as soon as the small phones and portable media players gained the ability to watch commercial movies. It was only a matter of time before the screens got bigger and bigger.
By: Carewolf
It doesn't need to do MUCH more than notifications. It would be great with a proper standard for notifications that any not so smart watch could implement, and the smarter watches could then add remote control for rejecting calls, controlling media player and similar stuff, plus optionally a microphone for voice control and some Dick Tracy style headset light functionality.
By: Vanders
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/28109/mb-chronowing-by-hewlett-packard-smartwatch-review/#comment-600804">javispedro</a>.
There does seem to be a truism developing that the "smarter" you try to make a smartwatch, the dumber it actually becomes.
By: javispedro
I personally divide smartwatches in two categories.
On one hand you have the "useful" smartwatches: the Metawatch, the M1, the Pebble, and this new HP one (which from the pictures looks like a rebranded Metawatch).
They have monochromatic, high-contrast, always-on LCD screens. Their functionality varies but they all support notifications, widgets, remove music control, and have 1-week battery life.
On the other hand you have the "useless"/"gimmicky" smartwaches. These include all the Samsung Gears, all current Android Wear ones, and the iWatch. They have high-resolution, low visibility color screens.
The screens are NOT always on so you need to make stupid gestures to actually look at the time.
They are backlighted which makes them painful to wear on e.g. cinemas or virtually any formal event.
They contain useless sensors such as ultraviolet (where even a week-old _forecast_ done by someone competent is usually more precise than what you'll get from the cheap sensor on the watch).
They use complex software which fails/crashes frequently.
Battery lifes are ridiculously small, and to top it off most of them are actually less featureful than, say, the Pebble.
<i>Edited 2014-12-03 11:25 UTC</i>