"In their defense, if they don't work to protect their trademark, then everyone will be getting their murdered children DC's logos on their headstones..."
instead how I wrote it. Dropping two short words and swapping two others takes the black humor completely out of it...
Can we have a tech-person-rejecting-tech pissing contest?
I tell the time with a stick.
In all seriousness though, if you're salaried (so no punching a time clock), don't watch much television, and don't need to take scheduled mass-transit, then you probably don't need to know the time better than quarters of an hour, which can be guesstimated with decent precision based on the position of the sun.
You know what I'd want a smart-watch to do? Be a waterproof cell phone transceiver with basic 'dumb phone' functionality (SMS/MMS, contacts list, dialer) and with rudimentary notification capability, such as the ability to notify of calendar events, and to be a bluetooth hub for the headset, tablet, car connection, etc. That way I can still do basic communication when I don't feel like carrying around a two and a half inch by five inch block. I don't need it to be an e-reader, a map viewer, a shopping list editor (though it might be cool to view a list like a dumb phone can), or any of a whole host of functions that people expect their phone to do. Let the small tablet (or large tablet even) handle that, if I want.
This... this resonated with me a little. I took me back to last week when my Internet was down for 24 hours and I felt so helpless. All my devices useless. My iPad, my smartphone, my smart TV, my laptop... expensive decorations. All I had to occupy my time with was whatever was on OTA TV. It was like me and my brain were separated, since all my knowledge is on the other side of the router...
No non-Internet games or things to do on any of the devices? No non-computer hobbies? No going out to do something, even if it's something so mundane as going to a coffee shop to use their Internet connection?
I have things that I can do even if I'm without power, let alone without Internet connectivity.
Happiness is twin floppies.