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No Love From Ars For Samsung's New Smart Watch
Despite the number of companies shipping or promising them, smart watches aren't the easiest sell, and Ars Technica's review of Samsung's entry illustrates why. Despite all the processing power inside, the watch is "sluggish" even for the kind of at-a-glance convenience features that are touted as the reason to have a phone tethered to an (even smarter) phone, and for the most part seems to weakly imitate features already found on that phone. There are a few features called out as cool, like a media control app, but for the most part reviewer Rob Amadeo finds little compelling in the Galaxy Gear.
Don't mod me down... it's in TFA!
Its difficult to take anything seriously from Ars. They are unashamedly a pro Apple site. They have a dedicated Apple section(seriously they only make 5 products) , but no Android/Linux/Google One they actually closed there open source section. They outinely publish articles redefining "open"...meaning closed. Their latest discovery on benchmark *cough* optimising was to to call *all* manufacturers cheats...and Apple a saint??? It was insane. I am really interested in a smartwatch...and there are lots of options with great ideas, but Ars won't find any of them as good as the vapour-ware Apple product.