Samsung Desperate To Prop Up their Failing Watch, Turns Santa Into Snake Oil Salesman

[onehandle]

Samsung's Watch Makes Google Glass Look Acceptable.

[baldguy]

1. Santa was created to be a corporate shill.

[Kurovski]

2. Santa sounds like he eats too much cheese.

[RoccoR5955]

3. This one is quite cheesy! n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

4. A watch phone?

CALLING DICK TRACY!!!

[LovingA2andMI]

5. Actually....

I like this commercial from a marketing perspective. But, still would not buy the watch....

[tomm2thumbs]

6. I wouldn't buy the first product out of the gate - battery life, features, etc are all lacking

It would be like buying the first DVD burner when it came out - thousands of dollars and 1x speed burning... if ya need it that bad right this minute, go have at it.

Just don't come crying to me.... etc etc

Santa should be ashamed of himself.

[Enrique]

7. speaking of snake oil

what is the hot Apple product this season?

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. An upgrade to their phone? The one that everyone has, or wants, just works, and people love, and...

and...

(No, I don't have Apple stock. (But I wish I had gotten it back in the day.)

[Xithras]

9. The Samsung watch only has three problems.

1. It's ugly
2. It's ugly
3. It's ugly

As my wife put it: "I don't dress like an idiot or a hipster, and I can't think of a single outfit that would go with." Since my wife owns a Note 3 and is squarely in their target demographic, it's a pretty damning statement.

Plus, as Jack in the Box has so perfectly pointed out recently, young people (who drive tech adoption) have never worn watches and generally regard it as an archaic accessory. It's a technology that really only appeals to retro hipsters and old people (meaning anyone over 40). And your typical millennial couldn't tell you who Max Smart, Dick Tracy, Michael Knight, or Inspector Gadget WERE without Googling it, so they don't have the cultural fascination with watch computers either.

I thought the concept was silly when people started talking about the Apple iWatch concept over a year ago, and it seems even dumber now that we actually have products like that for sale. I love technology, and am a huge fan of many of the newer interface concepts being developed today, but watch computers are just silly.