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Ask HN: What Will Replace Smartphones?
5 by pipeline_peak | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Smartphones were sort of obvious. We didn’t predict we’d all be using phones as primary devices per se, but it was obviously going to be some portable screen computer device. I can’t think of what will be next. We’ve all heard about wearable computers, VR/AR. Well the technologies here and nothing seems revolutionary. Smart watches are just smaller phones. People love to fantasize about wearable devices tracking bio information, doing away with checkups. We all know how the Theranos story went, you just can’t do it. VR is impractical, having to use parts of your body for what used to be at your finger tips is a step backwards. The amount of obscure gestures one would need to know, they might as well learn command line.