Wyze $20 Smart Watch
Smartwatches have fallen so far from their peak.<p>In 2015, Pebble had a watch that had:<p>- an app store, third party apps, third party watch faces, and a developer ecosystem<p>- always on screen that didn't require a button press or specific arm gesture, and worked in bright, normally lit conditions<p>- physical buttons instead of tiny buttons on a tiny screen barely larger than the finger pressing it<p>- week long battery life<p>Pebble was crushed by Fitbit, which didn't have any third party support, and by Apple, which had miserable battery life and relied on the connected phone to do most of its work.<p>Now Pebble is long gone, Fitbit bought the remnants of Pebble is being acquired by Google, Google itself doesn't seem to have any interest in WearOS, and Apple Watch almost has two-day battery life and app store has never lived up to expectations. We now have "smart watches" which basically combine basic phone notification API implementations, a package of often unreliable sensors, mostly-off touchscreens, and bundled "apps" which can only be used with the hugest social media sites.