> Similarly, the most exciting thing about the Apple Watch isn’t the device itself, but the new tech vistas that may be opened by the first mainstream wearable computer. On-body devices have obvious uses in health care and payments. As the tech analyst Tim Bajarin has written, Apple also seems to be pushing a vision of the Watch as a general-purpose remote control for the real world, a nearly bionic way to open your hotel room, board a plane, call up an Uber or otherwise have the physical world respond to your desires nearly automatically.
Sorry, but how does being able to open your hotel room or call an Uber from your watch, instead of your phone, some kind of new revolution? Are there people who enter their hotel rooms or hail an Uber so often (i.e. multiple times in a single hour, every day) that pulling out the phone is an action worth optimizing?
There's a lot of potential in near-field communication features...such as a hotel door unlocking as I walk past it. But that has nothing to do with a wearable device; that could be accomplished with a phone as it is.