Is The Smartwatch A Mobile Phone Killer?

As the smart-watch and AI (think Google Assistant and Siri) intersect, more people will adopt smart-watches. The ability to interact accurately only with our voice will be the crucial element to this. Once I can have a full SMS exchange solely via voice, the need to lug around a cell phone will whither. Now, is the smart-watch a cell-phone killer? I hate that construct ” ____-killer”. Much like the idea of a laptop being a desktop killer. And, of course, all these cellphone elements being “iPhone killers”. Anyway, in this situation, no. Cell phones won’t be killed by smartwatches. I don’t foresee games becoming really fun on a watch. Maybe with some sort of integration with a Google-Glass-esque device. Maybe. The phone’s current centralness to our personal communication system, I expect, will migrate. I see the watch to take that role. Possibly with the watch being the central device, and everything else connecting through it. What do you think? How far off-base do you think I am? Or am I a true oracle, prescient to the point of prophecy?