I disagree that battery life is really the main issue. So do our phones, which everyone seems to get by with just fine. My watch gets through 2 days fine, it's

I disagree that battery life is really the main issue. So do our phones, which everyone seems to get by with just fine. My watch gets through 2 days fine, it's just habit now to put it on the charger at night. I agree that the problem is "enough utility", as not all the industry is dead: there are some niches where it is very much alive. Among runners and cyclists, Garmin dominates. (I estimate that would make up 25% of my social circle.) I would use my Apple Watch for fitness and outdoor activities far more often if the software/apps were better, as the hardware potential is just sitting there untapped. The other utility I find valuable in it is in notifications and call handoff, along with some utilities like stopwatch, timer and calculator. But these latter utilities have been available in electronic watches long before "smart" watches. And I would use Apple Pay every day if the stupid Australian banks supported it! IMHO the failure in smartwatches is that there's no killer app for the mass market, no actual problem that they solve.