Samsung's watches reminded me of Steve Ballamer's conspicuous announcement of a Windows 7 HP tablet the week before the first iPad announcement: little more tha

Samsung's watches reminded me of Steve Ballamer's conspicuous announcement of a Windows 7 HP tablet the week before the first iPad announcement: little more than a sad, technologically and culturally inept attempt to buy relevance. Sure, there was a ridiculously outsized ad campaign to tout their innovation, but everyone knew that the OS it ran (Tizen) was dead in the water. Did anyone really believe that Samsung was building a wearables platform that wouldn't be quickly usurped by Google and Apple?