Why smartwatches aren’t ready for prime time

I’ve given a lot of thought to smartwatches. Mostly due to the fact that I don’t own one yet.

It isn’t that I don’t want to own a smartwatch. It’s just that there are so many shortcomings and the vendor offerings are so immature at this stage of the game that unless you really enjoy being an early adopter, smartwatches are just too expensive for what functionality they deliver today.