I bought Mr. Boy two wristwatches (trying to find one that suited him) before I decided to investigate his claim that his generation doesn’t wear them.
Sure enough, I’ve never seen one on a kid at his school the times I’ve been around and looking. Or at the grocery. Or anywhere else. But, like him, they carry phones which display the time whether there’s a call or not.
Darkwater says he saw a report that wristwatch sales are down 30 percent. Could be. Then he touts this successor to the plain-Jane timepiece and the pocket-filling phone.
Maybe. But I see two problems: one, Mr. B’s generation prefers texting to voice, for which they need a keyboard, and two they also need a larger screen than these wrist-size screens for the games they play when they’re not texting.
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