Apparently some vendors feel watches are the answer. I remain skeptical.
Personally my consumption habits are probably outlying: my last Macbook Pro's power connector broke... the machine itself was fine, but there's no easy way to repair it, so I bought a new max spec one in Paris (French azerty keyboard) to wait out the next hardware failure. This desktop, assembled from scratch in a Bangkok computer market, dates from around 2011 (Thai keyboard) and happily processes cluster computing simulations, HD video edits, high resolution photography and 3D games. I was totally phoneless for a year and a half until a few months ago, when I bought the Samsung S6 solely to take photos of my daughter while traveling (my SLR and lenses were too bulky to carry). I bought a cheap tablet (HTC?) for my mother in law last year, which sees some use. Here in China the cable TV system gives you video on demand without regard for intellectual property (kind of like Popcorn Time, but instant and pre-cached with a weird assortment of Asian movies in addition to blockbuster stuff) so nobody really does the Smart TV thing, though people use specific torrent-based apps like PPTV if they really want something obscure. Consoles are in my experience exceptionally rare.
Apparently some vendors feel watches are the answer. I remain skeptical.
Personally my consumption habits are probably outlying: my last Macbook Pro's power connector broke... the machine itself was fine, but there's no easy way to repair it, so I bought a new max spec one in Paris (French azerty keyboard) to wait out the next hardware failure. This desktop, assembled from scratch in a Bangkok computer market, dates from around 2011 (Thai keyboard) and happily processes cluster computing simulations, HD video edits, high resolution photography and 3D games. I was totally phoneless for a year and a half until a few months ago, when I bought the Samsung S6 solely to take photos of my daughter while traveling (my SLR and lenses were too bulky to carry). I bought a cheap tablet (HTC?) for my mother in law last year, which sees some use. Here in China the cable TV system gives you video on demand without regard for intellectual property (kind of like Popcorn Time, but instant and pre-cached with a weird assortment of Asian movies in addition to blockbuster stuff) so nobody really does the Smart TV thing, though people use specific torrent-based apps like PPTV if they really want something obscure. Consoles are in my experience exceptionally rare.