Microsoft says it's time to kill Smart Watches
BetaNews | at | by Mike
While SPOT devices were released to great fanfare four years ago, the company says it will stop selling new watches. Smart watches with the MSN Direct service have sold out, and the company has no intentions of producing new models. It says however, that it would continue to seek out new channels for the SPOT technology.
"We, along with our watch partners, do not have immediate plans to create a new version of the Smart Watch, as we are focused on other areas of our business," MSN Direct chief Jon Canan said in a statement. Canan added that feedback the company had received on the product would be incorporated into future devices, just not apparently in watch form.