If it had serious runner's GPS features and LTE (including all voice and data apps), it would be a great device, especially to pair with a real camera and a real laptop with pro features. But alas...
I'm tired of all-in-one's like the iPhone. For me, it's the worst of all worlds. Not big or powerful enough for productivity, too big to serve as an unobtrusive everyday communication device. My ideal tech world is totally reasonable and achievable - Jetson's style communication on your wrist (including secure financial transactions), with productivity on a 15" screen you can carry with you, but only when you need it. Photos? Best left to a real camera if, like me, you don't feel the need to constantly post your life for the world to follow.
Unfortunately, hardware vendors currently have little financial incentive to focus R&D on devices that can't serve you audio/video ads 24/7 on a screen big enough to view them, so this (totally achievable) tech scheme won't appear any time soon.
Apple, Inc. certainly is no Apple Computer. Jobs saw success in inventing useful technology. Cook only sees $ in enticing sheep to buy advertising equipment. It's great for the shareholders - not so much for the rest of us.
the irony of you criticizing the need for a better camera, and using "steve jobs" and how he ran apple, in the same post.
you do realize the whole "al in one" mentality started with steve jobs?
HE's the one who wanted to combine the iPod, a phone and a internet communicator on one wider screen.
the way he actually described it was basicly: Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a "widescreen iPod with touch controls"; a "revolutionary mobile phone"; and a "breakthrough Internet communicator".
He's the one that was pushing for better camera improvements throughout the life of the iPhone up until the 5s,
basically, this jetsons style lifestyle is the exact OPPOSITE of what Steve jobs wanted.
if it was what he wanted, he would have kept the iPod as the best MP3/music player, the Mac as the best internet communicator, and created the best stand alone Mobile device. not combined all three into a type of "All-in-one"
Hell look at the mac, This is a classic example to Steve Jobs genius(which directly contradicts what you want from life)
Taking the concept of the Screen and Desktop tower, and combining them into a All in one device( they even wanted to do this with a Mouse/touchpad and keyboard combo that never made it past the prototype and never was released)
while that type of future seems nice to you, its very clear that YOU alone are not the majority. and i think most people would agree. i personally like having a device i can pick up to do all these things in 1:
read a book.
check my work emails.
take a picture of my kids or family
watch a movie
listen to music
Check the daily visits for my various webpages
purchase the plane tickets for my business flight next week,
be able to having my digital boarding pass read for said flight, and not need to print it out.
print it out anyway, with a single tap, without even having to be at my house at the time
call my wife and check on the kids, since the youngest is going through day 2 of the flu
FaceTime with my wife while at the store, to confirm if this was the right item she needed me to grab for dinner.
get directions home with a step by step narration,
have my alarm go off to remind me to call my business partner since he should be waking up right about now(he's currently in japan on vacation)
be able to check the time in France to know when to expect the good morning text from our oldest daughter who's there on a school trip.
check the status of some of my fitness goals on my watch, like how many steps I've taken today and how active I've been, its my day off and it was "supposed" to be my lazy day for the week.
look up hotel prices for same previously mentioned business trip.
check the time, as I'm not running late for dinner.
check the traffic in the area and choose an alternate route.
get home and have a quick FaceTime with he wife and our aforementioned daughter on her trip,
take a nice photo of the dinner wife made and upload to social media being "that guy".
funny part is, in "your" future jetsons idea, i would need atlas 3-5 different electronic devices carried with me to eb able to do all of this (computer for work stuff, a separate GPS for driving/directions, a printer, an actual book or device who's Sole purpose it to read books, a phone, and a music player, a actual watch, and fitness watch/pedometer type device and lastly a tv to watch movies on)
now lets see, even if they were all modestly priced, having 4-6 devices like this, even assuming 50-100$ ea? this is easily well into the high hundreds of dollars(especially since the laptop, tv, and Stand alone GPS will all run you in the hundreds usually)
and id need a pretty large bag to carry them all around with me at the same time, or leave them all in my vehicle(which when you live in arizona and its 115 in july on a good day, thats not happening. temps in the vehicle can exceed 150 in the right conditions)
i can tell you right now, i certainly do NOT miss the days of carrying a Big old Letter carrier style bag on my shoulder filled with expensive Tech back in the 90's/00's.(camera, camcorder, laptop, walkman/portable cd player, garmin or magellan GPS in the car, which again you couldn't leave in your vehicle)
hell the only thing i find myself carryign around these days in my phone/watch/wallet and my laptop if its absolutely needed for work and I'm not going to or from my office, and with what I'm capable of doing with my phone now, even thats not needed as much.