[goldfeld]

No one needs an iPhone as a dedicated cellphone either (surely you can get any other low end device, and Androids sync to Google out of the box.)

Moreover, the name 'watch' isn't misleading in that it's kept highly relevant to all you described. You have a little device "on watch" for all the info you need, at a glance's notice. By itself, "watch" doesn't imply time, so I don't see your point in as much as usage of words evolve organically and don't need to perfectly describe their job.

[jws]

Ah, a little blindspot on my part from that word. I don't associate the verb form of "watch" with the timekeeping noun form "watch" in any way.¹ Wikipedia guesses at the origin of the timekeeping device "watch" name as a corruption of an Old English word for watchman, or inherited from the concept of a naval duty shift, "watch".

I have no intention of "watching" my device. If we are going to repurpose an existing word, let's call it a "glance", though that ignores the command giving aspect. I propose we call these little information tabs "glance-and-pokes"².

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¹ I feel sorry for anyone learning English, who will come to visit, be met at the airport after a long flight, stressed to finally try his English in America, and be asked by his new American counterpart: "Djeetchet?"

² There is a long standing corporate policy preventing me, explicitly me, from naming any customer facing entity which I create. I admit it is well founded. I've learned to ensure my project names can be easily replaced without renaming files and too many internal variables.