Are there enough pageviews for continued Galaxy Gear coverage online?

Here’s a fun game to play over the next few days. Watch the news websites and tech blogs and see how many articles about the Samsung Galaxy Gear are posted. Looking at web traffic numbers on some stories in the first 24 hours, it doesn’t look like the announcement of the Galaxy Gear has created any significant public enthusiasm. If it has, websites are going to keep finding angles to write about the watch.

Right now? It’s a sea of ‘Samsung were too early’, ‘This looks silly’, ‘They really want to lock-in users’, and ‘Why?’ stories. That’s fine for today, because journalists who penciled in ‘launch’ and ‘follow up’ articles in their diary need to find something. But when an Apple device launches, there’s always a good few days of productive page views to chase. I don’t see the same lust for the Galaxy Gear in the log files.

Which is not a good sign if you are Samsung.