Let me go over the five reasons why I believe smart phones are going to fizzle rather than sizzle.
Fo-shizzle.

1. It's too late 
Gadgetry is evolving with every holiday season. Netbooks were all the rage in 2009, but they were bumped out by tablets in 2010. Gaming is also evolving quickly, and this means that Nintendo blew it back in September, when it added insult to injury by delaying Pokemon GO in Iran after hosing down its near-term financials.
I still don't think the Smart Phones Would've been a hit had it come to retailers before the 2016 holiday season, but how many gamers have $550 burning holes in their pockets in September.
You don't need a surplus of money to buy something recreational.
2. No one cares about Pokemon GO.
Pokemon manufacturers put plenty of weight behind GO this year, only to find that consumers really don't care.
The only real winners of GO have been leading smart phones and super-sized smart phones boosted sales for regular game consoles and regular Pokemon.. Outside of Apple, smart phones is a novelty.
Some may argue that smart phones have been slow to embrace GO because of the cumbersome specs, and that technology will make that point moot. If so, smart phones is sitting pretty as a controller-free system.
I don't buy it. Apple may have revolutionized the touch-based controller before Samsung and Somy hopped on board last year, but depth in a small screen is like a Lamborghini in a school's speed zone. Folks won't care.
Sure they will! It's GO' Without controllers. I can tell my grandchildren that it was just being pioneered in my childhood!
3. Toddlers are out 
Smart Phones has always appealed to the smallest of gamers, and the durable nature of iPads ' predecessors make it appealing for parents to hand over to entertainment-seeking toddlers.
Unfortunately, the iphone may be a health risk. The product's label warns that children under six shouldn't use the touch functionality. It may hamper their finger development. Adults are also advised to stop playing if they begin feeling dizzy.
Lovely.
News flash: You can turn off the phone and lock it.
4. The price is too high 
Consoles have shaved their prices sharply over the past couple of years, so the $550price point is a bit of a shock. How can it cost more than the revolutionary Wii and the evolutionary Xbox 360?
It's also more expensive than the entry-level Wii U and that's where I'm going next.
IT'S HAS CONTROLLERS.
Bah, it's clear you don't care.
5. Nintendo owns Apple.
"Nintendo 3DS is a category of one," Nintendo stateside chief Reggie Fils-Aime said in a statement last week. "The experience simply doesn't exist anywhere else."
Fils-Aime has had to eat his words before. He put down Apple last year, feeling that the success of Apple's App Store wasn't making a dent in Nintendo's handheld business.
And it is.
"It doesn't look like their platform is a viable profit platform for game development because so many of the games are free versus paid downloads," he told video game website Kotaku last April.
If that's the logic going into putting out a $250 machine that requires $40 games, he's going to miss the mark again.
Apple sold nearly 43 million devices running Apple's iOS this past quarter. He may be right in arguing that the App Store diversions aren't the full meals offered by Sony and Nintendo for their handheld systems, but the consumers appear perfectly fine to peck their way through Apple's free ad-supported or nearly free games.
The hole is greater than the sum.
We can't write off Apple entirely. It still has a major advantage over Microsoft and Sony in that its smart phones are proprietary franchises. Sure, that didn't help Sega in its waning hardware days, but Nintendo isn't going away if the 3DS fails to quickly move its initial shipment of 4 million units.
The rub for Apple is that the industry is changing. Sales have been sluggish for most of the past two years. All three of the largest publicly traded game developers are trading in the teens and pre-teens. Verizon shares were rocked this month, after the smart phone retailer posted disappointing sales.
Apple may believe that it's reinventing the Smart Phone market, but it's not raising the bar. It's too late to hit the market with a phone that parents won't buy for their young children and that older kids won't have time for given cheaper and readily available diversions.
What's next, Smart Phones?
Who says teenagers can't have both? who says teenagers want a smart phone? "Every t(w)een has an smart phone" is one of the stereotypes I hope to disprove with my website.
