So who wants an Apple Watch?
Mar 9, 2015, 2:35 pm
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I'm a big i-fan. But I was laughing so hard when I saw the prices for standard edition, my colleagues came over to find out what's busting my gut.
Apple must REALLY believe it can get anyone to buy anything for any amount...
Was planning to get one for my better half, but now I think it'll make more sense to get a nice Swiss automatic.
Apple must REALLY believe it can get anyone to buy anything for any amount...
Was planning to get one for my better half, but now I think it'll make more sense to get a nice Swiss automatic.
Mar 9, 2015, 2:37 pm
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This is your regular reminder that Apple is in the forefront of restricting your freedoms of what you can do with your computers ( for eg https://www.fsf.org/news/ibad_launch ) and as everything becomes a computer ( see a shocking list in Alan Cooper's Inmates Are Running the Asylum -- even warships ) that restricts your freedoms as well. Be very, very careful of buying a computer that doesn't let you run whatever you want.
Mar 9, 2015, 4:16 pm
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This is your regular reminder that Apple is in the forefront of restricting your freedoms of what you can do with your computers ( for eg https://www.fsf.org/news/ibad_launch ) and as everything becomes a computer ( see a shocking list in Alan Cooper's Inmates Are Running the Asylum -- even warships ) that restricts your freedoms as well. Be very, very careful of buying a computer that doesn't let you run whatever you want.
Mar 9, 2015, 4:44 pm
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I don't wear a watch. I use my phone for the time and everything else the Apple Watch can/will do.
Solution looking for a problem.
(Also - can you remember the first iPod. How do you think this years Apple Watch will look in 3 years time?)
Solution looking for a problem.
(Also - can you remember the first iPod. How do you think this years Apple Watch will look in 3 years time?)
Mar 9, 2015, 7:00 pm
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Yes. I haven't found a good way to summarize it yet. The best way to understand the problem is to listen to Cory Doctorow's speeches but people scoff at me when I link 40-50 minute talks. I will try to find a good writeup.
Does Douglas Rushikoff's book title help? "Program or be programmed" -- and then you get devices that you can not program, where does that leave you?
Does Douglas Rushikoff's book title help? "Program or be programmed" -- and then you get devices that you can not program, where does that leave you?
Mar 9, 2015, 7:24 pm
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Haters gonna hate. Nothing new. Big, bad, evil "fill in successful company, industry" is standard fodder.
I had a Fitbit, wore it for about a week, and stuck it in a drawer. I'll stick with my Swiss automatics and iPhone/Pad/Pod.
My daughter got a Pebble for Xmas - not sure she's ever worn it - she's fine with her 6.
Probably. Though I'm a bit more skeptical on the success of this one, after the initial wave.
I had a Fitbit, wore it for about a week, and stuck it in a drawer. I'll stick with my Swiss automatics and iPhone/Pad/Pod.
My daughter got a Pebble for Xmas - not sure she's ever worn it - she's fine with her 6.
Probably. Though I'm a bit more skeptical on the success of this one, after the initial wave.
Mar 9, 2015, 11:10 pm
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I'm getting back over $23,000 additional tax refund from the fed and state for acquiring two electric cars last year, so I'll "waste" a couple hundred of that on a watch that will let me play with the BMW i3 without taking my phone out.
The boarding passes and uber apps could be pretty useful. I'm sure there will eventually be a smart home app like Homewave that would let me play with my Vera and do all sorts of things.
The boarding passes and uber apps could be pretty useful. I'm sure there will eventually be a smart home app like Homewave that would let me play with my Vera and do all sorts of things.
