I'm holding out for the bluetooth smartpen.
Posted on 03/09/2015 11:26:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I wouldn’t have that crap as a gift!
2 things i’m never without, my watch and my pen.
I could go my entire life without a phone!!!
What’s more the date of the change is arbitrary. It was shifted some years back (I suspect to do away with the extra Halloween Saturday ‘party hour’).
Gubmint talks, people march in step.
I prefer the extra hour of daylight in the evening. Keep it like this all the time. I hear that kids go to school ‘in the dark’. In the shortest days of winter, they STILL go to school in the dark. OR shift the hours of the school day. No sense in affecting EVERY timetable for someone waiting at a bus stop.
I wonder, is it waterproof? Or are the wearers only going to wash their right hands?
Perhaps you should go back further in the history of Apple.
Prior to Steve Jobs, Apple was mired in dysfunction, couldn't get a relevant product released and all sorts of other issues. So, Apple, without Steve Jobs, has NOT been the most successful company ever. Far from it. So, Apple has a lot to prove post-Jobs. This product is the first to be released under Cook.
In 2001, there were not "hundreds of Mp3 players. In fact, the early Ipod was one of the first. (http://gizmodo.com/5437243/mp3-players-in-the-year-2000-were-not-so-good-but-we-still-loved-them) At the time, I had a Archos Jukebox and after the ipod was announced, quickly moved to the original 30gb Ipod.
In 2007, there were not "hundreds" of smartphones. Apple CREATED that market. There were some early iterations of Android that could not even come close to competing with the smartphone Apple created. (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/24/smartphones-timeline).
Prior to the Ipad, very few were trying to make tablets. i had a version of a resistive touch screen using Android and it sucked. It wasn't usable. Again, I am the epitome of adoption at the bleeding edge. And I was one of the only techies I knew trying a tablet. There were Hundreds and thousands of computers, in different form factors at the time, but not Tablets. Apple CREATED the market. Apple also CHANGED how users interact with their computers in a massive way. I remember getting my first and second Ipads. Man - a game changer.
Now we come to the Apple Watch. Apple will sell a bunch. But, in wearables, there are literally thousands of competitors and options. At CES this year, I walked past hundreds of booths of manufacturers of wearables all with a different slant. Apple did not create this market. Their offering *seems* to be a "me too" offering and will count on the large number of iPhone users who want a watch in perfect sync. I don't blame those users at all and think they will sell a ton.
But this isn't a market mover product. Moreover, watches, unlike phones and computers, are a very personal decision. Unless you go back to Swatch, where you could make a plastic $30 watch unique, watches are personal and are not akin to mass adoption.
I also believe Tim Cook's Apple, while growing and profitable right now, still benefits from Steve Jobs. That will wear off more and more with each release. I think Apple is missing a massive market opportunity in tablet computers - where the Surface Pro and others have captured an important mix of full laptop capability but with touch screen, writing, etc. I cannot figure out why Apple didn't go after that space as they would have dominated from the user experience they brought to iPad's and macbooks.
So, I will happily hold on my posiiton that the Apple Watch is a "me too" offering that will be heralded by its sales in the first year but ultimately signal the first product released post-Jobs that didn't move a market.
Does that mean Apple sucks? Not in the least. But in this market, they are very vulnerable and that hasn't been the case since Apple Lisa.
I'm holding out for the bluetooth smartpen.
The reason why others (and myself) like Apple is because of it’s very strong ecosystem and inter-ties between products, having them work together so well. It’s not like you have different products, but that you have “one system” working “one way” and several products delivering that experience. That’s the “Power of Apple” as far as I can see, plus the fact of devliering quality products and products with the best user interface around. They all work together to make Apple the great success that it is.
I don’t BEGRUDGE Apple its success like I see a certain group of FReepers do on this Free Republic forum (the APPLE-HATER CULT and TROLL GROUP).
Those guys actually HATE that Apple gets better, gets more customers everyday, is a super success as a company ... and ... they also HATE APPLE’S ECOSYSTEM. You hear them say that they do NOT want to be “in Apple’s ecosystem” ... that is DEATH to them, and thus they try to force their viewpoint on others by jumping into threads that they actually HATE BEYOND BELIEF, and insist that all those people “talking it up” about Apple are either fools or idiots or stupid or misled or they believe false adverstising or they believe things that are not true according to them. They do this over and over again, on threads that have nothing to do with them and their choice of products.
It’s quite amazing and I do believe it’s a DISEASE with them! They truly need psychiatric help!
“IF” there is a market for it, you better believe that Apple will develop it and promote it and MAKE GOBS OF CASH with it.
If Apple doesn’t do that, then there isn’t a market for it. That’s the way it works with Apple.
Not everything that someone can WILDLY IMAGINE in the minutes between being asleep and awake ... is something for Apple to develop ... LOL ...
Does it play iTunes of U2?
LOL
The problem here on Free Republic is that there DOES EXIST a group ... that I call the “APPLE-HATER CULT” and “APPLE-HATER TROLLS”.
These Free Republic posters are few, but they have a PSYCHOLOGICAL DISEASE ... some kind of Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder ... in which they cannot resist going onto threads that they actually HATE THE COMPANY and the PRODUCTS and proceed to tell everyone there why they are idiots, they are stupid, they have been snookeered, or if they have money in Apple, that they are about to “lose their shirts” and that Apple is “going out of business” any day now, and they are the “evil empire” for putting together an “ecosystem” in which (according to them) everyone is TRAPPED INSIDE and cannot get out ... LOL ...
You can easily see who these posters are, as they are definitely Obsessive/Compulsive, in that they “come into” threads that they HATE and proceed to tell everyone else on that thread “how wrong they are”. Just look for THOSE TYPES ... and you’ve found the APPLE-HATER CULT GROUP MEMBER on Free Republic.
There are others who simply discuss something that they would like from Apple, but maybe Apple hasn’t done it for them, and they have one or two complaints about this or that. We’re not talking about them. We’re talking about the HARD-CORE and persisten APPLE-HATER CULT MEMBER on Free Republic.
There is a difference between the two ... and you can easily see WHO IT IS by reading the posts and see who fits that description and criticizes everyone who has Apple Products and anyone who likes Apple and anyone who thinks Apple develops excellent products.
Only IF you want it ... LOL ...
Was that showing “Iraq time”? ... :-) ...
I doubt that anyone will give it to you ... LOL ...
HOWEVER ... if there was ANYONE who was merely “considering” giving one to ‘dalereed’ ... please consider me as an ALTERNATE! ... :-) ...
In a more serious tone, actually I’d thought of such a device (and an eyeglass contraption with a ‘monitor’).
That was back in the mid 90s.
No patent. No prototype. Just an idea (some of which I sketched out) and didn’t bother to share with much of anyone.
The display addresses the issue of making something readable without having to have that glass panel (alternatively some people are working on fiberoptic cloth ‘screens’). The pen (wireless) also solves the clunky mouse input (you can write and draw with a pen/stick).
Some of these ideas are not unique, which is why others arrive at them (especially as new technologies in microsizing, processing power, etc. arise).
With the progress being made in brain technology (electronic eyesight to the blind), you may one day have something plugged into a port on your head and no ‘monitor/display’ at all (except maybe a simple status/error code).
U2 will give it to you first and then ask permission later.
Will the public be so forgiving if Apple had agreed to do this with a new album from Justin Bieber, Ke$ha, or Michael Bolton?
I do believe that’s the only hand that Muslms wash ... LOL ...
As for me, since I’m not a Muslim, I do wash both hands, and take a bath or shower ... :-) ... and ... I do intend to get one. But, it’s “on a list” right now and there’s some other Apple equipment coming first ... :-) ...
Just like the new iPhone the apple watch will have features that the Samsung watch has had for at least a year but apple and the media will act like it is new technology
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