I guess you'll be first in line for google goggles when they come out?
New Apple gear.
the goggles might be a bit much.
I might "work from home" on thursday afternoon on vedder if your interested in getting your brap on bryan
hmmm…..
Big phones are fucking dumb small will be the next trend
This is the future
I guess you'll be first in line for google goggles when they come out?
I so want to watch TV when I'm driving.
Im stoked for the watch. I have been holding off buying a pebble untill apple came out with thiers.
I want to be able to see incoming messages on my wrist while im out riding or skiing. it will make "working from home" all the easier to be on the side of a mountain.
Garmin made that feature available a while ago. My fenix works with Apple or Android phones.
I'm "meh" on the phones, I've never understood people's willingness to pay such a premium for iPhones.
I'm also on the fence about the wearables trend. I think they will stick around, but watches and Google Glass are just the first iteration as they are form factors that people are familiar with. An entire generation has grown up not wearing watches, it's hard to imagine them all rushing out to spend $350 for one.
fwiw I bought an iphone 4 over three years ago and I haven't had a single problem with it. Battery life is a non-issue as I carry a power bank. I still have no issues downloading the latest OS upgrades.
Nobody I know who has gone android has had the same phone for as long as me or has had such a complete lack of problems of any kind with their phone. Features aren't everything, sometimes engineering and user experience counts for a lot. I also have an excessively bombproof case so that helps.
I'm "meh" on the phones, I've never understood people's willingness to pay such a premium for iPhones.
In a word? Execution. Apple has been "stealing" old ideas and then executing them really well for years. The famous Apple reality distortion field has always done a nice job of telling people how shiny and new things are, but really they've actually only created a few truly breakthrough things. In business strategy terms, they employ a Fast Second strategy that looks like a First Mover. And it is frustrating as hell to actual First Movers because they're so damn good at it…
Back in 2011 I got an Android Razor maxx. Cool phone with extended battery life. It was massive with the otter box, to the point I couldn't put it in my pocket. No complaints aside from that. Recently work got me a new iphone 5s. Even with the life case it is way smaller. Some of the apps work a lot better than the android versions but really the main improvement is the smaller size, the 4" screen seems to be a good tradeoff of usability and size. I would not want a larger iphone. Soon everyone will be carrying tablets.
Getting larger seems wrong to me. Maybe a flexible roll out screen is what we will see next.
Debate? Bikes are made for riding not pushing.
fwiw I bought an iphone 4 over three years ago and I haven't had a single problem with it. Battery life is a non-issue as I carry a power bank. I still have no issues downloading the latest OS upgrades.
Nobody I know who has gone android has had the same phone for as long as me or has had such a complete lack of problems of any kind with their phone. Features aren't everything, sometimes engineering and user experience counts for a lot. I also have an excessively bombproof case so that helps.
FWIW I bought a Nexus S almost 4 years ago and I haven't had a single problem with it. Battery life is a non-issue, as it doesn't drain the battery nearly as fast as my friends with iPhones. Plus the battery is removable and a replacement I got (when destroyed the battery with water damage) cost $6 online. I don't download latest OS, Google pushes them to me quietly in the background. I still have no problem with the latest OS upgrades.
Everybody I know who has gone android from their previous iphones have become permanent converts to Android and nobody has even considered going back. Packaging isn't everything, sometimes engineering and user experience counts for a lot.
:D:D:D
Android ftw….
but regarding the apple watch - here's a good point brought up:
"Battery life has been the key differentiation of the smart watches released to date. While devices like the Pebble and MetaWatch tend to last up to a week on a single charge, thanks to their black and white LCD displays, colour touchscreen smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Gear and Motorolas Moto 360 tend to run out of charge within a single day.
Apple's failure to address this issue in its announcement is therefore troubling. If the company had come up with some new innovative way of extending battery life, Tim Cook would surely have said so."
There was no mention of battery life for the watch. I doubt it will be more than a day. Probably the same with all the other watched announced last week, such as the Moto 360.
The larger of the new iPhones is bigger and heavier than Android devices with the same screen size.
The smaller one won't have much better battery life than the iPhone 5, which isn't good. Apple should have got that right.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
There was no mention of battery life for the watch. I doubt it will be more than a day.
Yeah. That is ridiculous. What good is a wristwatch than needs to be recharged every night? Mechanical watches that don't needed rewinding have existed for almost a century.
wont be a deal breaker for me. I charge my phone every night anyway.
Cook made a vague comment about "charging it every night" with a new induction / MagSafe charger.
As usual, Colbert is right on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaUnELYy2C0
Forum jump: