indefensible: john gruber

doubt the hit rate is too high for either

yeah, but science fiction doesn't claim predictive powers, they just gloat when that happens to happen

i mean predicting the future is hard, making small improvements to existing technology in ways that actually help ppl is also hard but in the doing actual work sort of way

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/back-to-the-future-dusting-off-bill-gates-the-road-ahead/

Wallet PCs with the proper equipment will be able to tell you where you are anyplace on the face of the Earth. GPS receivers…will be built into many wallet PCs. The wallet PC will connect you to the information highway while you travel a real highway and tell you where you are. Its built-in speaker will be able to dictate directions to you to let you know that a freeway exit is coming up or that the next intersection has frequent accidents. It will monitor digital traffic reports and warn you that you’d better leave for the airport early or suggest an alternate route…

Some wallet PCs will be simple and elegant and offer only the essentials such as a small screen, a microphone, a secure way to transact business with digital money, and the capability to read or otherwise use basic information. Others will bristle with all kinds of gadgets, including cameras, scanners that will be able to read printed text or handwriting, and receivers with the global-positioning capability. Most will have a panic button for you to press when you need emergency help. Some models will include thermometers, barometers, altimeters, and heart-rate sensors. Prices will vary accordingly, but generally wallet PCs will be priced about the way cameras are today…

hey look bill g. basically outlined the iPhone and Apple Watch functionality in 1995, with the emphasis on all the wrong parts and no extensibility

the verges (only skimmed) seems to be trying to make the argument that its simultaneously bad and amazing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:06 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you catch the part where he acts like a dick to the person he's getting drinks with b/c he keeps checking the watch

lol no, classic

i love how one of the arguments for this device is that its "less intrusive"

if you have tried to use google maps when walking through an actual city that might be a thing, looking at your watch when it buzzes to see it says "turn right" instead of pulling out yr phone or holding it in front of you is a pretty big diff

not exactly a killer app

if it keeps you from getting hit by a taxi when you pull out yr phone it might be a... saviour app

the iwatch is my little angel

I should do another week test run of the pebble, it was one of those things where it was just on the verge of being useful enough to use all the time, but not quite there due to form factor

I have coworkers who are like the biggest nerds imaginable and they have those motorola smart watches and shit, I should see if they still use them

one of the weird things abt this is how its trying so hard to be fashion, like who is it for, obvs generally apples market is anyone who can afford their devices, but this idk

feel like johnny ive/apple is very much believing their own hype

need someone (steve job) to yell at them

tell them they are dumb and useless

I need a NERV mug so badly

i wonder if gruber and marco flirted remotely with their watches

http://i.imgur.com/jtJgigJ.png

How did he put it on his wrist

lol

The reviews seem to me to be dancing around saying it's basically too slow and too dumb and unlike the OG iPhone (which was also both) isn't quite compelling enough to make you put up with it until they sort it.

Going to be really interesting to see how this pans out.

john herrman is the best tech blog man going http://www.theawl.com/2015/04/an-asshole-theory-of-the-apple-watch

I feel like he is on to something

then again, the other thing about getting your phone out to check something pretty much guarantees you are either going to
- spend a few seconds retrieving it from your pocket and putting it back
- embark on a couple minutes of checking twitter or w/e because you already got your phone out

yeah kind of, i find it hard to believe that checking the watch is going to be appreciably faster/less intrusive than checking the phone. it's not too hard to quickly check a notification on your phone with some subtlety.

it's the decision to pause what you're doing and respond, or to go off and do something else on your phone, that is an avoidable behavior and also the behavior that is actually rude.

also i'm still dying at this verge tech bro who didn't know that repeatedly checking your watch is considered rude by, like, all of society

its like when google glass explorers were shocked that ppl didnt like having their picture taken w/o permission and blamed it on the fact that it was new technology

that is an avoidable behavior and also the behavior that is actually rude.

it's not, though! people will kind of glance and their phone and sometimes multiple people will kind of do that while conversing or floating in and out of conversation

I have only ever been called out on this once, and it was when I obviously thought a work meeting was boring as shit and I was reading twitter or w/e

u were tweeting "this meeting is boring as shit" and ur boss was reading ur tweet

the dude who mentioned that actually got laid off, although I like him as a coworker!

tbh an odd number of my nemeses were on the list of people laid off at the beginning of this year

good job taking them out

There is also one scenario where Apple Watch is far superior to my regular watches when checking the time: in the dark. Also, though it sounds trivial, I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.

wat

You’re flirting. Not through words. Not through speech. Physically flirting, by touch. And you’re not even in the same classroom. Maybe you don’t even go to the same school.

jesus

tbh an odd number of my nemeses were on the list of people laid off at the beginning of this year

― mh, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now you can check twitter on the clock with impunity

Does the Apple second hand do that continuous rotate thing

There is also one scenario where Apple Watch is far superior to my regular watches when checking the time: in the dark. Also, though it sounds trivial, I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.
wat

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 3:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait this is insane, he knows there are sweep second hands right?

sweep second hands generally do it by ticking 6 or 8 times a second, which makes them look smooth. Pure spring-driven sweep exists too, but it's pretty rare.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/585925773422264320

have they not heard of a... rolex

jeez why didn't the verge put their watch reviews editor on this

"I SAY TO-MAH-TO"

Of course you do.

saw a guy running in a daring fireball tee today he was a weird super fit old guy wearing running sandals

or at least running in sandals but i bet they r special running sandals

i have seen him tons of times before on the running loop but he was never wearing the tee

looked like these shits

http://i.imgur.com/JU91sRZ.jpg

Look at that silky thread

beautifully, unapologetically hooved

lmao nice