New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

not that i'd necessarily call it stupid myself

i thought the ipad was stupid once so

I wonder if the Kindle will ever see any sort of mass adoption. Maybe many years from now, some digital reading device will become popular, but I doubt it will be the Kindle.

I think devices like the iPhone will become *much* more popular over the next few years.

This new Apple tablet is probably not going to go mainstream tho: http://gizmodo.com/5323446/financial-times-confirms-apple-tablet-features-september-launch

― kshighway, Monday, July 27, 2009 11:20 AM

Totally stoked for an iWatch really.

I don't know how people are still giving the iWatch any credence. Why the fuck would they make an iWatch?

Apple Inc. has a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the company’s plans said.

The team, which has grown in the past year, includes managers, members of the marketing group, and software and hardware engineers who previously worked on the iPhone and iPad, said the people, who asked not to be named because the plans are private. The team’s size suggests Apple is beyond the experimentation phase in its development, said the people.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-12/apple-said-to-have-team-developing-wristwatch-computer.html

oh thx for that one actually, makes it seem plausible.

Still though, if they make this, they're not gonna call it an "iWatch", it's gonna be a small, wearable iPod.

buddy who visited apple campus told me "it's pretty obvious iwatch is happening" which makes me think everyone is walking around with comically oversized swatches to camouflage their test versions.

the u+k thing about the iwatch is not the iwatch itself but the insane amount of money and resources being poured into this thing

yeah nobody knows what it's gonna be called till they officially announce, but the iwatch is like apple's worst kept secret

I remember when the ipad was the itablet

also iwatch 100x less annoying than google goggles

updates as in platform or hardware?

― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both... iOS 7, prolly an iPhone 5s and ipad 5, tho the latter seems comically pointless or designed to anger ppl

i wonder if there's going to be a generational disconnect between the designers like ive, who are of an age where it is a natural thing to have watches on their wrists, and this generation, which is used to having watches dangling from a steampunk coat pocket chain.

people still use watches? even the kids?

^^^ This is key. I have major doubts that a strap-to-your-body media device is going to catch on.

I'm not interested in these and I installed OS X public beta and I wear a watch. Unless this looks basically nothing like i imagine this seems like something for the scoble/segway crowd.

if the iphone is mainly a phone then the iwatch will be mainly a watch

seriously 'i don't wear a watch' is not a reason to reject a rumoured digital bracelet out of hand

But the iPhone is not mainly a phone? It is that yr point?

Is 'I don't wear a bracelet' a good reason?

I can see something like a square iPhone/iPod Touch Mini that's similar enough to the old 6th gen iPod Nano. Wristband (sold separately!) might have some value-added like the "smart covers" of the iPad.

I'm feeling my age... sick of iWhatever talk. I just want to see a new Mac Pro.

well you're in luck then http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/tim-cook-something-really-great-coming-in-2013-for-pro-mac-users/

maybe

i just kind of grosses me out. like kitchy spywear. wheres my iphone adidas?

apple's gonna have a really hard time getting rich people to buy into this, watches are too much of a status symbol. i think i've made this point before. rich people much rather be seen wearing a patek philippe than an iwatch.

that's a good point, although the counterpoint is "are only rich people buying iPhones/iPads?"

well I think there's always been a trickle down effect, since apple products are so expensive

yeah but the Venn diagram of "ppl who can afford Apple products" and "ppl who buy insane status watches" isn't two equal, overlapping circles; it's like a dot inside a much larger circle

the more interesting question is probably "how many people wear watches who aren't insanely rich?" as hinted at upthread; if the general trend is not to wear a watch unless it conveys a certain level of status/privilege, what is Apple's plan to make this thing radiate the right type of status such that the market of ppl who can afford it but aren't already wearing ridic status watches want one?

no way, the whole point of iphone is that everyone can have the same one the rich kids have

and it's not like they're expensive compared to any other smartphones out there

xp

ya i doubt apple is worried about the 0.00001% of the population who wear $50,000 watches, and iphones were never a thing that got popular cuz only rich people used them

If you can afford an iphone, you're rich. at least you're richer than people on $20/month plans with no-name phones who really would rather have an iphone. That's pretty much all the status differential apple needs.

isn't it plausible that this is just the replacement for the nano? like, you could buy wristbands for the nano & different digital "clock faces" already. so now they'll just soup up the nano a bit more, & there's your iwatch. I dunno, I don't see them going bigger than that on this, because yeah, watches, woo hoo

my point was more that the type of person who wears watches these days is more likely to be the kind of person who does so as a status symbol, not as a utility

the iphone is diff than other apple products in that it's really 'affordable' [via carrier subsidies]

is it really that different price wise? I still totally feel the apple sticker shock with iphone same as any other apple product.

all the other top smartphones sell at the same $100/$200 pricepoint w/ contract

yeah the only time buying an iPhone really hurt was when I was replacing one I lost mid contract cycle

fortunately my pockets flow with paper, so *waves Roley in the sky*

it's true, the levels are pretty comparable these days. apple came down in phone prices in recent years (by devaluing older models) to compete

The competing phones are fancy too, though, no?

yeah... but i think there's real social pressure to have a good smartphone

i dunno if apple can manufacture desire to a smart watch out of whole cloth

like they did with the ipad

the iphone is diff than other apple products in that it's really 'affordable' [via carrier subsidies]

when you take into account the monthly bill though, and the fact that a non-top-of-the-line ipod touch is like three hundred bucks, then

or two hundred, rather.

people are used to paying $100 a month for their phone bill

since even a dumbphone without data, limited voice and text is like $50 a month

thank u based capitalism

people are used to paying $100 a month for their phone bill

― 乒乓, Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:03 AM

i'm pretty much proof that this isn't compeltely true

i do not have and have never had an iphone

I suspect if apple pulls through on just a more polished pebble-like watch, that would be enough of a "I didn't know I wanted that before but I want it now" thing

well markers we're talking about broad demographic trends here, not outliers