New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCZ-nJ7XdmE

The only watch I care about

"wearables" seem cool to me but I don't want to wear a watch, they make my wrists and they scratch my laptop because I rest my palms and elbows when I type. BUT I wear glasses, what was so bad about google glass? really I just want to be able to read something during a boring meeting without anyone knowing, or ideally play video games (do they follow my gaze to let me point and click?)

make my wrists *sweaty*

Serious thought: how about if Apple sold the stupid $17,000 version and pledged its entire price to charity? That way high profile idiots would be clamoring to have one, everyone would see them wearing it, it would advertise the dumb cheap(er) watch, and it would help people. A win all around.

Apple confirmed that all three editions of the Apple Watch will ship with 8GB of internal storage, according to 9to5Mac. Apple Watch users will be limited to up to 2GB of songs and up to 75MB of photos that are locally stored on the device and can be listened to or viewed without a paired iPhone.

Lol

I get that rich people will throw money at all sorts of crazy hooja-dooja's, but DJP's point still stands. Why would someone spend $17K on virtually the same kind of product that can be had for $500?

The reason TAG Heuer is such a luxury brand is because, to my knowledge, you can't buy the same watch with a nylon band for a cheaper price. They don't dumb down their brand name. It's a status symbol because only so many can afford the item at all.

But selling the same watch in a gold or an aluminum format - you're only going to get rich people who care if their amplifiers go to 11 or not. It doesn't tell the time any better, or unlike a Ferrari to a Corolla, go any faster.

Will their functionality go dead when they are ripped of my wrist?

Well, aside from the Hermes bag example I gave (in which the added "performance" value is zero), 95% of the "performance" in luxury goods is just disguised conspicuous consumption anyway.

Can you get a cheap Hermes bag at JCPenny? I'll be able to get one of these Apple Watches at Walmart.

You can get cheap Nikes at Walmart and spend 10-20x as much on limited edition Nikes. Keep arguing with capitalism about itself though.

When I was 11 I become obsessed with the idea of sending out my N64 to this company that would chrome plate it for like $250

I was gonna be the only kid in town with a chrome N64

That would have been sick

Why didn't I do that

wait was there actually a company that did that specific service?

You must not have known any gamers growing up

The N64 didn't come out until I was packing up to go to college.

It was a cool game system and there were some really good games for it

The 64 stood for 64-bit, which was how you played video games back then

http://blog.pricecharting.com/2014/04/stevesesy-foxdata-n64-controllers.html

Wait, there were game systems that had more than one bit?

Back then man we just had two games -- "Ball" and "Stick." And we didn't call ourselves gamers, man, we just played for the love.

When I was 11 I become obsessed with the idea of sending out my N64 to this company that would chrome plate it for like $250

― 龜, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck yeah

I walked by a car that was 100% murdered out when I was on vacation last year. It was the most amazing matte black paint job, completely impractical, and it was pretty sweet

why would someone have bought a N64 when they already had the far superior SNES

man it was boss when original Zelda came out because it was gold plated, made all other games look weak

yeah, my neighbor had the gold plated original for NES. it made me feel bad about my late console lifetime purchased grey cart version.

yeah I had the gold plated. It was like having the god game.

Well, aside from the Hermes bag example I gave (in which the added "performance" value is zero), 95% of the "performance" in luxury goods is just disguised conspicuous consumption anyway.

Yeah but it is disguised is the important bit. Even if they could Ferrari wouldn't make a version with cloth seats for a 20th of the price. With Apple it's pretty blatant: "the strap alone costs as much as an iMac why because you will pay it, mug"

Still, people bought the black MacBook and that was exactly the same deal.

hey off-topic but any of you have any luck selling an old iphone for a decent price? even one in somewhat poor shape? my in-laws gave us their at&t iphone 5 and we put it on craigslist but it is just sitting there as 15 new posts appear everyday selling old iphones

When my wife and I got 5S's a year and a half ago I sold both of our 4s using Glyde. It was super simple, we got $200 for each of them, and both sold within two days.

LOL at anyone surprised people will pay a lot of money for luxury goods. Especially from a company who has sold their brand's computers for way more than any competitors.

LOL at people who perpetually confuse/conflate "surprise" with "disdain"

LOL at anyone surprised by Adam's post. gosh DJP you sure are surprised a bunch today.

People seem to forget that Apple has always (or at least the past 20 years) marketed itself as the status symbol brand of consumer electronics, this is why I confuse disdain with surprise.

so you're incoherent because people forget something about how apple has not actually marketed itself. am i getting this right?

actually forget i asked

I'm surprised people always forget to be surprised by disdain of people.

great thread guys, keep it up!

go fuck yourself

No u

new york media writer has game-changing epiphany: maybe having the latest high-end gadget isn't strictly necessary

https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807

https://twitter.com/DevilleSy/status/575216718047481856

ambient caffeine sensor for sure

new york media writer has game-changing epiphany: maybe having the latest high-end gadget isn't strictly necessary

https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807🔗

I just listened to a planet money podcast earlier that talked about GoPro being the most shorted stock over a recent period of time. Some investor guy was talking about how all tech products inevitably become cheap low margin commodities like toasters after a couple years

Tech evolves in new and surprising ways. But I was talking to the Exec Director of a pro-bike/public transit/walking group about the levelling off of car ownership among young people, and he said that yeah, the numbers may indicate a trend, but then again, there is a theory that Americans have also simply maxed out on the amount of driving they do and can do on any given day. Maybe tech will and can plateau, too, at least for a time. Maybe we've simply maxed out on the things we need our doodads to do, and that is why Apple is desperate to release something, anything, that creates a need where one didn't exist. In this case they made the doodad before they established a need. No doubt they will spend much money trying to convince people there is a need. But certainly Google couldn't pull it off with their GTFO goggles. At least the Apple watch is more subtle.

Google glass failed because it was a big ugly nerdy thing that sits on your face all day. Apple watch will succeed because it is cool.

http://i.imgur.com/XzeKM57.jpg

Gonna cop on canal street instead

Can I get a Hello Kitty Apple watch?

Apple's press release that's been up since the first Apple Watch unveiling calls its 'digital crown' user interface ''Apple’s most revolutionary navigation tool since the iPod Click Wheel'' . It's a curiously feeble endorsement given that Apple will no longer sell you an iPod with that wonderfully intuitive click wheel, an open admission that Apple knows its watch's UI is already doomed to short-term obsolescence should a future touch screen get the job done cheaper.

http://www.maclife.com/files/u220903/ipod_click_wheel_200px.png

(either that or it's an acknowledgement that the Click Wheel was a better and more relevant user interface than Apple's willing to admit)

where would you put the click wheel on an iphone