New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

that blog post was otm

you don't need to sync everything will be in the cloud

yay cloud

ok sync = internet for the purposes of this argument

btw that was complete sarcasm, 100% of the stuff I work on for my job these days involves data sync services for an audience that has slow ass internet connections or even work disconnected

dropbox 4ever

if these iWatch reports are true feel like apple is really jumping the shark

it's really unclear to me whether or not wearables are just going to be a niche market or not

I will be looking forward to the markers report on wearables in 2013

http://missingbite.com/picts/tn.retrowatch.jpg

feels like apple had a meeting where they were like 'what other common conventional markets can we REINVENT. where can we INSTILL DESIRE INTO THE CONSUMER.' and somebody said watches and maybe it was aronud the time that kickstarter for the ipod nano wearable wristwatch thing was taking off. what a bad idea

like probably a lot of apple's success so far has been adding luxury or status-symbol value to markets where there previously was none? laptops, phones, desktop - get rid of that ugly biege garbage can, replace with this ultra sleek and expensive looking aluminium sex machine.

but I dunno if I see banker dudes leaving their patek phillipes at home so they can show off the iWatch.

thought I read that it could hold passwords for your apple devices, so you wouldn't have to type "bondage007shadesofgrey" all the time anymore

that functionality could be put right in the iphone and/or ipad too though

but I dunno if I see banker dudes leaving their patek phillipes at home so they can show off the iWatch.

― 乒乓, Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:39 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I aint a banker dude but no way am I ditching any of my Nixons for a lol iWatch

yeah but I guess it could add a layer of security, so that if someone stole your phone but didn't get your watch, then they couldn't access your data

fuck a watch obi

wonder if people looking at their watches all the time will be better or worse than people pulling out their phones and looking at them all the time

real talk

people being annoying in public needs disruption

I feel like I became part of the generation that screws around with multiple conversations at once what with the phones and everything

sending my email on your dancefloor

http://kfury.com/what-an-apple-watch-is-good-for

Did people feel as conspicuous and twattish using early mobile phones in public as people do using Siri? Because until that changes Siri is dead, basically.

maybe those 80s giant phones? but i'm happy enough using Siri alone

I don't think people look anymore twattish using Siri in public than e.g. texting in public

texting is silent, plus you can doing all sorts of stupid ass things imperceptibly; talking to an inanimate objects always looks insane

as much as a i love to say "computer; tea; earl grey"

using siri in public is particularly twattish because after asking a question there's always 10 seconds of silence followed by 'NO, FUCK'

second most egregious thing about siri is it still taking 10 secs even when you're asking it system-level qns like what's the time

word. especially compared to the Google search app, it's really sad

Do any PC makers come close to the Macbook Pro trackpad in use?

does the magic trackpad work with PCs?

word. especially compared to the Google search app, it's really sad

this. I've actually lost count of the number of times I've said something into siri and it's offered to search the web for 'cretaceous teaspoon'

or similar

were you looking for cretaceous teaspoon to cretaceous tblspoon conversions?

i saw a blog post recently (possibly one of the nerdy iphone dev blogs i read, but i have a horrible feeling it might have been gruber or sth) where the guy was saying the one thing that keeps him awake at night as someone who has invested his career in apple, and should be keeping apple awake at night, is the fact that they clearly have no one who understands sync

― caek, Friday, February 8, 2013 12:10 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://barebones.com/support/yojimbo/icloud.html

lol

it's too bad drew houston proved impervious to jobs' reality distortion field

I heard Jobs offered him something insulting like $100k

iCloud has been almost totally useless for me.

Dropbox is the centerpiece of my life, my bread and butter, how I do just about all my business and non-business. It is maybe the best thing that has ever happened to me.

when is google drive going to consume Dropbox I wonder

i don't think Google even wants to be in that business, their opinion is that local storage is dead and everything should live in the ... well, on their servers.

plus it's for-pay, has a tightly focused mission ... just not a cultural fit.

nah, Google is trying to compete w/ dropbox. They've got this whole thing where Google drive appears on your desktop and all your files are represented as physical files, but it's not that useful since all the google docs are of course just aliases to the website anyway. But it lets you drop other files into the folder and they upload like Dropbox.

but my logic was impeccable

yeah that post kind of confused me. google does think local storage is dead and wants your files on their servers, but google drive is their way of getting them there.

dropbox have a good chance of surviving because of their cross platform obsession, they reverse engineered the mac file system to get their shit to work there.

read somewhere that google fiber + google drive gives read/write speeds roughly equivalent to most HDDs, which makes their whole schtick a lot more reasonable. when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think.

but if yr on a regular stupid American connection, the dream is a ways off

Wow I just learned about google fiber and I now I want to move to Missouri/Kansas.

we were working with some contract developers in KC, but all the ones I talked to lived in areas that we're in the google fiber trial

can i haz gigabit download

when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think

reading from a hard drive is a bottleneck even in local computing, heavy duty processing operations rely more on memory/CPU. for example, the best way to improve performance on a machine is to load up on RAM and get rid of the swapfile (disk-based memory management).

the current issue with cloud computing is having complex software completely rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of a throughput technology that is still in a nascent stage.

SSDs

I love SSDs