New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I had a second generation iPod, but a lot of the alternatives weren't half bad. The difference being that the iPod was better interface-wise and they bought one of the best desktop audio organizers that worked with devices and made it incompatible with all others.

tbh they bought the firmware off the shelf from yet another company

that was all fine and pretty much best-of-breed at the beginning, but it was by far a design and marketing triumph over an actual from-the-roots product development success. probably someone is arguing that's the case for apple with post-return steve jobs, but it was more like a way to jump start their device sales outside the desktop

they started working on it in 2001 and had it out by the fall

didn't they eventually acquire the pixo os?

yeah, I believe so

but it was by far a design and marketing triumph over an actual from-the-roots product development success.

― a strange man (mh), Monday, April 14, 2014 9:46 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is such a terrible computer programmer thing to say u shd be ashamed

haha thank you, you are right

I am ashamed usually

fadell literally said something like "we handed the internals to jony to skin"

so yeah it seems like it was rushed. or at least done much faster than the iphone, which took two and a half years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html?pagewanted=all

iwatch leaked photos https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlO0p9tCMAACL5C.jpg

I bought a Basis B1 watch yesterday - it's kind of ugly but has all the usual Fitbit/Up features and a heart rate monitor. I guess we'll see how it goes.

If Apple could nail a fitness device that interacts with an iPhone (sans the dumber features of the Galaxy watch), it could be huge. Everyone wants to quantify their steps taken and blood sugar constantly etc etc.

i don't really see it, but I won't say it's impossible. as mentioned, the fitness calculators don't seem like a huge market to me (lol 'murica)

http://bytecollector.com/images/thumbs/hp-01_015_small.jpg

Everyone wants to quantify their steps taken and blood sugar constantly etc etc.

everyone but me, i guess?

It's fun

I'm at the point in my life where I need a machine to tell me to walk more. Therefore I like the new wave of designery infographic fitness apps that use the motion processor in the iPhone 5s. Much of them seem to be developer tech demos/app portfolios, but at least they subscribe to that do one thing well developer philosophy. Punch in my height, carry my phone around with me for a week, and then quantify exactly how much I've been promoting Sloth.

Feels like Nike has been trying to blow this market up for years (iirc Apple hired a guy away from Nike) like they have that dongle you put in your shoe and it surfs the web or something

Maybe it just needs the Apple touch to make it really successful

But it also feels like maybe Apple was looking around and seeing what other people in SF were doing

And it was a bunch of nerdy young white instant millionaires doing Crossfit and getting bodyfat scales and obsessively punching in calories consumed per day into their iPhone apps

And making shakes that remove the need to eat

And I dunno if that can extrapolate onto General America

I don't understand the blood sugar thing. Does it have a needle on the bottom and prick your skin hourly?

imo the metrics alone are a starting point and things are just finally getting to the point where the sensors work reliably and the devices are wearable without being dumb

actually doing useful things with the data is the big black hole. there are some neat apps now that try to pull things together, but I haven't seen any one that's awesome

blood sugar can be monitored with infrared detection, iirc, but I'm not sure how good it is right now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_glucose_monitoring#Non-invasive_technologies

This sucker is pretty cool, but I couldn't be bothered to input every time I have caffeine, which probably says a lot about my caffeine consumption and less about their application:
https://jawbone.com/up/coffee

I haven't used it for a few months but the feature on the jawbone band that'd wake you around the designated time when you're already in a lighter phase of sleep worked pretty well.

i was just spending way too much time on a long post about this, but i nuked it. rip.

come to my town and i'll tell you what's gonna happen

and watch that fucking tim cook video i posted before you talk about this

wear or own one of these bands for a few weeks and get back at me

if you know apple in the abstract, know and understand their history, and have been following the leaks surrounding this product, a lot of what they end up revealing shouldn't be a surprise

dan, people have developed tech that does all of that through the skin. or some of that. but apparently it might still be a little fucked up and not ready for market.

know apple in the abstract

I barely know myself, how can I be expected to know a company of thousands?

you know what i mean! i waste a lot of time on this shit. too much!

look, i don't have many things i can claim any sort of expertise on, but this is one of them

i don't know anything about music compared to most of the people here. i know more about apple than almost anyone.

if you want to be really cool in life, say "i know more about apple than almost anyone"

it gets you a lot of friends and members of whatever sex(es) you're into

markers, reading a ton of online speculation isn't expertise, it's fandom. I've been there for a few things.

"i wasted precious hours of my life reading gil amelio's memoir and have chrisann brennan's on my desk, partially completed"

markers, reading a ton of online speculation isn't expertise, it's fandom. I've been there for a few things.

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:54 AM

it's not "online speculation"! that's a small part of it!

time doing something you enjoy isn't wasted

well, all i'm saying is that i've spent a lot of time studying them

what is your opinion on dieter rams

i don't know anything about goon music. i don't know anything about american politics. i know a lot. a lot. about apple. i could be on the talk show.

what a cool claim, btw

"i could be on the talk show". be my friend!

what is your opinion on dieter rams

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:57 AM

i wonder how much his adjustable bookshelf system costs because my bookshelf was $60 at ikea

also apple's old iphone calculator app looked a hell of a lot like his calculator

none of my irl friends are into this shit. hell, most of my online friends aren't into this shit either. it's a lonely life, watching steve jobs doing shit ad nauseum on youtube.

I got a hot keynote yt waiting in my bed so I'll say this

haha

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ipod-braun.jpg

http://www.designsojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rams-ive.jpg