Serious Apple

Also I think watch is a much more likely to succeed wearable than google glass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_BznBwktw

one hand they represent the great american spirit of entrepreneurial spirit and achievement, they support smaller government and less taxes

Zero taxes that is: http://www.forbes.com/sites/leesheppard/2013/05/28/how-does-apple-avoid-taxes/

apple historically supports more govt and more taxes, they just don't support paying them.

its a good question, not sure if any of that stuff has happened w/fitbits yet but as someone with a tangential interest in what the health insurance industry is up to i feel strongly that it's on its way.

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My employer's wellness program provides fitbits but idk if they do any tracking of the people who wear them.

If the fashion is right I think the watch could be v popular with people who keep their phones in bags rather than pockets and hate missing notifications/calls. That probably skews towards women right now, but that could change to include a lot of men as phones get bigger

xp i think at some point they're going to want to do anonymized collection of fitbit data, like the analytics opportunities are just too crazy to resist.

man if only some entity was as obsessed with tracking how much i don't drive providing a net health benefit to everyone as much as the health analytics industry was with getting into my body.

I don't drive *and* don't drink (like one sixth of a beer per fiscal quarter, tops) so in my mental accounting that means I can impulse-buy basically anything under $50 whenever I want

xp i think at some point they're going to want to do anonymized collection of fitbit data, like the analytics opportunities are just too crazy to resist.

What opportunities?

If someone were to believe that technological and industrial design were critical to the future direction of the planet and humankind, then I suppose Apple would seem like an important leader in those fields. I happen to think these categories are less than critical in importance.

really? you can't think of a single critically important thing that doesn't hinge at least partially on technology + industrial design?

HKBodyTemperatureSensorLocationRectum

The temperature was taken in the rectum.

Available in iOS 8.0 and later.

oof. fucked up the phrasing there. you can't think of a single critically important thing that hinges at least partially on technology + industrial design?

xp eh i was just thinking if i was an ensurer i'd be mighty interested in a bunch of data related ppl's real-life phys activity, sleep, etc. at the cost of a slight premium discount.

http://media.tumblr.com/89cdc682325eab0ffd8842da84a2748f/tumblr_inline_nihkh3I4vn1t7dpx0.jpg

looking forward to getting my “callow boosterism” on later today!

"four-ish years"? BFD. I've been mixed up with Apple for 26 years.

The "bigger stuff" I'm thinking of is the long-term strategy of Apple Pay.

u sure u weren't asleep at the wheel for, like, twenty-four, twenty-five of the twenty-six

anyway, i think i am going to leave this thread now, but maybe one day the two of us will go to whole foods together, where i will buy you a seltzer with apple pay in honor of steven paul jobs

l'esprit de l'escalier

if notifications on a watch are going to work, apple needs a significantly better and easier way of improving the signal to noise ratio than there is now. i don't even look at the notifications screen on my phone any more because it's cluttered with irrelevant and out of date shit. yes i know i can hone my settings but fuck honing a setting

I hone settings for fun!

the venn diagram of people who are shelling out for these watches and people who hone settings for fun is not gonna show a huge amount of overlap is my hunch..

i think the venn diagram of people who are shelling out for these watches and people who refuse to hone notification settings at all is not gonna show a huge amount of overlap either

if my focus group of one is any indication you are wildly otm

actually i guess there are a buncha, like, mildly wealthy single dudes obsessed with status for whom their watch settings could represent an extension of self-upkeep, like, ok ordered belle epoque cigarette ad with most expensive frame: check, shaved pubes: check, hone my settings: check

i think there are a lot of dudes out there who have figured out how to turn off notifications they don't want to see with a relative lack of stress or work or thought!!

Has Ive’s work declined? My favorite work from both an iconic and engineering perspective:

1998 — iMac G3
1999 — iBook
2000 — Power Mac G4 Cube
2001 — iPod
2002 — iMac G4
2003 — Power Mac G5
2007 — iPhone
2008 — MacBook Air
2010 — iPhone 4

Moreover, his worst work is his recent work (e.g. iPhone 5c, iOS 7, and iOS 8).

oh god the idea of figuring out how to make spotify notify me when THIS playlist updates but not THAT one gives me a blast of ennui straight to the dome and i just slide the whole mess out of the way

but yeah i fully own up to my series of posts on this topic being firmly in the long tradition of "hey apple, why didn't you design your products specifically for me?"

yeah that's like my wife complaining today about some problem she had with the phone's alarm and it came down to their defaulting to having snooze turned on

I would add:

1994 - MessagePad 110
2001 - Non-clamshell iBook
2001 - TiBook (not so much on the engineering side with all that flaking)

Definitely nothing like the big hits recently. And please god can we get a mac laptop that isn't brushed aluminium already?

otm hoping for hypercolor next

http://atomicdelights.com/blog/a-glimpse-at-how-the-apple-watch-is-made