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/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
apple historically supports more govt and more taxes, they just don't support paying them.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
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.― call all destroyer, Monday, September 22, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― call all destroyer, Monday, September 22, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My employer's wellness program provides fitbits but idk if they do any tracking of the people who wear them.
― naus, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
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
― stet, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
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
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
What opportunities?
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
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?
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
HKBodyTemperatureSensorLocationRectumThe temperature was taken in the rectum.Available in iOS 8.0 and later.
The temperature was taken in the rectum.
Available in iOS 8.0 and later.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
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?
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/89cdc682325eab0ffd8842da84a2748f/tumblr_inline_nihkh3I4vn1t7dpx0.jpg
― definitely listening to an adult MTG player (salthigh), Monday, 9 March 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to getting my “callow boosterism” on later today!
― markers, Monday, 9 March 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
"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.
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
― markers, Monday, 9 March 2015 07:17 (nine years ago) link
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
― markers, Monday, 9 March 2015 07:18 (nine years ago) link
l'esprit de l'escalier
― sktsh, Monday, 9 March 2015 10:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
I hone settings for fun!
― Jeff, Monday, 9 March 2015 11:31 (nine years ago) link
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..
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
if my focus group of one is any indication you are wildly otm
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
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!!
― max, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
Has Ive’s work declined? My favorite work from both an iconic and engineering perspective:
1998 — iMac G31999 — iBook2000 — Power Mac G4 Cube2001 — iPod2002 — iMac G42003 — Power Mac G52007 — iPhone2008 — MacBook Air2010 — iPhone 4
Moreover, his worst work is his recent work (e.g. iPhone 5c, iOS 7, and iOS 8).
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
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?"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
I would add:
1994 - MessagePad 1102001 - Non-clamshell iBook2001 - 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?
― stet, Monday, 9 March 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
otm hoping for hypercolor next
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
http://atomicdelights.com/blog/a-glimpse-at-how-the-apple-watch-is-made
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link