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Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart?
theodp writes "Throwing some cold water on the buzz surrounding the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch launch, The New Yorker's Matt Buchanan questions how smart a watch can really be. Calling offerings like the Galaxy Gear useful but not the stuff of dreams and revolutions, Buchanan writes, 'So there remains a strange undercurrent of hope that somebody-Apple-will figure out, soon, some grander vision for wearable technology, transforming it from something that people have vaguely imagined into something people intensely desire. It did it for smartphones, once, and again, for tablets. The question that Apple has been charged with, since nobody has definitively answered it yet, is whether the lack of an invention that truly carries us beyond the last five hundred years of wrist-mounted technology is the result of a failure of imagination or simply a fact of nature-that a watch will always just be a watch, no matter how smart it might think it is.' So, will you be an early adopter and drink Samsung's or Sony's smartwatch Kool-Aid, wait to see what Apple comes up with, or hold out for a Windows Forearm Pad 8?"
The only thing Apple ever does right is target stupid people.
Apple fanboys still exist? Thought they died off with Jobsy. ... At least 10 times as long .. But as the Apple fanboys say "that's bells and whistles" or "nobody wants it" - until Apple does it...
IPhone was and is clumsy. For example, everyone else had WIFI toggle in 1 slide, 1 tap... Apple has 1 button, 1 tap, 1 slide, 1 tap, 1 tap
> When you look at the iPhone, Apple figured out how to make it do stuff people craved to do over and over
BULLSHIT
I can only assume Apple's refusal to put such basic functionality as WIFI toggle in is because it's too hard for an Apple user... Apple thinks of them like "Forrest Gump".. I grumble each time I want to toggle WIFI, and think how lucky those "Nexus using" bastards are...