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Isn't the dial off-center? http://imgur.com/5nFbP5r
"Ergonomic button placement": http://imgur.com/Ed57fhj Makes sense. Since it's just a button, not a dial, the higher placement is more convenient for the index finger.
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I think what's unusual about Apple here is: 1. How vehement their condemnation is (especially since, in retrospect, they're already busy working on exactly what they're condeming), 2. How quickly and comprehensively they flip the story when their version is ready and 3. How predictable this pattern is for them. Given past experience, I almost expect Apple to be working on actual toaster-fridges in a skunkworks projec…
What's the alternative, though? They don't want other companies to know what they're working on, so they say "no" to something until they have it ready, and then they say "yes".
I understand why Apple uses mockery (better publicity, more memorable, firing up fans, etc.) but, at a minimum, Apple (and their defenders) should expect well-earned mockery in return, especially given their pattern of flips.
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I found the video offensive. I wanted to know about the watch. 1 minute in, it was almost entirely just shots of that guy. Fuck that shit. They're trying to get me to think the watch is cool because the guy is cool, rather than sell me on the features. I didn't finish watching. Treat me as a rational consumer or GTFO. And stop wasting my time. My time is valuable to me.
yes. All the videos are cringeworthy with laughably clumsy and fake sounding dialog. They are in dire need of coaching to better appeal to westerners.
Scrolling with the mousewheel is funky in Chrome. Hate when websites hijack the scroll event and misuse it.
I abandoned the website in less than 20 seconds as I couldn't navigate the page below on Chrome.
Scrolling with the mousewheel is funky in Chrome. Hate when websites hijack the scroll event and misuse it.
Huawei is the main Supplier of the GFW of China. The Golden Shield Project (Chinese: 金盾工程; pinyin: jīndùn gōngchéng), colloquially referred to as the Great Firewall of China [1] (Chinese: 防火长城; pinyin: fánghuǒ chángchéng) is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of China.
Main? I believe that title goes to Cisco. Not sure what it has to do with a smart watch though. http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/suit-over-ciscos-ro...
Having something on your wrist made by a company that has hundred-million dollar deals providing surveillance technology to the largest surveillance state in the world seems as if it would have significant security implications.
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To be fair, basically every major corporation and most people do this. I can think of a half dozen Google examples just from my time there, and more than a few Facebook ones too.
I think what's unusual about Apple here is: 1. How vehement their condemnation is (especially since, in retrospect, they're already busy working on exactly what they're condeming), 2. How quickly and comprehensively they flip the story when their version is ready and 3. How predictable this pattern is for them. Given past experience, I almost expect Apple to be working on actual toaster-fridges in a skunkworks projec…
Heck, I can't remember the last time they had an ad or even a press release attacking a competitor. I guess the "I'm a Mac" ads were a type of attack ad, but even those were intentionally not mean-spirited, and that was years ago anyway. Their competitors are frequently much more confrontational in their ads.
You seem to be basing your view of them on a particular narrative which relies on assumptions about their motivation and character, i.e. "OK, maybe everybody does that stuff, but they do it for reasons that make them bad people!"
From the recent New Yorker profile of Jonny Ive: > The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists ”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any sense,” Ive said. Its final form resembles one of Newson’s watches, and the Cartier Santos, from 1904. I think circular watches, in principle, look a lot nicer (certainly in ads), but tha…
It's worth mentioning that the roundness of watches came from their history of being miniaturised clocks, which standardised on the analogue dial with rotating hands for its display. Making the watch round to fit its display made sense, and people got used to round watches as being the norm.
Looking at it that way, a round smartwatch seems like an anachronism; there's no reason they have to be made round, and the technology behind them favours making them rectangular. Saying that smartwatches are better round is sort of like saying that LCDs should be made in the same circular or semi-spherical shape that CRTs were.
Telephones have also changed in shape, from the earliest "two sticks" design with separate transmitter/receiver, the symmetrically-shaped handset that remains common for landlines, and the mobile phones that gradually evolved from that shape to the rectangular slabs of smartphones today.
Thus, much like smartphones look nothing like traditional telephones, I don't think it's necessarily true that smartwatches will need to be round.