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Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by CoffeeDregs »

hooplarbazaar wrote: post #331
CoffeeDregs wrote: post #312

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Apple doesn't get info on what you're buying... and I hope others follow suit. As cynical marketing, I definitely see the value; in reality, not so much. Amazon, Visa, Petco, PayPal, BrianTree, etc. will still have a record of my purchases and we're on an inexorable march towards wider distribution of that data. How does Apple not having this data materially affect me?

That's very disingenuous. Amazon, PayPal and Google rely on selling your data and selling you products based on your data to make money. Visa, Mastercard and Amex mostly rely on transaction processing fees, and make extra money on the data processing in a very limited way. What Apple are doing is removing the middleman, purely making this about transactions, not data. This means they're avoiding selling private infor…

It's not that I don't care about this; it's that Apple is doing this cynically and for short term gain, not for substantial benefit. If they care about this as more than a marketing ploy, they would have set up an organization to set policies and to verify adherence. That would have been awesome.

"blah blah blah, and we don't store your financial information or transaction history. That's easy to say, but the pendulum has swung too far away from protecting our rights as consumers, so today we're doing more than that; we're announcing the Financial Information Security Organization and we're inviting companies to join us in making sure that all of our financial information is secure."

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by theoutlander »

RexRollman wrote: post #44

I'm getting older, so maybe my desires don't match up with the majority of tech people's anymore, but does anyone really want an iWatch (or whatever it ends up being called)? I am just not sold on the usefulness of such a thing.

Personally, I'm not interested in an iWatch. I haven't looked at the specs, but I'm assuming the iphone connects to it. If it can notify meetings, texts, alerts, phone calls, etc. it might be really useful gadget for my wife when she is busy running behind kids around the house and at work.... bonus if it gave her an insight into how much energy she spent throughout the day, haha.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by gone35 »

fluidcruft wrote: post #337
gone35 wrote: post #326

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I was about to comment the exact same thing. Perhaps it looks better in person, but honestly I find it weirdly jarring and just wrong --I never thought I would feel such distaste for a millennial Apple device. It's a shame: if it looked like the Moto 360 (except with a fully-round screen), it would have been quite something... But then de gustibus non est disputandum , so please don't flame me if you disagree! (PD: A…

Maybe Motorola beat Apple to the PTO with a design patent for a circle.

Their patent portfolio is that ridiculous, so I wouldn't be surprised. I bet Motorola also holds the patent for "centering stuff" --hence the strangely off-centered everything.

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Post by totalrobe »

anigbrowl wrote: post #311
sbarre wrote: post #304

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And you really think people should lose their jobs over this? What's wrong with you?

Anyone who screwed up like this in the world of broadcast television would certainly be fired. I am actually etremely impressed by the new products (in a way I didn't expect to be), but this webcast failure tarnishes the launch and will directly impact their bottom line in the short term.

You have got to be kidding. The viewers of the livestream are already Apple fanboys who are going to buy all this crap anyways.

Everyone else is just going to see it on Engadget, Gizmodo, Fox News, or wherever.

This will not impact their bottom line one bit.

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Post by thesimon »

evinugur wrote: post #325
OedipusRex wrote: post #158

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I hope this isn't a sign of things to come, they really seem to be clamping down on third-party competitors on their platforms.

I'm not even sure what the strategical advantage of limiting the stream in the first place. People who can't access it still want information about Apple, and often resort to 3rd party blogs, or someone else streaming the stream. I understand why apple has a closed door stance on technology, but limiting people from participating in a live event about Apple seems foolish and with no obvious benefit

Reduce server load?

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by wdewind »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #327
yumraj wrote: post #284

Is it just me or the iWatch "looks" really ugly, at least when compared with Moto 360 which looks beautiful. iWatch may win out on functionality and user experience etc., but it just looks funky.

iWatch may win out on functionality and user experience etc., but it just looks funky. As Gruber pointed out, "Everyone else has gone skeuomorphic." I think he makes a terrible point since there are a severely limited set of possibilities for putting a small screen on your wrist and since existing watches have more than exhausted those possibilities. I agree about the Moto-360: whatever its faults, it looks nice. I u…

> a Tag Heuer Android watch with replaceable innards

Yeah I definitely do want that. Would pay in the $1K range for a Tag quartz, if they could somehow keep an automatic movement in there...

Can't wait to see what happens when the watch companies adopt tech rather than the tech companies adopting watches.

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Post by evol262 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #350
nmjohn wrote: post #274

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I have as well in the US. It's almost disingenuous for apple to make it sound like this is such new technology... But I'm not going to complain, now that apple has nfc payments retailer adoption is going to go up so that's a good thing for everyone.

When a technology is implemented in a way that adheres to a certain standard of quality that leads to widespread adoption, to consumers it might as well be new technology.

Yeah, because Verifone's extant NFC readers definitely aren't standardized at all and haven't worked for years, with wide enough adoption that Whole Foods, Circle K, and fast food chains have them already. Everyone's just waiting for Apple to come along with the "standard of quality".

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Post by mbillie1 »

joosters wrote: post #346
julianpye wrote: post #307

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The crazy part is the Gold 'Edition' Version. It's not like a Swiss watch, which is sold to be passed on to new generations, since your children won't be happy to get such outdated tech. What will they do with old Gold versions? Smelt them?

Regarding the watch to be 'passed on to new generations', this is well worth reading: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_f...

Cutting and insightful. Thanks for linking it.
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