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Re: Moto 360

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Post by tripzilch »

jey wrote: post #217
w1ntermute wrote: post #167

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Apple is more a fashion company than a tech company. Those who buy and use its products are primarily concerned with advertising the fact that they use Apple products - conspicuous consumption. It's no different from how Gucci or Prada owners make sure to prominently display the brand of their handbag when they are in public. It's a simple form of signaling your identity, that you belong to a particular group. This i…

No, what's incredible is that they're simultaneously a tech company and a fashion company. Perhaps it would be most accurate to say they are a design company in the consumer electronics market. Calling them a "design-oriented company" is inclusive of their multiple facets, including usability, fashion, and performance.

And it's incredible that Coca-Cola is simultaneously mass-producing chemical sludge, selling it to the masses and is a fashion company!

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Post by VeejayRampay »

megablast wrote: post #312
VeejayRampay wrote: post #283

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You might want to double check this but I seem to recall that Google didn't sell all of Motorola to Lenovo, only the mobile division. This might explain that.

Yeah, the still retain the watch division, as well as the shoe division and shirt division.

I feel like you're being sarcastic but I'm not sure why. There's more to Motorola than just mobile.

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Post by tripzilch »

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #191
w1ntermute wrote: post #167

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Apple is more a fashion company than a tech company. Those who buy and use its products are primarily concerned with advertising the fact that they use Apple products - conspicuous consumption. It's no different from how Gucci or Prada owners make sure to prominently display the brand of their handbag when they are in public. It's a simple form of signaling your identity, that you belong to a particular group. This i…

The reason Apple laptops are so popular is hardly that they are a status symbol and more the fact that they're so damn comfortable to use. I agree about other Apple products, however.

People say (or said) the same about Nike shoes and Levis jeans. It's not the point. Yes they are high quality, but Wintermute wasn't commenting on that fact, the point is the brand identity of "Apple is high quality and comfortable to use", it's the first part where it says Apple Apple Apple.

I am wearing a pair of very cheap no-brand jeans, they are extremely durable and comfortable (the label also ironically reads "Unsigned", which I admit made me smile a bit, but it's not a brand, in a few years that store chain (Scapino) will have different labels, and nobody will notice one bit). I'm not going around saying "Unsigned has great durable comfy jeans"--also because they're not, extremely varying quality, you just have to try on at least 5 different ones that are ostensibly the same size (which they are also not). They're cheap though and this makes me very happy with them :)

Re: Moto 360

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

My first impression is that the face looks slightly too big for the wrists it is being modelled on. If the pictures are representative of the final product then I can't see it being worn by many women, or men with slimmer wrists.

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Post by robmcm »

glomph wrote: post #147
mikeryan wrote: post #44

Am I the only one who doesn't wear a watch (even if I wanted to) because I don't like the way it scratches against my MacBook Pro?

I find it hilarious that you name the exact model of laptop.

Relevant due to the fact it has a metal case.

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Post by laumars »

agumonkey wrote: post #272
laumars wrote: post #249

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I used to have a v70. It was one of my favourite phones I've owned.

I only had one Motorola phone, a v36 (Europe name), it was a very special phone, extremely elegant http://imgur.com/ , not fully featured but everything it did, it did quick and well. I always had a small thing for Motorola hardware since.

I'm not familiar with the v35, but that would have been a different phone from the v70 and not just a European name since I live in Europe and my v70 was still called a v70.

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Post by laumars »

criswell wrote: post #320
awalton wrote: post #238

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This is exactly what's wrong with the idea of smartwatches today. People want to do things like put websites on them. Why, why on earth do I need the web on my watch?

Why not if it can be done well? Also, I thought the same thing about my smart phone years ago.

Really? Viewing websites was one of the most demanded features from a smart phone. To the point where feature phones and executive phones had in built web browsers before iPhones and their ilk came to market. It's also why WAP (for all it's sins) was created in the 90s and available on dumb phones.

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Post by leonvonblut »

radley wrote: post #69
martythemaniak wrote: post #23

I'm very impressed. When I saw the Google video, I thought the round watch was a photoshopped concept we may see in the future, but it's actually shipping in a few months. Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen? I'd be interested to see how the layouts work from a developer perspective. Whether relative or fixed, desktop, mobile or web, we're all so used to rectangular, grid based layouts.

It's still "simulated" which means Photoshopped / After Effects. I"m actually pretty nervous because there's no "simulated" disclaimer, yet these mock-ups are terribly rough: - fake / inconsistent lighting accents & bevel - screens in the photos are pixelated (looks like a screen-res quality source was rotated), yet the 3D model's screen is totally smooth suggesting 400 dpi or better - clip rotation angles are off -…

it's not photoshop at all, device emulator exists and it works good.
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