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> If you can make some other interface that helps me ask for GPS directions or check my emails, sure. But if you're lumping in all this other crap, I know you'r
by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
> If you can make some other interface that helps me ask for GPS directions or check my emails, sure. But if you're lumping in all this other crap, I know you're just selling vaporware.
Not that I want to defend this particular startup, but if I described the functions of a modern-day smartphone to you back in the 1980s, you'd probably have the same reaction, right? A lot of random, unrelated crap lumped together!
Most of the time, it goes nowhere. But just because somebody is trying to combine a bunch of hitherto-unrelated use cases doesn't mean that the idea is dumb.
- bko 3y agoJobs did a great job showing off the first iPhone. iPod + phone + Internet. And of course iPod was 1000 songs in your pocket. This is what made it successful. Not bs. We think about jobs as very head in the clouds and saying things like computer is really like a bicycle, but he was very practical and clear https://youtu.be/x7qPAY9JqE4?si=2OZiIU95haYTyiHn https://youtu.be/x7qPAY9JqE4?si=2OZiIU95haYTyiHn
- maronato 3y agoI don’t think that’s an apt comparison. The smartphones of today allow us to do things unimaginable to people in the 80s. This startup doesn’t seem to be creating any new use for the technology in your phone, just changing the way you interact with it from a glass screen to a projected screen on your hand or countertop.
- PumpkinSpice 3y agoNothing our phones do today was unimaginable in the 1980s. Pick up any pop-sci journal from the era and they had the predictions pretty much nailed down. The stuff just wasn't feasible to do with the technology they had at the time, and they didn't consider that phones, and not some other fashion accessory, would end up as the hubs of our digital lives. Wristwatches, household appliances (e.g., TVs), or calculators seemed like a better bet.