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I'm with you, to an extent. Interestingly it was the recent excitement around the Pebble watch that made me realize how indifferent I'd become to a lot of new c
by AVTizzle 14y ago
I'm with you, to an extent. Interestingly it was the recent excitement around the Pebble watch that made me realize how indifferent I'd become to a lot of new consumer WEB products.
I guess I realized Pebble was exciting because it was a new platform with new opportunities and possibilities. I think that explains a lot of the excitement around the upcoming "SmartTV" frontier too. Even mobile is still young enough that new, exciting applications are still pushing boundaries and blowing minds - though it's maturing rapidly.
But as far as classic web products - the web is a much, much more mature canvas with much more solidified players. Of course it'll lose some of that excitement, naturally...
- stiller 14y agoWhich is where the old evergreen 'People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.' comes around. Pebble is a new way to interact with data. Like the iPad, the iPhone, the notebook, the PC, the television, the radio, etc. All the rest is just re-organizing that data. Even if you're not going to create new hardware, this mindset helps thinking about a problem in a physical space. 'When' would I use this and 'where', instead of only 'for what purpose'?