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Whatever. I am keeping mine. It's the future. It's addictive. It's magical. There isn't a lot of content, but I still haven't gotten bored enough to start codin
by seeknotfind 3y ago
Whatever. I am keeping mine. It's the future. It's addictive. It's magical. There isn't a lot of content, but I still haven't gotten bored enough to start coding apps on it.
I've done a number of hacks to get it to work, but using my Android phone as a Bluetooth keyboard is the killer app. Google keyboard swype plus the better Google voice recognition makes it usable. Also, I cut off the fabric of a backup light shield, so you can use it with peripheral vision. That's pretty decent for chores.
Give it a few weeks for bored people to start making apps, figure out how to limit YouTube on this thing so you're not turning into a wire head. I try to watch my 80" TV now, and it just feels too small and restricted.
This is just the news being news. If you're savy, and if you have a MBP, and especially if you're a developer, and especially if you have the money, it's legit. It's only going to get better. My thought was, better spend the money now and experience a revolution than wait a year for it to be even better, but too afraid to drop that amount of money when the second one is about to come out.
- Etheryte 3y agoThe rest of your comment I can get, but the last part is very hard to follow. As the tech evolves you would expect to either get similar features for cheaper, or to get more features for the same money. (Adjusted for inflation, iPhones etc follow this pattern for example.) So I don't really understand the whole concept of better to spend more money now than to spend less money in the future for a better device.
- wrasee 3y agoBecause in the future you can also wait to spend less money in the future future for a better better device :) No really, in that sense you want to jump in just after a significant change, to get the most out of the ‘new’, now. And they will never be a better time for that than on the first release. (Future changes being typically more diminishingly incremental as time goes on, at least relative to that point in time.) At least that’s my take the argument.
- moneywoes 3y agocan i build apps for this without owning one? can’t afford atm
- archagon 3y agoWhy is it “the future”? What does that even mean?
- maximus-decimus 3y agoMy guess is he means it'll be omnipresent in 10 years like the Iphone is now. If this gets small enough, this could potentially replace phones entirely.