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Would you mind explaining how exactly "Apple consistently leads and innovates ahead of other companies and open source"?
by vially 12y ago
Would you mind explaining how exactly "Apple consistently leads and innovates ahead of other companies and open source"?
- efsavage 12y agoMaybe you didn't notice, but they just invented the Watch. Imagine...if you could put a whole entire clock...on your wrist. Almost everybody has a wrist!
- rjurney 12y agoSays the guy who will own one within a year. Or the Android knock off.
- tw04 12y agoPSSST: Android watches were a thing long before Apple pre-announced theirs.
- jordanthoms 12y agoThe Android knockoff that was released a year beforehand.
- rjurney 12y agoAnd it was a smash hit, right? Or... nope, iwatches were shit until Apple defines how the interface will work.
- efsavage 11y agoI've actually long advocated that the pocket brick is a temporary form factor for a phone/computer. The watch will soon be the brain of your computing, to which you will be able to pair any number of dumb displays, keyboards, earpieces, etc. But you're right, I will likely get an iWatch. It will go in my QA toybox with my macbooks and ipads and iphones.
- rjurney 12y agoAre you kidding? Apple reinvents every space they enter with profound invention. Do you remember computers before the Mac? Notebooks before the Macbook? Music players before the iPod? Phones before the iPhone? Tablets before the iPad? And in a month you'll think: watches before the Apple Watch?
- andrewchambers 12y agoYes I do remember all those things, they were pretty good.
- prewett 12y agoYeah, they were pretty good until I used the Apple version... :) (Exception: MacOS 9 laptops, MacBooks pre-titanium) My phone before the iPhone was horrible, though. Partly that was my fault for getting a Razr. The user interface somehow managed it so that my thumb was always in exactly the wrong spot for what I needed to push right now. It was a joyous day when I found someone to give that thing away to. (On the good side, it woke up two years after I stopped using it, plugging it in, etc. to give me an alarm I had set. Now that is a reliability!)
- Gigablah 12y ago> watches before the Apple Watch Yes, I remember the iPod nano
- wpietri 12y agoI think their skill is more profound commercialization. I do in fact remember all of those things. I even owned all of those things before Apple entered those markets. Apple invented very little for any of them. Their strength lies in taking existing technologies, rebuilding them with a strong user focus, and then marketing the hell out of them. So much so that many people apparently forget what came before.
- rjurney 12y agoMost of their success is owing to the invention of new interfaces that fit new form factors. Before that, only dissatisfying shit is available, and the market is mostly novelty. After that, new device categories have actual features a human can use, and a market happens and knock offs compete.