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Relevant section: NO WATCH JG: You don't appear to be wearing an Apple watch tonight. SW: I haven't bought an Apple watch. I haven't ordered one. I want to us
by hrrsn 11y ago
Relevant section:
NO WATCH
JG: You don't appear to be wearing an Apple watch tonight.
SW: I haven't bought an Apple watch. I haven't ordered one. I want to use it and see if that simplification affects my life.
But I have some misgivings too, because I've had some smartwatches and they didn't change my smartphone life. You know, I had them and I wore them and I got rid of them. It just didn't have enough of a 'give me something new I didn't have before', and I'm worried about that.
If you buy the gold one for $17,000, you're getting your money's worth. It's like the gold Rolex. You're buying $17,000 worth of prestige.
But the other ones, there are 20 models from $500 up to $1100 and the only difference is the band. So I'm wondering if Apple's selling watches or bands.
It doesn't seem like the company we started and that moved the world forward.
I was first in line for every iPhone that came out, every iPad that came out, these were important products to me. I just wanted to have the newest, latest, and try it out and use it for some advantages but it just didn't grab me that much for the watch.
Apple should get into electric cars because a company the size of Apple should only look into markets that are going to be huge, huge, huge and the car market is huge, huge, huge.
JG: If you were starting out today, what would you get into?
SW: It might be quantum computing, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars.
The computers are now being taught with neural networks to learn and find the methods that solve the problem.
I really believe that the computers are going to get conscious.
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- drzaiusapelord 11y ago>It doesn't seem like the company we started and that moved the world forward. When was the last time Apple was like the company Woz founded? It seems that conspicuous consumption has been their main gameplan since at least Job returned. Its interesting where Woz draws the line. I don't see the Watch as any different than their other products. I'm a bit surprised Apple didn't have some kind of licensing agreement with all the hot watchmakers to embed a smartwatch 'core' into their existing designs, instead of having something of a 'one size fits all' Apple design. I'd rather pick through a dozen tag heuer's and pick one that fits my style and have then shove in smartwatch guts than pretend the Apple Watch or the Moto 360 is enough for me. If anything, these items aren't conspicuous enough. I think overly-geeky people don't understand that consumers will see watches as fashion items first and things like different styles and brands will be important if you want to be successful in the watch game, smart or not. Lastly, Woz as some kind of canary in the coalmine for Apple has always been questionable. He probably has little to nothing in common with the demographics Apple is actually tageting. This is like asking John McAfee what he thinks of the current version of Endpoint Advanced. Or Paul Allen about the new cheap Lumia.
- sova 11y agoYou sir are a gentleman. Thank you. Also, Woz has a much cooler watch! Nixie Tube Watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R3hODnTGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R3hODnTGo)