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by deong 12y ago
I think you're largely correct, but I'd add another point, which is that even if Evans was on the money about why people bought a Galaxy Note a year or two ago, it far from follows that the decision process is exactly the same tod
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by deong 12y ago
I guess his point is that the high-end mechanical watch market only exists at all because of, as you say, collectors. It's older people with a bit of cash to spend on a luxury item. But those 40 year-old people grew up with cheaper ver
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by deong 12y ago
I didn't really intend that to be literal. I'm going with the "skiing as a metaphor" here. Yes, people will do something arduous and inconvenient for the experience, but they do it rarely. The inconvenience is tolerable
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by deong 12y ago
I guess what I'm asking though is can the reader differentiate between the two? My understanding is that Apple sends a one-time use card number to the reader, so maybe it's possible for the software could run some variation of a L
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by deong 12y ago
Some people ski, occasionally. I can totally see that future for VR as well, and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. For gaming, it's at least potentially very compelling. I just don't see it as a technology people want for m
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by deong 12y ago
I'm in Iceland, and I don't really see them much (if ever). Chip and pin readers are the norm here, and you can completely function without cash, but I don't notice contactless options really. I'll take this opportunity
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by deong 12y ago
I don't see that as being a problem that people are looking for a solution to. You're describing interacting with a very heavy desktop-type computing system, but the headset only solves the output problem. If I need large numbers
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by deong 12y ago
The good thing is that we all should benefit. I've had NFC on at least my last two phones (maybe 3?), but the hardware is not ubiquitous enough to matter. I'm assuming that there's nothing locking the POS hardware into Apple
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by deong 12y ago
And of course the one thing we've heard over and over for the past few years from Apple is "teenagers don't wear watches". Presumably one could also add, "teenagers don't have a grand in cash to spend on a phon
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by deong 12y ago
Funny you should mention it, but I currently live about 10,000 kilometers from my girlfriend. And like I said, it's maybe an OK thing between partners. I think it's a stupid gimmick that would immediately get old even then, but
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by deong 12y ago
You're reading me wrong. I wouldn't be up in arms about it -- I'd be giddy at the prospect of giving my friend shit over it. As presumably, my friends would be for me if I sent them sketches.
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by deong 12y ago
No, on Android, you create as many specific layouts as you want, based on combinations of screen size, density, orientation, language, etc. Within each of those layouts, you specify how you want the system to scale the UI up for those you d
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by deong 12y ago
I think that very much depends on perspective. The technology powering a current-gen headset might be brilliant, but the headset itself -- not the technology but the very idea that I need a headset is still very much an "awful hack&quo
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by deong 12y ago
Good point. I'm still skeptical that's the plan for the watch, but I guess it's plausible at least.
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by deong 12y ago
> How cool would it be to vibrate someone's wrist with a martini glass saying implying that I haven't seen you in a while and want to go get a drink. No need for email, calling, texting anything. At best , "cool" is
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by deong 12y ago
> People want new experiences without leaving their sofa and VR will bring that in spades. It's far from clear that they're actually willing to do anything about it. Look at 3D TVs. No one wants to sit on their couch lazily wat
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by deong 12y ago
The watch-to-watch communication with all the sharing your heart rate and sending little pictures was the most Samsung thing I've ever seen anyone but Samsung do. Seriously, is there a real problem lurking around somewhere for which th
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by deong 12y ago
That doesn't seem to match my offhand recollections. Apple tends to keep price points the same and just update specs occasionally. The first iPhone famously had a price drop quite soon, but has that been true for their other product li
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by deong 12y ago
I think it's a general limitation of the optical heart rate trackers that they aren't quite "24/7". At least on all the Android Wear devices that feature one, you have to ask it to take a reading, and it's pret
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by deong 12y ago
Smart glasses might be better for some people, but the issue is that no one likes wearing glasses. We developed plastic things you physically press onto your eyeball with your finger because people both (a) need to see, and (b) hate weari
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by deong 12y ago
Pretty much all the watches are single-core. Most of them are using a Snapdragon 400 (quad-core) but with all but one of the cores disabled.
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by deong 12y ago
I doubt this is accurate. Companies do sometimes take a while to get a product to market, but if so, they don't typically do it with parts that they bought all in a batch four years ago. The specs evolve with the design requirements. F
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by deong 12y ago
That's about the same as I would get on the Gear Live if I skipped charging it for a night. On a normal day, I take it off the charger around 8:00 or 8:30, and I'm usually going to bed around 2:00 with 45-ish percent left.
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by deong 12y ago
Motorola makes a watch, the Moto 360, the name being an obvious hat tip to being round. There's a bit of black plastic along the bottom though, so the actual screen takes up a bit less than the full area of the circle. And Gruber certa
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by deong 12y ago
No, he's just very particular ( https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=john+gruber+%22moto+270... ) about people respecting other people's names for their work. Stay tuned though. My sources tell me he's going do
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by deong 12y ago
Maybe we're just too immersed in our own terminology, but to me, "Standard X" (e.g., Standard ML) refers not necessarily to the notion that "our version owns the concept of X" but that "our version of X is st
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by deong 12y ago
Popularity has no relationship with being generic. The classic case, Kleenex, has the entire first page of Google hits referring to the product of the same name, but it's still a generic mark now. Even if popularity did matter, Googl
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by deong 12y ago
Generally with language standards though, the major players involved are all part of the standardization process. A slightly different example might be Microsoft developing an incompatible version of Java and calling it Java (until they got
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by deong 12y ago
I think you can draw an analogy to trademark law here. I know we're not talking about anyone registering trademarks and suing each other here, but when it's good, law tends to reflect common practice, and I think trademark law act
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by deong 12y ago
For iOS and Android at least, automatic and relatively transparent updates are a user-preference, so you can't as a developer force users to update, although I'm sure most have automatic updates enabled. You could I suppose vers

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