Useless Conversation

[Phildo]

I love both songs.  Incubus on bagpipes could be pretty cool.

[Ironwood]

When I was in Edinburgh last week, I didn't phone Ironwood to meet up so he could ply me with alcohol.

For shame.

[Signe]

I still run away when ever I hear bagpipes.  It's usually because someone's getting married or just died.  I rather not know.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh joy.  Resource planning meetings are such a lovely fun time.  Honest.

[Zetor]

Oh joy.  Resource planning meetings are such a lovely fun time.  Honest.

Word.

We also had one yesterday -- since the massive downsizing that took place a few weeks back (going from 20 to ~8 people), trying to figure out how we'll fulfill our contractual obligations has been a dumptruck full of fun.

[Yegolev]

This is the sort of people that I associate with:
THEM: Why aren't we playing Destiny right now?
ME: Because one of us has a job.
THEM: I took today off!

[MrHat]

If Apple expects me to use Apple Pay after their latest Fappening Fiasco, they're crazy.

[Lantyssa]

Fapple Bux?

[Trippy]

If Apple expects me to use Apple Pay after their latest Fappening Fiasco, they're crazy.

Can't be worse than what's going on now, like Home Depot getting 60 million cards stolen.

[Yegolev]

The only way it is worse is that Apple is more of an IT company.

[HaemishM]

That's debatable. 

[WayAbvPar]

My entire Twitter feed is filled with idiots talking about the fucking Iphone 6. Shut the fuck up already. And fuck Apple eternally.


But not apples. Because those are goddamned delicious. Honeycrisp season is upon us!

[Ingmar]

Their two-factor authentication is pretty terrible. Only applies to a couple parts of your data. (And not, for example, iCloud).

[Fabricated]

Ahahaha the Apple conference has destroyed all of the people I know who're Apple evangelists but know computers.

They wouldn't stop making fun of bad android phones and how they kept getting bigger and bigger and more useless, and how the iphone 5s was the best phone ever created and that the iWatch speculation was literally a false flag to trick Samsung and others into trying to make smart watches.

Then Apple drops a phablet and a really fucking terrible looking watch. Ahahahahah

[Evildrider]

MOAR PIXELS!

[Ingmar]

The big phone is the first thing that has made me actually want to look at an Apple phone as an option. I hate those tiny things. If I have to replace my current one I'll probably still go Note 4 though.

[Yegolev]

ITT: Using a iPad as your main camera.

[Miasma]

So are they just dropping the current size, like no more 4" screens?

[jakonovski]

Holy shit, Apple is going for solid gold Apple Watches. That's like several thousand in raw materials cost per watch, the msrp must be entering Rolex territory.

[HaemishM]

I still don't understand why anyone wants to make, sell or buy a "smartwatch?" Had it come before every single person including old people and first graders had a smartphone, I could maybe see it. But what does having less functionality in a watch offer to someone who already had a smartphone?

[IainC]

I still don't understand why anyone wants to make, sell or buy a "smartwatch?" Had it come before every single person including old people and first graders had a smartphone, I could maybe see it. But what does having less functionality in a watch offer to someone who already had a smartphone?

It's not instead of a smartphone, it's supplemental to your smartphone. I have an LG G watch (got it for free with my G3) and I don't think the watch even works as a watch if it's not paired to a phone. As phones get bigger and bigger for more power at the inevitable cost of convenience, a smartwatch looks like a much better idea. It gives you a way to harness some of the power of the phone without needing to actually take the convenience hit of hauling something the size of the USS Nimitz's flight deck out of your pocket.

[Fabricated]

What is a novel use for a smart watch that isn't "Save 5 seconds pulling my phone out to check it"?

[schild]

Pretending you're always dieting. That's about it.

[MrHat]

I still don't understand why anyone wants to make, sell or buy a "smartwatch?" Had it come before every single person including old people and first graders had a smartphone, I could maybe see it. But what does having less functionality in a watch offer to someone who already had a smartphone?

It's not instead of a smartphone, it's supplemental to your smartphone. I have an LG G watch (got it for free with my G3) and I don't think the watch even works as a watch if it's not paired to a phone. As phones get bigger and bigger for more power at the inevitable cost of convenience, a smartwatch looks like a much better idea. It gives you a way to harness some of the power of the phone without needing to actually take the convenience hit of hauling something the size of the USS Nimitz's flight deck out of your pocket.

Its a good idea.  Pretty soon we'll just have an ibackPack and a bunch of individual wearables.

[Fabricated]

[IainC]

When I was in Edinburgh last week, I didn't phone Ironwood to meet up so he could ply me with alcohol.

For shame.

I totally would have done, but I thought you were up in the Dundee area for some reason.

[Salamok]

What is a novel use for a smart watch that isn't "Save 5 seconds pulling my phone out to check it"?

So I am waiting for a smart watch swimming app that outdoes the semi-craptacular swim watches on the market while doing everything the ipod nano does, if it can do that while not being within bluetooth range of my phone I think I am in for one.  Currently a waterproof shuffle is $125 and swim watches are $150+.  Other than those wishlist items I have zero use for any watch (smart or otherwise).

[Yoru]

I still don't understand why anyone wants to make, sell or buy a "smartwatch?"

Dick Tracy LARPing.

[Cyrrex]

If you can put enough functionality in that thing to make it useful, I can see it being interesting.  I am pretty curious about it, but the price is just stupidly prohibitive.  That is usually true of Apple products, but this seems even moreso.

And really, the timing for this product is strange.  Apple products are directly responsible for me NOT wearing a watch these days.  It's been years.  They need to market this very heavily towards the same demo that uses the heart monitoring wristbands and other exercises gadgets, because those people might eat it up.  But again, not sure what it offers over their current wristband/smartphone combo.

[Teleku]

The big phone is the first thing that has made me actually want to look at an Apple phone as an option. I hate those tiny things. If I have to replace my current one I'll probably still go Note 4 though.

Total opposite for me, iPhones have always felt perfect.  I cannot stand most android phones because they have gotten hilariously unwieldy.  People look fucking ridiculous using them.  I'll have to see how the new one feels first, but increasing the size has me considering a change for the first time ever (provided I can find an android phone that is a good size and doesn't have a terrible looking GUI).

[Yoru]

Seriously, I long for the day when we have a smartphone with the form factor of one of the old ultraslim Razr phones. Tiny, light, flips closed to protect the screen.

Get on it, industrial designers.

[Phildo]

I've always been completely indifferent to new gadgets.  I'll adopt one of these in 5 or 6 years once it's gone through a few iterations and refinements.  Meh.

Apparently, Intel packages in some garbage software called Intel WiDi on lots of new computers that convinces Microsoft Lync that there are no audio drivers installed.  How?  Why?  I don't know.  But it sure was fun trying to figure that one out.

[ezrast]

I thought I was the only one that missed flip phones. Was good design. Solved a lot of butt-related problems.

[MrHat]

What is a novel use for a smart watch that isn't "Save 5 seconds pulling my phone out to check it"?

So I am waiting for a smart watch swimming app that outdoes the semi-craptacular swim watches on the market while doing everything the ipod nano does, if it can do that while not being within bluetooth range of my phone I think I am in for one.  Currently a waterproof shuffle is $125 and swim watches are $150+.  Other than those wishlist items I have zero use for any watch (smart or otherwise).

I'm sure the same people that waterproof those nano's will waterproof one of these for like $499.

What I'm confused about is that we've had a generation of gadgets built towards one hand use (almost every phone ever). 

Now, instead of figuring out how to run that watch with one hand (acc/gyro/IR for detecting hand/finger motions), they totally copped out and added a REVOLUTIONARY....jogdial?

[Ironwood]

Between his butt related problems and your one handed gadgets, I don't quite know what to post.