Put the knife down and take a green herb, dude. (c) Ruffin Bailey 2001-2021

Is it just me, or is anyone else fed up with the number of pixels spilt covering this danged Apple Watch? I listen to a number of Apple-themed podcasts (Accidental Tech Podcast, The Talk Show, Upgrade, Core Intuition, Release Notes), and they wasted hour after hour talking not about how the Apple Watch might change the world, but about which version was the best, and who should buy, and if the bigger ones should be more expensive, and slow, painful rationalizations about why they were going to shell out for the watch above the Sports version.

The only podcast whose talk about the Watch hasn't been tedious banter over the cost of the Edition or about which stupid band's going to look best with what (and, if you can buy bands separately, you know, putting a nice band on a Sports watch is a great way to stick it to the man! What a loophole!) is David Smith's Developing Perspective, which thankfully has kept itself limited to why one'd want to program for the thing at all.

WHO CARES TO HEAR WHY YOU WANT A WATCH OR HOW MUCH THE OBSCENELY EXPENSIVE "EDITION EDITION" WILL COST?!!

What a freakin' set of First World Problems. The iPhone is neat. It's a computer in your pocket. Even though the iPhone 6 is a First World Problem, smartphones are not; they're even more ubiquitous than PCs. Heard an interesting Upgrade (iirc) podcast with a guy from the Khan Academy, who was trying to figure out how to put programming lessons on a featurephone.

Internet via mobile device is important. Which band you buy or how much gold is in the embarrassingly expensive Edition edition [sic] for Apple Watch 1.0 is not. I don't mind a quick discussion, but folks are obsessing over this meaningless cruft.

I don't mind if Apple moves towards an emphasis on style, but I do worry if the Apple developer and evangelist community painfully follows suit.

Labels: #FWP, apple, hats of money

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Monday, March 09, 2015
Apple Watch, a First World Problem Is it just me, or is anyone else fed up with the number of pixels spilt covering this danged Apple Watch? I listen to a number of Apple-themed podcasts (Accidental Tech Podcast, The Talk Show, Upgrade, Core Intuition, Release Notes), and they wasted hour after hour talking not about how the Apple Watch might change the world, but about which version was the best, and who should buy, and if the bigger ones should be more expensive, and slow, painful rationalizations about why they were going to shell out for the watch above the Sports version. The only podcast whose talk about the Watch hasn't been tedious banter over the cost of the Edition or about which stupid band's going to look best with what (and, if you can buy bands separately, you know, putting a nice band on a Sports watch is a great way to stick it to the man! What a loophole!) is David Smith's Developing Perspective, which thankfully has kept itself limited to why one'd want to program for the thing at all. WHO CARES TO HEAR WHY YOU WANT A WATCH OR HOW MUCH THE OBSCENELY EXPENSIVE "EDITION EDITION" WILL COST?!! What a freakin' set of First World Problems. The iPhone is neat. It's a computer in your pocket. Even though the iPhone 6 is a First World Problem, smartphones are not; they're even more ubiquitous than PCs. Heard an interesting Upgrade (iirc) podcast with a guy from the Khan Academy, who was trying to figure out how to put programming lessons on a featurephone. Internet via mobile device is important. Which band you buy or how much gold is in the embarrassingly expensive Edition edition [sic] for Apple Watch 1.0 is not. I don't mind a quick discussion, but folks are obsessing over this meaningless cruft. I don't mind if Apple moves towards an emphasis on style, but I do worry if the Apple developer and evangelist community painfully follows suit. Labels: #FWP, apple, hats of money posted by ruffin at 3/09/2015 09:25:00 PM

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