07-05-2013, 04:50 PM
Grieve Wrote:This is the great irony to me. Ever since those massive Motorola "mobile" phones in the 80s, evolving technology has been used to continuously make cellphones smaller and lighter.
There is a point of diminishing returns, which is why you haven't seen phones shrinking even more significantly.
Quote:While Apple keeps focusing on thinner and lighter.
The iphone 5S has an increased display size and is going to have an option for even bigger ones, looks like Apple has learned from their superior competition.
Quote:I still think the "phablet" craze is overblown. I use my iPad mini for stuff I need a bigger screen for. I don't want to carry around a phone I can barely hold in one hand.
I think the note II is a bit too big as well (many people love it though), but my Nexus is bigger than the iphone and is not remotely hard to hold in one hand (unless apple fanbois have really small hands) - and the success of the SII-IV has shown that larger phones are fairly popular.
Quote:As for the watch, the idea is that it saves you from having to take the phone out of your pocket when you don't need to. Check messages, see if you have e-mails, plus biometric sensors to monitor activity, heartbeat, etc. It's not for playing games or watching movies on.
The cost benefit analysis of that crap does not seem very useful. Why would I give a shit about my heartbeat unless I am a long distance runner? Having to buy and wear a tacky piece of electronics on my wrist to save me the 2 seconds it takes to glance at my phone and see if the new message indicator light is blinking light does not seem very appealing to me. Hell, I quit wearing a watch (unless it is a suit accessory) years ago because it was redundant when I was carrying around a phone all the time.
Quote:And as for the fashion disaster, Apple did just hire Yves St Laurent CEO Paul Deneve...
Putting lipstick on a pig does not change the fact that it is a pig. It's going to be awesome to watch either this thing crash and burn or all the Apple fanbois looking even sillier as they are talking to their ugly overpriced watch and getting lost from shitty directions.