Its a free world sir Sent from sputnik7
> On 19/04/2015, at 1:00 am, george b <gbma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think we are tired of your comments on this > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux > Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 07:50 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Thought I would press that button but too much of it tells me not to > > Hi All, > > I’m that guy who wrote that satirical experience at the apple store to fumble > with a dead watch before arrival, unlike a dead on arrival watch. Don’t know > which one is better. > > To be sincere, I yesterday pushed a button for the space grey 42mm with space > grey link bracelet, the most expensive one. This is not because I like > fashion, it’s because the sleekest most discrete and functionally solid one > seems to be the most expensive. And since I wish or wanted to or was going to > use it everyday by trying lots of tests coding apps for it, I thought it > might be better to do it right while I’m there. > > So I pressed the button, but now I’m hard pressed to press yet another > button, the cancel order one. > More and more of my sighted friends, a few of my VIP friends and article > after article of the trends going on, from apple going to bed with wall > street as opposed to when jobs was there, apple becoming less focused on real > experiences but increasing a bucket load of bullshit experiences, sending > luxury brand fahsionistas, famous singers etc on a long list to wear a custom > watch no one will be able to get anyway, as marketing tools instead of those > really imaginative and creawtive ways jobs and his team used to have to make > it dreamy, fun and edgy, from all this pep talk about the best this and that, > I find the apple experience to be fading into a set of what used to be great > advances to rushing to get something out. Read the article below, it really > drives it thoroughly. > > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042987/you-guys-realize-the-apple-watch-is-going-to-flop-right > > And now, going through my assignments in higher maths and artificial > intelligence, I kind of see the watch as something I’ll probably leave on a > desk to gather dust after a month or so of charging it all the time just to > get text notifications, a few haptic pokes from fb or plain getting self > conscious of lifting my arm to ask siri something, of which half the stuff > will be erroneous anyway. There’s far more interesting stuff to do, such as > use that 1600 AUD dollars to buy an extra 64 raspberry 2 mini computers with > which I can apply my knowledge in A.I and do way more cool shit than talk to > my watch for the weather and be its energetic slave, just because people said > its gorgeous looking. Function over form. > > I think I’m off to find a different, less expensive (like a tenth), more > simple and battery efficient health band, the jawbone up 4. > > Really, I wanted to jump on this but in the end my intuition says “fuck it, > not worth the bucks”. > > Cheers, > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
