If you think that tethering the Apple Watch to your iPhone is a downside I cant imagine how do feel having your iPhone been "tethered" to a mobile operator and data plan to do what it is doing. Without a data plan, your iPhone is basicly an iPod with a camera, since you cant do anything (browsing, mailing, chating, etc.).
I don't have the mobile carrier's services in my pocket with me every day. But to use an Apple Watch on the go with all it's features, you need your iPhone in close proximity. Basically if you want full watch functionality, you need your iPhone with too. And that's the point I was making.
Keep in mind that practically EVERYBODY said the same thing about the iPad.
Not everyone. I loved the idea of the iPad from day 1. I only bought a 4th Gen one as I didn't have a need for one earlier. But I really saw the iPad's potential from the get go. The iPad Mini I hated and still do not like as a product. But it's there and it makes Apple profits.
All the people who spend $1K to over $2K to browse the Internet and read email would be a good counter argument. When iPod was new, I heard a salesperson tell a customer it would get them dates. Watch is very much going to satisfy a want. I hope it can do more than is apparent now. I like gadgets and I want it but not for the price. The fashion aspect does not fill the gap for me. Maybe in the future the want will trump the spend. Not now.
Apple make these people believe their $1k-$2k machine is the best way to browse the internet. Before the iPad Apple was still advertising Safari as the best internet browsing experience and people believed they needed this and bought their Macs.
I agree with you though that the Apple Watch at the moment is satisfying wants. Apple has not given us an way to believe we need it. In the future this will come though as you say.
I sincerely hope not. I believe that Ive and Jobs were symbiotic. Steve's absence shows how inferior Ive is when he's on his own, like the musician that leaves his band and makes a solo album that is not as good as the band's material.
I can't wait for him to be replaced.
Particularly on the software-design side of things.
But it won't happen. Sadly (at least for me).
In my opinion iOS7 disagrees with you. I think it was so much better than what Forstall put out.
In a way I agree with you. I've idea creating process has not changed since the passing of Jobs. What Jobs did was basically tell everyone what the good ideas were and what the **** ones were. Even Ive had bad ideas in the past. Were many of them made into retail products we bought? No. And the reason is Jobs nipped them all in the butt before the bad ideas became products. Now there is no Jobs to nip all the bad ideas in the butt. I don't think Cook is capable of doing this. I do not think it's Cook's area of expertise. Cook is the supply management genius. And this does worry me in the longer term. As I feel the Apple Watch is the last Apple product that had beginnings while Jobs was alive.
I agree. The important part is the intention of the product. You use an iPhone/iPad for many of the same purposes as a PC.
But I believe Steve was making a more accurate distinction: that limited products like the iPad could cover most of the tasks PCs are used for, hence the comparison to cars vs trucks. Steve was being specific; the PC is a truck. So while they're both transportation machines, and you can do similar things with them, they do not replace each other.
I don't think Steve meant to imply that "Post-PC" meant PCs are no longer necessary at all. I think he meant that now the majority of users weren't forced to have them in order to perform the tasks he perceived to be typical in PC use: Email, photos, video, music, web-browsing.
I could go on a trip and only use my phone now for things that used to require a PC, hence the "Post-PC" era.
I agree with you, and I have seen the truck analogy Jobs used, I watched that keynote. Jobs was referring to the PC as what we used to call a traditional PC, as in desktops. And under that frame of mind he was totally correct. He saw PCs as desktops vs everything else. I am talking about PCs as all PCs. I guess both of us are right but it's all depending on our different points of view.
"I could go on a trip and
only use my phone now for things that used to require a
Desktop PC, hence the "Post -
Desktop PC" era.
I quoted one line from what you said and added one word in. I think what you are saying is correct about desktop PCs. But I really think in 50 years (or maybe less) what we call a PC will not be a desktop. They will be the trucks people do not use on a daily basis anymore, unless for a specific job.
I believe we have a "post desktop PC era" but not a post PC era. I think the PC itself will always be there, just what we refer to as our most used PC will change.
Ive is the most over rated designer in the world.
White. Thin.
Big freaking deal.
No attention to ergonomics and dumbing down the internals just to make it as thin as possible is getting REALLY old.
Personally I would love to see him take a hike
His products make Apple billions of dollars. I think that proves you wrong.
There's a great clip of Steve Jobs saying they're not PCs. Just because something has a microprocessor inside does not make it a PC. He had a point - if a fridge had a microprocessor inside would you call that a PC?
Jobs was referring to the desktop PC there and how it's a truck that we will not always use every day in the future but it will still be needed by a portion of the community. That's totally different to the idea that phones and tablets are PCs also, just a PC in a different form.
How long will this go on for?! Apple will eventually fade away, but I hope between now and then we won't have
'Post-Ive, they're in trouble'
'Post-Tim, they're in trouble'
'Post-Eddy, they're in trouble'
Etc etc.
Not sure if that's sarcasm or not. But the Apple University exists to prevent exactly what you are talking about.
is a good read.
