You might be right. How odd to adjust the scale to make them the same height though...
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You might be right. How odd to adjust the scale to make them the same height though...
Not 100% on a couple but I counted 28 (i counted the IBM thinkpad and 5150, but in reality they were work provided). If I counted how many of each I have owned, the number would be much higher. Starting with the 8 iphones I have purchased!
The problem is that TV is an industry. What specific gadget in the TV industry stands out as having a big impact? Some specific model of RCA or Magnavox? Nope. None (except the Trinitron listed.)
At least with telephones, one has the Western Union dial, and the Regency radio for transistors.
The killer app with VR right now is video games. I've heard only great things about it.
I know a few people with Apple Watch. Reactions range from "It's better than the competition" to "Useless". Beating the competition is a very low bar in the category, because everyone is useless. Apple's useless product is a bit more polished than the rest, but that doesn't make it useful.
If Tesla was content with only making the S and X at the current volumes, they'd be turning a profit just fine (that's why they have turned a profit in some quarters). They don't turn a profit every quarter yet because they're still heavily investing. Somehow they need to go from making 50K cars last year to 500K cars in 2 years. That's going to require a lot of money being invested in new facilities.
At some point, Tesla will begin plateauing and won't need to invest so heavily - they'll already have enough factories, they'll just need to maintain and update their factories. At that point, they should be consistently profitable.
Yeah, most of that stuff would be iterative, not revolutionary. VR support would be a revolution if Apple did it first. At this point, it's just catch up. Apple can only claim to be the first to do something right if nobody else has done something right yet. VR appears to have been done properly already.
Mine could have technically included the iPhone since I have purchased them for my wife and daughter. Never for me though. If Tim follows through with the suggestion that it might one day have the ability to choose default apps... there could be a first.
Exactly what I was thinking. The scaling makes them look about 10 percent smaller, which lines up with the actual difference in size between the two. Also note the antenna bands look thinner, as do the camera and flash.
i agree. i think the next round of life changing gadgets will happen when battery tech makes a giant leap.
Fire should be #1. The real "burning wood" kind, not The Amazon Product Currently Named For Fire.
Boxed matches should be #2. For producing fire (#1).
I suspect boxed matches, or any kind of easily carried ignition source, was ignored because no one uses them any more, and the idea of carrying a piece of flint and pyrite and a tinderbox is much too far in the past.
There's also all them new-fangled pocket lighters the young whippersnappers like so much. Oh, and defective iPhone batteries.
Boxed matches should be #2. For producing fire (#1).
I suspect boxed matches, or any kind of easily carried ignition source, was ignored because no one uses them any more, and the idea of carrying a piece of flint and pyrite and a tinderbox is much too far in the past.
There's also all them new-fangled pocket lighters the young whippersnappers like so much. Oh, and defective iPhone batteries.
Just watched the iBook keynote for the memories. Steve was so proud of the iBook. Apple has put just the best of the best parts they could get. It had the best GFX, faster than anything you could get on the market in a portable at that time. The best display they could get. The best keyboard, the best connectivity. Man, I miss the Apple of Steve. Now they are milking the customers with outdated iThings. They should take a look at those keynotes every once in a while and remember what Apple stood for. Being the best.
Seeing that keynote made me sad. Missing Steve and missing Apple of then...
Seeing that keynote made me sad. Missing Steve and missing Apple of then...
It makes me laugh when people think Apple isn't releasing revolutionary products fast enough. Name one other company with a similar track record. You can't. The stock market has proved people have utterly irrational expectations. I expect Apple to release a new category device every decade or so. That's my expectation
These lists always cause debate and they should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Yes iPhone is great but of all time?
What's a gadget??
I'd say book, reading glasses, glass even
If it's gadgets then Sinclsir ZX81 should be there
These ranking are more to do with the educational and age of the editors at Time currently. The iPhone is a great invention, but also borrowed lots of features / ideas
While I think of my journey , the Nokia 5510 was the most impact, the phone that I wanted most was the StarTAC, the iPhone evolved the phone to a new level. Though for me Nokia allowed me to own a mobile phone, they are bullet proof and the batteries lasted a week.
For others I guess the iPhone is thier amazing device
While I think of my journey , the Nokia 5510 was the most impact, the phone that I wanted most was the StarTAC, the iPhone evolved the phone to a new level. Though for me Nokia allowed me to own a mobile phone, they are bullet proof and the batteries lasted a week.
For others I guess the iPhone is thier amazing device
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This image is incredibly sloppy. It is known that objects of equal size would appear different sizes if they are stacked in perspective. This image shows the back pink iPhone standing at a slightly larger height then the one in the very front. Running a ruler across the lines makes it obvious, but even more obvious are the antenna band differences where somehow the phones in the foreground appear slightly off from the others.
This pretty much summarizes how I feel about the way things are going, and the ways people are reacting.
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Agreed, and equally confused
Google Glass is on that list? Really?
Because it was the first consumer-ish, semi-buyable face-mounted wearable? Or because of the potential--never really capitalized on--to be the first mainstream augmented-reality wearable?
Either way, calling it "influential" seems like a bit of a stretch given that its primary influence was demonstrating that if you wear a computer on your face people are going to insult you and kick you out of bars. Well, that, and proving "just because some hardcore technologist says it's cool doesn't mean anybody actually wants it", but I think we already knew that.
Because it was the first consumer-ish, semi-buyable face-mounted wearable? Or because of the potential--never really capitalized on--to be the first mainstream augmented-reality wearable?
Either way, calling it "influential" seems like a bit of a stretch given that its primary influence was demonstrating that if you wear a computer on your face people are going to insult you and kick you out of bars. Well, that, and proving "just because some hardcore technologist says it's cool doesn't mean anybody actually wants it", but I think we already knew that.
If its been done properly already, how come we all don't have VR headsets at home, or on the train, or out and about?
Mobile phones and tablets have been done properly now and we ALL have them.
I think we'll know when VR is done properly because we will ALL have at least one headset in every household. Until then, its anybody game!
More seriously important, to check and send texts while driving a two-ton metal blob at 40-80 mph!
Not really - ask the general public things they can't live without and just watch how often the smartphone gets listed on that list. I think we have to go back as far in time as the automobile's invention in the early 1900s to find a category that has changed lives so profoundly in the way smartphones have done. The iPhone defined what a smartphone should be like and how one interacts with it - Android copied it, Blackberry is dead, and turns out people didn't want a mechanical keyboard after all.