The Apple Watch Experience may remind syntactically of Hendrix and enjoy the epiphany as it's the last one with this bit of over-tech even Lexus couldn't match. (Apple: Apple Watch)
Example:
You won’t just see and respond to messages, calls, and notifications easily and intuitively. You’ll actually feel them. With Apple Watch, every exchange is less about reading words on a screen. And more about making a genuine connection.
Example:
You won’t just see and respond to messages, calls, and notifications easily and intuitively. You’ll actually feel them. With Apple Watch, every exchange is less about reading words on a screen. And more about making a genuine connection.
Making a genuine connection with someone is wearing a watch and typing at them with a toothpick. In Washington, that is likely true but, out here in the real world, that's pretentious crap. If you remember how Apple how tech writers presented concisely and accurately, hold the thought as the write-up on the Apple Watch is nothing like that.
Another example:
Tap one to send a message, make a call, or reach out in one of the new ways only Apple Watch makes possible.
In fact, the Lexus could be the most apt comparison for an Apple Watch in terms of being substantially over-priced and a false value based solely on the pretentiousness of those who buy them. Out there in the real world, a watch is still a watch and a car is still a car.
I mentioned the Apple Watch to a Greek friend. He asked, "Will it help me find where to catch octopus?"
Regrettably, I had to tell him likely it could not. He shrugged and walked away, presumably to look for some octopi.
(You may think you like eating octopus ... but it is nothing like as much as Greeks like to eat it. Unlike Washington, when Greeks want to eat suckers, they catch them underwater.)
This device really isn't an Apple Watch so much as the world's smallest iPad and they mention the 'elegant simplicity' of the watch face but I'm not quite getting why their 'elegant simplicity' looks very much like a clusterfuck to me. This is not the Apple I once knew. There was a time when only Microsoft could manage that kind of ugly into a design.
The Apple Watch works in-concert with your Apple iPhone. But say there, Dagwood, if someone has got the iPhone then why does this person need the Watch as usually only the Pentagon blows money over and over for something it's already got. Who cares if the Apple Watch sends texts; does the iPhone sort cabbage during this time.
The technology didn't impress as anyone who needs that kind of technology has probably already got it.
Other stuff they might have used:
Apple Watch - It's not just a watch, it's a watch with a subscription.
The above may not be fair. I don't know what the Apple Watch will do if there is no iPhone to (cough) hold its hands but 3G, 4G, or so costs money for access. Yah, a watch with rent. That was a good idea, wasn't it.
I already have a Mouse and a Chicken. I doubt I have a need for an Apple Watch.
The Mouse and a Chicken make for an oh-so-clever segue to "Abandoning Paradise" as they have found their way into the book. I've been "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" for five years or so and my watch was stolen some years ago. I have no doubt the regulars can guess who has got it. In any case, if ever there were an example of going on the road with a Mouse and a Chicken, the Greece to Scotland scooter run has got to be it.
The text is changing through the first three chapters to make the story more personal and hopefully live. Picture are being added constantly as are embedded videos. That may conjure an image of something as cluttered as the face of an Apple Watch ... but that's what I'm trying to avoid. For example, I thought for some while about including the video for "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" but that was over-think as that's precisely what I was doing. There's nothing I ever did that exemplified it better. Here's the "Leaving Greece" segment. (It runs a bit long as this was written while floating about on the Adriatic with no WiFi)
Tap one to send a message, make a call, or reach out in one of the new ways only Apple Watch makes possible.
Put those examples together and we see the Apple Watch is for people who 'reach out' instead of talking to you, meeting you, or in general doing any of the things humans actually do. Reach out ... to a Lexus dealer. When you buy a car you will get your choice of a microwave oven or an Apple Watch.
In fact, the Lexus could be the most apt comparison for an Apple Watch in terms of being substantially over-priced and a false value based solely on the pretentiousness of those who buy them. Out there in the real world, a watch is still a watch and a car is still a car.
I mentioned the Apple Watch to a Greek friend. He asked, "Will it help me find where to catch octopus?"
Regrettably, I had to tell him likely it could not. He shrugged and walked away, presumably to look for some octopi.
(You may think you like eating octopus ... but it is nothing like as much as Greeks like to eat it. Unlike Washington, when Greeks want to eat suckers, they catch them underwater.)
This device really isn't an Apple Watch so much as the world's smallest iPad and they mention the 'elegant simplicity' of the watch face but I'm not quite getting why their 'elegant simplicity' looks very much like a clusterfuck to me. This is not the Apple I once knew. There was a time when only Microsoft could manage that kind of ugly into a design.
The Apple Watch works in-concert with your Apple iPhone. But say there, Dagwood, if someone has got the iPhone then why does this person need the Watch as usually only the Pentagon blows money over and over for something it's already got. Who cares if the Apple Watch sends texts; does the iPhone sort cabbage during this time.
The technology didn't impress as anyone who needs that kind of technology has probably already got it.
Other stuff they might have used:
Apple Watch - It's not just a watch, it's a watch with a subscription.
The above may not be fair. I don't know what the Apple Watch will do if there is no iPhone to (cough) hold its hands but 3G, 4G, or so costs money for access. Yah, a watch with rent. That was a good idea, wasn't it.
I already have a Mouse and a Chicken. I doubt I have a need for an Apple Watch.
The Mouse and a Chicken make for an oh-so-clever segue to "Abandoning Paradise" as they have found their way into the book. I've been "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" for five years or so and my watch was stolen some years ago. I have no doubt the regulars can guess who has got it. In any case, if ever there were an example of going on the road with a Mouse and a Chicken, the Greece to Scotland scooter run has got to be it.
The text is changing through the first three chapters to make the story more personal and hopefully live. Picture are being added constantly as are embedded videos. That may conjure an image of something as cluttered as the face of an Apple Watch ... but that's what I'm trying to avoid. For example, I thought for some while about including the video for "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" but that was over-think as that's precisely what I was doing. There's nothing I ever did that exemplified it better. Here's the "Leaving Greece" segment. (It runs a bit long as this was written while floating about on the Adriatic with no WiFi)
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