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  Apple's Steve Wozniak: wearables are just a way to show off Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-29 10:23 +0000
    Re: Apple's Steve Wozniak: wearables are just a way to show off RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-29 18:42 +0000
    Re: Apple's Steve Wozniak: wearables are just a way to show off Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-08-30 21:15 +0100

#4587 — Apple's Steve Wozniak: wearables are just a way to show off

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/29/apple-steve-wozniak-wearables-apple-bluetooth-smartwatch

   The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out against wearable
   technology, slating most smartwatches as no more than smartphone
   accessories that could be relegated to the same category as Bluetooth
   headsets.

   Apple is expected to release its first smartwatch on 9 September in
   California, alongside a new larger iPhone. Samsung and LG released two
   new smartwatches this week, joining a growing number from various
   manufacturers.

   ?I feel that wearables are a hard sell,? Wozniak told technology site
   Cnet. ?They are go-betweens for your smartphone but are an extra piece
   and need special advantages that the smartphone doesn't have, in my
   opinion.?

   ?If they are just a Bluetooth go-between then it could wind up in the
   category of Bluetooth headsets: fun to wear and show off for a day,?
   said Wozniak, describing the derision that Bluetooth hands free voice
   calling headsets suffer and their propensity to be bought and played
   with for a day or two before being abandoned or left for trips in the
   car.

   ...

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#4592

On 2014-08-29, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>    ?I feel that wearables are a hard sell,? Wozniak told technology
>    site Cnet. ?They are go-betweens for your smartphone but are an
>    extra piece and need special advantages that the smartphone doesn't
>    have, in my opinion.?
>
>    ?If they are just a Bluetooth go-between then it could wind up in
>    the category of Bluetooth headsets: fun to wear and show off for a
>    day,?  said Wozniak, describing the derision that Bluetooth hands
>    free voice calling headsets suffer and their propensity to be
>    bought and played with for a day or two before being abandoned or
>    left for trips in the car.


I guess you could take the quote two ways.  I was first going to suggest
it's surprisingly old-fashioned a point of view for him, suggesting he's
gotten out of touch with technology.  But perhaps his point is that
current smartwatches and such aren't actually all that enticing.  And
that point I agree with.

Motorola is about to release a smart watch that looks pretty nice -
hoping to see this technology advance.

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#4604

On 29/08/14 11:23, Rich wrote:
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/29/apple-steve-wozniak-wearables-apple-bluetooth-smartwatch
>
>     The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out against wearable
>     technology, slating most smartwatches as no more than smartphone
>     accessories that could be relegated to the same category as Bluetooth
>     headsets.
>
>     Apple is expected to release its first smartwatch on 9 September in
>     California, alongside a new larger iPhone. Samsung and LG released two
>     new smartwatches this week, joining a growing number from various
>     manufacturers.
>

What's needed is a HW platform for open source license free manufacture.

Straight off the top of my head I can think of quite a few applications 
for smart watches, in security, scheduling, fitness, navigation, 
communication, financial, translation.... where a capable device on the 
wrist would be much more convenient than reaching for the 'phone.

If left to Apple, Samsung and others, then these guys will get carried 
away with the 'show off' fashion statement and not focus on the 
function. And the newspapers will profit on stories of iWatch posh owner 
muggings :(

So stoke up the DIY fire. Make this cheap as $5 digital watches became 
in the eighties. Don't let the nasty big corps monopolise.

A watch case & strap is a very good small size of object for 3D 
printing, an iPod Nano type display and a very low power RISC board 
could be manufactured so cheaply - development board manufacturers in 
china are falling over each other with their own Raspberry Pi wanabee. 
So be original, do this.

This is it, someone's destiny. Not Wozniak's but our geek project.

Yet I can't be arsed to be a kickstarter.

-- 
Adrian C

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