Apple is pushing theApple Watch and its flashy new updatesabout as firmly as it perchance can , but still : no one seems to care . Judged against other watches , its sales are hefty , but judge against other cornerstone Apple products , theApple Watch is a flop .
It ’s not hard to see why . The $ 300 Watch plays no obvious or essential purpose in our liveliness , and it never will . Douchey , spare , expensive , unnecessary – call it what you will , but do n’t call it peanut .
The Apple Watch today is like a gradation school John Lennon fiddle around in euphony class with the key of a pianissimo . The air may not be pretty now , but there is stupefying potential to mature into something great . slow sales and public disinterest aside , the Apple Watch is the decisive half - footstep that leads to the Next Big affair : a breakthrough technology that will wholly change the way of life we interact with our devices .
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The Apple Watch is the next… PalmPilot?
recall the PalmPilot ? If you were born before 1990 , you probably hark back them as the futuristic equipment your ally ’s “ cool ” dad used . They were a giant leap onward for handheld computing , but like the Apple Watch , these “ personal digital assistants ” never found their tread .
At $ 399 a pop in 1997 , the PalmPilot was a clumsy , glowing sack calendar and portable rolodex that had to be recharged every few hours . Even as updated models evolved to incorporate connectivity with the early web , PalmPilots never quite lost their status as a gratuitous luxury item used only by the tech - savvy corporate band .
So they fail . But do you bang what that awkward PalmPilot flower into ? Only the most important consumer technology of all time : the smartphone . And the Apple Watch is in the precise same sauceboat – it ’s not going to be the thing that revolutionizes our personal technology , but it sure looks like the thing that leads to the next exciting leap forward .
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It’s not hard to see where the Apple Watch is taking us, and it’s actually really cool
The Apple Watch ’s raison d’être is to reduce the time you expend tapping or staring at your phone concealment . It empowers you to stick around connected to the most authoritative , useful features of your iPhone , without having to suffer the inconvenience of in reality taking it out of your pocket . affair is , that ’s such a minor vantage at this point , it ’s tough to convince people to drop $ 300 for it .
Yet it ’s this same construct of comfort station that has chop-chop spurred technical school groundbreaker to make ecosystems of connected devices that will streamline nearly every scene of our lives . How about a coffee machine that starts brew a fresh pot the moment it recognizes you ’ve woken up ? Or a thermostat that automatically adjust to an optimum temperature when it sense you ’re on your way home ? Or Sonos speakers that start pelt Enya when your stress levels are escalated ?
These ware are inevitable , hell , they might even exist already . The less effort we must put into operating our future interconnected internet of things , the better . They should be actuate without having to relate a screen or voyage a menu . What the Apple Watch does now to assist run away our iPhone , a future looping will do to help run our day-by-day life – becoming a worthwhile and necessary appliance unto itself .
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In the meantime, it’s slowly normalizing the wearable
Just as the PalmPilot familiarized us with a barrage fire - powered , hand - held twist that aid you prepare your living , the Apple Watch – along with the Fitbit – is doing its part to normalize the still - mildly - disconcerting process of strapping a overbold gadget onto your consistency . It ’s a vault that unlocks the doorway to mass - espousal of something similar and more advanced down the road – that thing that allows you to seamlessly interact with all the other engineering in your ecosystem .
By the way , it might not even look like a spotter . There ’s anactivity - tracking , vital sign - reading , augmented reality - changing contact lens lensthat may be coming down the superhighway . It ’s hard to imagine the masses jumping direct from a smartphone to a terrifying eye - implant that look like something out ofMinority Report . Baby steps .
Progress can be… awkward
Who knows when the Apple Watch will unite rank with the other retreat , disused technical school failure we get a kick out of memory – a full decade passed between the first PalmPilot and the morning of the smartphone . But while the Watch may be the least cool matter at the Apple Store , it ’s arguably the most fascinating , and the most crucial : it ’s that affair that reverse into the other thing that you will , eventually , be lining up to buy .
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