Apple Announces iCar at San Francisco Event

[Agschmid]

Just kidding... Well maybe?

Waiting On The Watch: Apple’s Unprecedented Moment

The Apple Watch launch, set for Monday at 10 a.m. PT, is fraught with expectation and desire in a way no other new product from the company ever has been before.

There's a fascinating moment in the New Yorker's recent profile of Jonathan Ive. On the cusp of the Apple Watch announcement, he describes the odd sensation of the before-and-after moment, when everything changes:

He spoke of soon arriving at "this rarest of times—when we're done, and we get to talk about it." He added, "It's pretty strange. Where we're standing, right now, we haven't talked about it, and we can stand here in a couple of hours, and millions and millions of people will know." He went on, "You go from something that you feel very protective of, and you feel great ownership of, and suddenly it's not yours anymore, and it's everybody else's. And it's a very—I think the word 'traumatic' is probably overstated, but it's a really significant point in time." He smiled. "These are very poignant points in time. It's so digital. It's so binary."

This in-between moment is the moment we are all living in now. The Apple Watch was announced, but none of us (outside of Apple at least) has experienced it. Right now, we are all in Jony Ive's waiting room. This is something unique. Maybe even something to savor: the world as it is, not as it will be.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/and-now-for-something-completely-different

[RedstDem]

1. first thing that came to my mind was

Oh noes, not more Chinese crap.
Then I saw, the just kidding.

[NightWatcher]

2. Not to be outdone, Windows releasing a car as well

Sure, it'll suck, having to pull over every ten minutes to reboot and install updates, but I can't wait to get my hands on an Acer Sedan.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. And despite its problems, it will still be easier to use than the Apple car.

[NightWatcher]

4. and the Linux nerds will tell us both how stupid we are

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Hah!

[hunter]

6. I'm a Linux nerd and I don't think I've ever called anyone stupid.

My wife and kids are all smarter than I am and they use Windows.^TM

Part of it's because that's what they use at work.

I can use any software I please. I won't muck about with Windows unless somebody is paying me. I won't muck around with Apple^TM stuff at all.

I drive a very nerdy thirty year old car. I like the car because there's no software in it. It has crank down windows too.