silentscope

If it gives a good ballpark estimate it's a game changer for these platforms.

> is everything but geeky

I'm a nerd, and I'm sorry to be crude but NERD ALERT. A smart watch today starts at Geeky and works, laboring and awkwardly, towards generally acceptable.

If you think a smart watch by any manufacturer, at this early point, is everything but geeky you gotta get out of the office.

"all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen." - John le Carre

This is when the really scrappy innovators, the lifeblood of the valley, head elsewhere.

Why is this "hacking"? Using this word in lieu of more suitable words like innovating, variating, changing, or adapting (for starters) devalues the word's meaning and makes light of English's amazingly diverse buffet of vocabulary and rather expansive etymological roots.

I wonder if this article will be removed...

Well color me schooled. Still, I've always had the impression from interviews (just an impression mind you), that it was a dream of his to have a working tablet, but the tech wasn't there. He was thinking about it is the sense I got, but I could be off.

I don't want to stir up bad blood, I'm just making a point so don't kill me =).

Almost every one of those devices has at least 5 buttons (up, down, left, right center). That's not simple at all. One button is simple. The touch screen on the iphone takes those away so only one is needed. It's the reason the iphone got so dominant--it worked.

It's the reason Jobs realized his foray into tableting in the 90s (with development starting in 1987, the first being released in 1993!), the Newton, sucked. He killed it when he realized it wasn't working. The tech wasn't there, when it was, he moved.

I know people hate apple, but they need to look at this objectively. this wasn't apples first rodeo--they helped write the book on the PDA market. They're also not suing palm or Visor or HP. Those companies didn't reiterate. Apple did.

If you wanna hate, hate being judged by a jury of your peers (you probably shouldn't do that), or our current patent system. And drink some tea or something.

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