Flick of the wrist

More rumours of a iWatch are circulating.  If such a thing was launched, would it be a success?  I'm not sure it would be.  Younger people don't seem to have grown up wearing a watch.  This is not going to replace all the functionality you have on your smartphone so surely you will still need to carry one of those everywhere you go.  The more I look at this suggested vision of an iWatch the more I think of the bracelets that felons wear whilst on probation.

Oh well, each to their own I suppose.


iWatch rumours (Apple Insider)

Back in the day

Apple 1 (1976) - how far we have come

Fancy owning a piece of computer history?  Are you flush with cash?  Well, you may need to be if you want to own this first of its kind personal computer.  The Apple 1 was lovingly crafted (and autographed) by Steve Wozniak as a practically hand-built device, back in the dim and distant past of 1976.  Check out a copy of the Apple 1 owner's manual.

Personally signed by Wozniak himself

I thought my Sinclair ZX81 was primitive but this takes the biscuit.  Seeing that tape machine brought back horrible memories of trying in vain to load up programs from cassettes, only to get loading errors and having to start all over again. And you try and tell the young people of today that . . . they won't believe you.

Check out this link to see how much one of these Apple 1s sold for last year.   No, I couldn't believe it either.

You even had to make your own case for the Apple 1

Overnight this latest auction has netted a price of $US650,000, according to this BBC news story.  Apparently, only 100 Apple 1s were ever made and there are just 6 known working models left in the world.  What would you  be prepared to pay for one?

Apple 1 up for grabs (Mashable)

Wozniak original fetches $650,000 at auction (BBC)

Apple 1 Microcomputer Museum (youTube)

ZX81 memories

Stewed apple

Eye catching headline from Henry Cooke on Stuff.co.nz

When I see a headline like this I'm always going to read it.  In this instance I see a lot of merit in what Henry Cooke is saying in his article.

Google can do the things that Apple does best - but faster.

I love that he points out how the best search engine, the best map service and many other apps that we take for granted belong to Google, not Apple.

So, even if Apple build in some fab functionality, chances are that in no time at all Google will be doing it too, plus all the mainstay functions we need come from the same stable.

A merciless industry, for sure.

Past its best?

I've often wondered when you basically have only one product in the game, whether this accusation could have some merit . . . . . .

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10872941