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Wayne Knight posted:nah, this is a step further. they normalized the view that the only valid styles are the ones that they have products for, cobranded with their on screen personalities. If it doesn't look like this it's "dated". They have wrecked some gorgeous homes on that godforsaken channel because they didn't conform to their identity. yes my point is that magazines did this first
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a thought: what if there is no "next big thing" in tech? what if all the ai and ar and vr and connected health and the rest of it just doesn't pan out commercially? because actual business results are pointing that that wayquote:The numbers show a slowdown from last quarter, when Reality Labs lost $4.28 billion on $727 million of revenue. For all of last year, Reality Labs recorded an operating loss of $13.72 billion on $2.16 billion in sales, underscoring how VR and AR technologies have yet to reach the mainstream. quote:Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products and plans to lay off portions of the Halo team. quote:In addition to the death of AltSpaceVR, Microsoft has also culled the entire team behind the popular MRTK framework. MRTK (opens in new tab) is Microsoft's "Mixed Reality Tool Kit," which is a cross-platform framework for spatial anchors in virtual reality spaces. MRTK was built for Unity VR integrations, and works with Meta's headsets with a focus on HoloLens. basically how many of these companies can exist without eternal growth?
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Apr 27, 2023 00:47
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idk, it’s hard to suggest that x won’t work when all the big examples of x by some of those companies have just been priced really high and also not good enough to work. imo that doesn’t mean that the fundamental idea is fatally flawed so much as no one’s figured it out yet (this doesn’t mean that apple will be the one to do it, but i think they have a better chance than most)
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if you stop growing, you whiplash sharply in valuation because the valuation priced in growth and now does not but otherwise capitalism can also milk a decrepit business for literal centuries you can't get investment without growth
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I currently work for a wildly profitable mature business and the market really doesn't like that the solution is, of course, MORE SERVICES REVENUE
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https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1651285866357071874
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qirex posted:a thought: what if there is no "next big thing" in tech? what if all the ai and ar and vr and connected health and the rest of it just doesn't pan out commercially? because actual business results are pointing that that way I’ve been posting about this for awhile now and think we’re at that point. For 40 years the gains we made were based around: computer gets smaller, computer gets cheaper, computer gets faster, computers talk to each other. Now we’ve hit peak small/fast/cheap/chatty and where do we go from here? AR/VR/wearables seem like a bust. Even the Apple Watch and Fitbit and stuff felt more like fads compared to the ubiquity of the smartphone. Crypto is a big decade long scam. Self driving cars are a lot harder than we thought… etc etc Maybe there is something to the chatgpt stuff and that’s the hot new thing, who knows, but one thing I have noticed is that these new frontiers are a lot more technically challenging than the past and aren’t gonna pay off as quickly as we’re used to
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cloud underwater, send scuba gear plz https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1651256663284805635 https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1651351946811305984
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ADINSX posted:I’ve been posting about this for awhile now and think we’re at that point. For 40 years the gains we made were based around: computer gets smaller, computer gets cheaper, computer gets faster, computers talk to each other. Now we’ve hit peak small/fast/cheap/chatty and where do we go from here? i think there's a discussion worth having here but it's hard to suggest that the apple watch is a fad simply because more people have smartphones. i mean they've sold like 200 million of the things i think there's a lot of room for sort of background connectivity / intelligence in the home that we haven't really touched yet mediaphage fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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That’s more than I expected, but will it continue? Will we be wearing smartwatches in 10 years? My wife and I both bought one but no longer wear them (mine gave me anxiety)
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ADINSX posted:That’s more than I expected, but will it continue? Will we be wearing smartwatches in 10 years? My wife and I both bought one but no longer wear them (mine gave me anxiety) like a lot of this sort of thing it all comes down to how you use it. perhaps i'm reaching but was the anxiety from the notifications? i hate notifications and explicitly block them from everything except like imessage, the health app, and one or two other things. definitely no email. it's one reason i haven't gotten an apple watch, though the health features are robust enough it's got me thinking about it. i think smartwatches generally will probably be more ubiquitous in ten years simply because the features of today will probably be available on any $50 junkband
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Chris Knight posted:cloud underwater, send scuba gear plz this guy is a dummy. you always need your poo poo spread across regions, not zones
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speaking of silly tech though did y'all see the "sony reality display" someone at sony built a product that incorporates that 3d wiimote demo from 16 years ago and put it into a 16-inch, $4000 monitor 
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I wear an Apple Watch for the time, weather, health and sleep tracking, and I have all my notifications turned off. a few years ago I actually liked getting texts on my watch now I just want to die quietly
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Yep, the notifications. It was like this final straw for me. I could turn them all off but then what’s the point, I’ll just pull out my phone if I want to check something
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ADINSX posted:Yep, the notifications. It was like this final straw for me. I could turn them all off but then what’s the point, I’ll just pull out my phone if I want to check something well yeah then maybe you're just not a good fit for a smartwatch, which is fine. like i said i like the idea of the health tracking, and being able to control content while exercising, say, could be handy. i'm sure there's a few other dinky little watch apps id prolly use. apple pay would be super handy on my wrist since i still mask in stores.
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I only just discovered that when using airpods with your phone it will spontaneously read new messages to you without prompting I don't receive a lot of messages so I'll see if this is annoying or not. if I did receive a lot I'd probably turn it off immediately
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haveblue posted:I only just discovered that when using airpods with your phone it will spontaneously read new messages to you without prompting yeah that's a setting, when i set siri to french for practice i discovered it. esp because it reads out my so's english texts in a hilarious french accent
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haveblue posted:the allegory of the crave
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mediaphage posted:well yeah then maybe you're just not a good fit for a smartwatch, which is fine. like i said i like the idea of the health tracking, and being able to control content while exercising, say, could be handy. i'm sure there's a few other dinky little watch apps id prolly use. apple pay would be super handy on my wrist since i still mask in stores. I’m probably not. But even still: the smart watch is part of that smaller/cheaper/faster trajectory. Like you said, smart watches will be a commodity when the hardware is ubiquitous. How much smaller cheaper and faster can things get? Home automation is cool and we’ll obviously continue to see all sorts of new products but my response was to qirex’s question “what if there is no next big thing”. Home automation has been around for decades… since the 60s if you count that cool demo from the Seattle worlds fair (they automated a home via telephone commands). If it was going to be the next big thing why hasn’t it taken off yet?
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power consumption/storage are the areas where gains need to be made for stuff like watches to really take off imo. if an apple watch lasted a week it'd be a lot more tempting, even if it does have a stupid screen that should be removed
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ADINSX posted:I’m probably not. But even still: the smart watch is part of that smaller/cheaper/faster trajectory. Like you said, smart watches will be a commodity when the hardware is ubiquitous. How much smaller cheaper and faster can things get? that goes back to what i said earlier. just because something has been around doesn't mean it's been any good during that time. until very recently home automation has been (from a normie pov) stupidly complicated and expensive and hard to understand. each generation of products has made it easier and more useful.
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Achmed Jones posted:power consumption/storage are the areas where gains need to be made for stuff like watches to really take off imo. if an apple watch lasted a week it'd be a lot more tempting, even if it does have a stupid screen that should be removed 95% of customers wouldn't buy one without a screen. just buy a whoop or something i agree though that battery gains need to be made but i expect those will happen over time
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home automation also used to be flaky as hell but has really improved over the years
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it's possible it just isn't useful in as many contexts as i'd like to imagine, but i feel like epaper technology could enable a huge range of novel and handy devices if the screens weren't extremely patent-encumbered and only available in a small range of sizes
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tell me what fitness tracker satisfies the following and i'll buy it: 1. integrates with apple healthy without obnoxious sync apps (fitbit is out) 2. no screen 3. no monthly fee (the rings and it looks like whoop are out) this is a legit request btw, not me being sassy
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yeah, that would be a big change, if we actually got the tech to make pretty much any rigid surface into a low energy display I’ve recently started noticing big box stores using epaper for price cards on shelves, how new is that?
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early 2000s, iirc?
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Internet Janitor posted:it's possible it just isn't useful in as many contexts as i'd like to imagine, but i feel like epaper technology could enable a huge range of novel and handy devices if the screens weren't extremely patent-encumbered and only available in a small range of sizes there are e-ink displays in all sorts of sizes these days - my local grocery has replaced all of their price tags in the entire store with three colour (white/black/red) e-ink displays. you can also get them in phone screen sizes, tablet sizes, monitor sizes, and they recently came out with like a wall poster sized version
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bob dobbs is dead posted:early 2000s, iirc? there's no way there were common e-ink price tags in the early 2000s, surely? it wasn't even invented as a technology until 1997
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im talking prototypes yeah. first commercial b2c displays was late 2000s but b2b can do shittier deals and be more expensive
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Achmed Jones posted:tell me what fitness tracker satisfies the following and i'll buy it: don't the misfit trackers work with the apple health stuff? i've never used one but they've been around for a few years now (their gimmick has always been a screenless design)
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never heard of em, but i'll have a look. thanks!  e: quote:In 2019 or early 2020 Fossil Group discontinued production of all existing Misfit products and shutdown the website pending relaunch lol dangit Achmed Jones fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:im talking prototypes yeah. first commercial b2c displays was late 2000s but b2b can do shittier deals and be more expensive the first real shipping products with e-ink were things like the sony reader in 2004 i think? the earlier shelf label stuff used lcd, not e-ink, those are newer than that nobody means prototypes when they ask about when something became a thing imo
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ADINSX posted:I’ve been posting about this for awhile now and think we’re at that point. For 40 years the gains we made were based around: computer gets smaller, computer gets cheaper, computer gets faster, computers talk to each other. Now we’ve hit peak small/fast/cheap/chatty and where do we go from here? honestly the problem is not that we have nowhere to go, it’s that people in our current society can’t go much further. in almost every business, there are critical business processes that are performed in extremely inefficient ways. many companies have excel spreadsheets that, if not maintained, mean you go into oh poo poo money is not being moved mode. these could unilaterally be improved by solid software dev today, but politics and people dictate that they won’t. I think the last 30 years showed how much low hanging fruit there was to collect, productivity-wise, but going farther will require buy in from a bunch of incompetent e-mail job types and that trend is not likely to change soon. unless the lead poisoned boomer retirement trend really takes root maybe edit: thus, salesforce. also the legion outsourced development that is garbage. and lots of places with decent talent, but a necrotic management that won’t let them fix it, etc Enderzero fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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