It’s crazy how far software has come in 25 years.

Where will we be in 25 more?

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There has been a bit of consternation about Apple’s focus on “fashion” and all that entails, but there is a very practical aspect to this focus: people need to be willing to actually put the wearable on their body. While “form may follow function” for tools, the priorities are the exact opposite when it comes to what we wear: function is irrelevant without a form we find appealing. In this case, design actually is how it looks.

It’s on this point specifically that most critics – including myself – have failed to appreciate Apple’s approach. After last fall’s presentation I compared the Watch’s introduction to that of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad and found it lacking for its lack of focus on functionality. What I now appreciate, though, is that this was almost certainly on purpose: there was focus in that keynote, it just happened to be on the Watch’s appearance; since I’m a geek I dismissed it, but normal consumers, especially in the case of a wearable, absolutely will not.

—Ben Thompson, How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market

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—James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem

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There’s been a lot of piling on about daylight saving time. So much so that it’s become a twice yearly ritual to point out that it’s an outdated, unnecessary, and even dangerous practice. Washington, Oregon, and Alaska have all had state lawmakers introduce bills to abolish daylight saving time in their respective states. There will probably be more as it’s an easy and painless issue for our craven politicians to get behind. Fine. I have no problem with that. With one caveat…

Many years ago, back when I was working as a bartender in New York City, I used to get out of work sometime after 4 in the morning. Around the summer solstice, there would already be a hint of blue in the sky at last call. And this was during daylight saving time. Without daylight saving, the lightening would have started well before closing time, with the actual sunrise occurring around 4:30. Ugh. If we’re going to abolish shifting our clocks around, how about we stick with having them an hour ahead, and leave it at that? That way, during the winter, the sun will set at 5pm instead of 4pm in New York, and there will still be a lovely glow in the sky at 9pm in the summer.

Taken from xkcd

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How well can people recall the Apple logo from memory?

Not well:

Taken from Taylor & Francis

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Apparently the people at Pebble were ‘trolling’ Apple on Twitter while the Apple Keynote was happening.

Unlike BGR, it looks a little desperate to me, not hilarious.

Especially considering how Pebble stooped to Samsung-ing Apple’s product designs on Kickstarter.

This week Michael and Bryan discuss “Bryan” and “Brian”, toilet seats, Bryan’s personal movie awards at missiletest.com, the Apple Watch, Bryan’s distaste for Safari on his iPad, the criteria for an Apple “flop” versus an Apple “success”, iPhone notifications, Game Center, the suckiness of Facebook, Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna and space exploration.

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If you’re sufficiently pessimistic about new opportunities, it probably pays to stop driving around. Opportunity is often where you decide it is.

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