One thing you're wrong when you compare the watch with phone and computer but forget about the competitors. iPhone and Macbook battery lives are either on par or exceed industry standard or competitors' products. Watch is a different story. If android stops making junks but starts to make decent watches with a week or longer battery life, I don't see Apple will stay at 18 hrs. Currently, android watches probably have 2 days or less on 1 full charge.
Apple has defined the current smallest form factor at 38 mm and the battery life at 18-24 hour usage pattern. Let's call the generation one the "Classic". For a generation two "Classic", I would think that a 24 hour usage pattern or higher performance at 18 hour would be baked in with the same volume battery, with a few added sensors.
I don't disagree that Android Wearables has already and will continue to beat the Apple Watch in battery life, performance and features, not necessarily in a single device, but the penalty will be bulk and weight, easily mitigated with a wide range of wearable configurations, though not nearly as profitable as the Apple Watch will be.
For Apple, I would see a fitness band at year two added, thinner and with less volume than the 38 mm watch, with the 18 hour battery usage pattern, but bettering the "Classic" performance and sensors. Of course the "Classic" will evolve to different materials and some styling changes, but will be recognizable as a lineage.
The big question would be whether and when Apple derives a second definition of the Apple Watch that doesn't look to follow the "Classic" Apple Watch styling. Perhaps as Mac_128 would desire, an entirely different face definition that the current rectangular configuration.
The fact that the words "very unique" were allowed to be in the title of the article is a glaring example of fail on the editor's part. The word unique is an absolute. Either something is unique or it isn't. There aren't varying degrees of unique.
The fact that the words "very unique" were allowed to be in the title of the article is a glaring example of fail on the editor's part. The word unique is an absolute. Either something is unique or it isn't. There aren't varying degrees of unique.
I would beg to differ. Something could be unique and exceptional, or unique and ordinary.
I am unique as a person, but likely quite ordinary looking. Certainly there are people who are unique and quite extraordinary looking, such as persons with albino skin color.
I would find Black Swans unique and extraordinary.
I would find that a "very" as a modifier of "unique" in a conversation would be an alert to something out of an "ordinary" context to follow. Of course, popular modifiers tend to get overused in conversation, with the result that the impact is muted.
Now would be a good time to state how I loathe the word "gorgeous" in the context of some newly arrived technological trinket. It has become meaningless from overuse.
With respect to the author of the article and the editors of Apple Insider, the headline terming the watch components "very unique" implies you all need to return to grade school. Something that's unique is "one of a kind," therefore modifying the word "unique" with the adverb "very" creates a ridiculous description.
I would beg to differ. Something could be ... unique and ordinary.
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No, no, no, it can't.
unique |yo??n?k|
adjective
being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else : the situation was unique in modern politics | original and unique designs.
• particularly remarkable, special, or unusual : a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet.
• [ predic. ] ( unique to) belonging or connected to (one particular person, group, or place) : a style of architecture that is unique to Portugal.
"Many authors of usage guides, editors, teachers, and others feel stronglythat such “absolute” words as complete, equal, perfect, and especiallyunique cannot be compared because of their “meaning”: a word thatdenotes an absolute condition cannot be described as denoting more orless than that absolute condition. However, all such words have undergonesemantic development and are used in a number of senses, some of whichcan be compared by words like more, very, most, absolutely, somewhat,and totally and some of which cannot.
The earliest meanings of unique when it entered English around thebeginning of the 17th century were “single, sole” and “having no equal.”By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “nottypical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared: Thefoliage on the late-blooming plants is more unique than that on the earliervarieties.The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are notabsolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing."
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No, no, no, it can't.
unique |yo??n?k|
adjective
being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else : the situation was unique in modern politics | original and unique designs.
• particularly remarkable, special, or unusual : a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet.
• [ predic. ] ( unique to) belonging or connected to (one particular person, group, or place) : a style of architecture that is unique to Portugal.
The English language is full of words. You don't need to break grammatical rules in order to communicate what you mean. That said, a Google search for the quoted phrase "very unique" returns 19,700,000 hits so it is indeed commonly used, however that doesn't make very correct.
"unique" returns 1,670,000,000 hits, so 'very unique' is only 1% of the usage overall (on google). far from common.
The English language is full of words. You don't need to break grammatical rules in order to communicate what you mean. That said, a Google search for the quoted phrase "very unique" returns 19,700,000 hits so it is indeed commonly used, however that doesn't make very correct.
I love those miss uses, I can almost seem my English teacher's face back in Grammar School going black with rage ... very unique, quite dead, almost pregnant ... lol
That said, looking something up on Google is about as reliable as asking around at the local pub for answers these days. Have you checked up on how easy it is to make a perpetual engine recently? No, I don't mean the breakthroughs happening in quantum mechanics. I am talking good old stuff from your local hardware store. All you need is a large electrolysis set up creating hydrogen which you feed to the fuel intake in the car engine, then power this all from the car battery! ... If it is on Google it must be true so damn the laws of thermodynamics
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One thing you're wrong when you compare the watch with phone and computer but forget about the competitors. iPhone and Macbook battery lives are either on par or exceed industry standard or competitors' products. Watch is a different story. If android stops making junks but starts to make decent watches with a week or longer battery life, I don't see Apple will stay at 18 hrs. Currently, android watches probably have 2 days or less on 1 full charge.
Apple has defined the current smallest form factor at 38 mm and the battery life at 18-24 hour usage pattern. Let's call the generation one the "Classic". For a generation two "Classic", I would think that a 24 hour usage pattern or higher performance at 18 hour would be baked in with the same volume battery, with a few added sensors.
I don't disagree that Android Wearables has already and will continue to beat the Apple Watch in battery life, performance and features, not necessarily in a single device, but the penalty will be bulk and weight, easily mitigated with a wide range of wearable configurations, though not nearly as profitable as the Apple Watch will be.
For Apple, I would see a fitness band at year two added, thinner and with less volume than the 38 mm watch, with the 18 hour battery usage pattern, but bettering the "Classic" performance and sensors. Of course the "Classic" will evolve to different materials and some styling changes, but will be recognizable as a lineage.
The big question would be whether and when Apple derives a second definition of the Apple Watch that doesn't look to follow the "Classic" Apple Watch styling. Perhaps as Mac_128 would desire, an entirely different face definition that the current rectangular configuration.
The fact that the words "very unique" were allowed to be in the title of the article is a glaring example of fail on the editor's part. The word unique is an absolute. Either something is unique or it isn't. There aren't varying degrees of unique.
The fact that the words "very unique" were allowed to be in the title of the article is a glaring example of fail on the editor's part. The word unique is an absolute. Either something is unique or it isn't. There aren't varying degrees of unique.
I would beg to differ. Something could be unique and exceptional, or unique and ordinary.
I am unique as a person, but likely quite ordinary looking. Certainly there are people who are unique and quite extraordinary looking, such as persons with albino skin color.
I would find Black Swans unique and extraordinary.
I would find that a "very" as a modifier of "unique" in a conversation would be an alert to something out of an "ordinary" context to follow. Of course, popular modifiers tend to get overused in conversation, with the result that the impact is muted.
Now would be a good time to state how I loathe the word "gorgeous" in the context of some newly arrived technological trinket. It has become meaningless from overuse.
unique |yo??n?k|
adjective
being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else : the situation was unique in modern politics | original and unique designs.
• particularly remarkable, special, or unusual : a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet.
• [ predic. ] ( unique to) belonging or connected to (one particular person, group, or place) : a style of architecture that is unique to Portugal.
Source: OS X Dictionary
The earliest meanings of unique when it entered English around thebeginning of the 17th century were “single, sole” and “having no equal.”By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “nottypical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared: Thefoliage on the late-blooming plants is more unique than that on the earliervarieties.The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are notabsolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing."
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No, no, no, it can't.
unique |yo??n?k|
adjective
being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else : the situation was unique in modern politics | original and unique designs.
• particularly remarkable, special, or unusual : a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet.
• [ predic. ] ( unique to) belonging or connected to (one particular person, group, or place) : a style of architecture that is unique to Portugal.
Source: OS X Dictionary
unique
[yoo-neek]
adjective
noun
6. the embodiment of unique characteristics; the only specimen of a given kind: The unique is also the improbable.
The English language is full of words. You don't need to break grammatical rules in order to communicate what you mean. That said, a Google search for the quoted phrase "very unique" returns 19,700,000 hits so it is indeed commonly used, however that doesn't make very correct.
"unique" returns 1,670,000,000 hits, so 'very unique' is only 1% of the usage overall (on google). far from common.
I love those miss uses, I can almost seem my English teacher's face back in Grammar School going black with rage ... very unique, quite dead, almost pregnant ... lol
That said, looking something up on Google is about as reliable as asking around at the local pub for answers these days. Have you checked up on how easy it is to make a perpetual engine recently? No, I don't mean the breakthroughs happening in quantum mechanics. I am talking good old stuff from your local hardware store. All you need is a large electrolysis set up creating hydrogen which you feed to the fuel intake in the car engine, then power this all from the car battery! ... If it is on Google it must be true so damn the laws of thermodynamics
buy something when youll get value from it, because there will always be improvements. until youre dead.
Until Moore's Law runs out... :-)
You posted the usage notes from Dictionary.com? OK. I'll post the definition on Dictionary.com:
unique
[yoo-neek]
adjective
noun
6. the embodiment of unique characteristics; the only specimen of a given kind: The unique is also the improbable.
Umm... definition #5 that you posted seems to indivate that "very unique" is acceptable. What were you trying to prove?