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StrangeDays said:

you had 32,000 contacts? how is this possible?

Somewhere I have a screenshot of OS X Address Book with the 32k contacts.

I started digitizing contacts in 1997 with a PalmPilot. I kept every record I ever added. I added business cards of every person I ever met. In the days before LinkedIn, people could ask me who I knew that worked at 'blank' and I could pull up five contacts there, and have an answer from three of them within a couple of hours. Go to a conference, meet a bunch of people, save their cards. Go to a meeting, add cards. There were some duplicates, which sometimes happened with iCloud syncing issues or back in the days of using a SonyEricsson or Nokia phone with iSync. I had five digits by the time I got the first iPhone on July 1 2007. Add a card for every email contact that isn't spam, and you start to see how this adds up.

I regularly crashed every app that wanted access to my contacts for years. I spent some time reporting it as a bug to developers, but eventually gave up - I know when I'm an edge case. (Currently, my iCloud contacts, iPhone contacts, and macOS contacts are out of sync, all signed into the same iCloud account. It's a boring area that doesn't get enough attention, clearly.)

tshapi said:

I find the spin interesting, apple installed a Lte modem in the watch. Would it even pick up non LTE signal? Ie 3G cellular?  

Either its pr spin or its idiot customers who don't know what they are talking about, so they complained not understanding. 

Scenario #1 is T-Mobile tried to Apply android wearable connectivity prices to the series 3.

Scenario #2 is customer complained because they didn't think it was compatible with the series 3. 

I believe it to be customers complaining about being throttled to low speeds. No part of TMO's copy says they're going to deliver incompatible 3G service to an LTE watch. It says they intended to deliver 512kbps throttled data to the watch, for the privilege of paying $10 USD a month.

Customers said 'no' loudly enough that they've reconsidered this.

tulkas said:

Gruber is just trying to help them save face. He knows as well as everyone else that they intended for TouchID to be there. They filed patents. They bough LuxView, they bought up patents from Privaris. All to do scanner under the display. He might be right that it never comes back now, because they never want to admit a mistake so publicly. 

But if you look at how clumsy the gestures are to compensate for removing the home button altogether (instead of adding a virtual button) and these are gestures that have been used and extended for entirely different purposes for years and recently and how clumsy the demo was and think about use cases, then it is pretty apparent, if one is being honest, that this was a concession. 

But that's not what LuxVue was working on at all, was it?

Filing of patents isn't a declaration of intent, it's protecting an invention that may or may not be used. Privaris could have been acquired solely in a defensive stance, so that Apple can hold the patents and have them for when they might be infringed upon by other phone makers. 

christopher126 said: Another example would be the tiny laptops (can't seem to think of the name).

Anyway... great review.

NETBOOOOOOOOOKS!

In 2008-2009, everyone was making a Netbook. The Steve Jobs quote (without looking it up) was something to the effect of, "We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that."

Which isn't exactly the truth, because they did know how to make a $500 dollar computer that wasn't a piece of junk - it was an iPad. But he knew that people wouldn't see iPad as a computer (and they didn't - they saw it as a very large iPod touch, and didn't get the point of it.)

Someone should have advised Hulu to not screw up their app this badly for streaming on demand users. Things like viewing a list of episodes in a series are 5 interactions from the top level. It's pretty awful.