Re:The Apple Watch
by AJ007 on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:18PM
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Or consider the first iPhone which had no 3G. Building your first iteration specifically not to go up against a particular competitor can be intentional, in hardware and software. Two or three generations down the road this watch could prove interesting (or may be not, like the iPad.)
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No 3G, no app store(!!), no copy and paste, no GPS, worse call reception than the phones it replaced, the list goes on. It was still a massive success.
A pretty big difference is most other smartphones either didn't have these, or if they did the feature was so unusable it could just as well have been left out.
I remember it being fashionable here in the UK, mainly for the Carlsberg app that used the gyroscope (accelerometer?) to pretend that you were drinking a drink.
And for showing that you had a lot of money compared to us pauper Nokia users.
People were really disappointed with the lack of MMS, as I recall.