The wearable Steve jobs would've made

Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by moxon on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:12PM (#8858237)

Jobs was far too obsessed with simplifying high-technology to have considered a non-tech physical product. But in reducing a product and its purpose to the simplest form, I think he would have agreed that high-tech is not always the answer.

“I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the [Eichler-style homes]. “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac. That’s what we did with the iPod.”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-steve-jobs-lo...

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by Victorjm on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:43PM (#8858435)

Full-disclosure: The kickstarter featured here is one I created.

I'd have to agree that if still alive there's no way SJ veer from the path of high-tech. Part of me does wonder however how this would be different if he had been born 30 years later. Being the rebel that he was known for at times, I wouldn't be surprised if the company he'd be starting as a 20 year old in this day in age, would indeed be a lo-tech focused company.

Who knows, maybe starting a company wouldn't even be the "Steve" thing to do right now.

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by erickaplan on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:04PM (#8858586)

Sorry but no. Steve Jobs would never made something like this ever. This idea is stupid and weren't you the founder of some Peter-Thiel backed startup? Don't you have better things to spend your time on then make bracelets?

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by erickaplan on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:25PM (#8858732)

If there's one thing to learn about Steve jobs it's that people don't know what they want. Having someone buy 500 of something is no indicator of success, try selling $1M and then we'll talk

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by erickaplan on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:18PM (#8858672)

Not sure what concept validation has to do with it. The guy is raising $10,000 for a rubber band! Why even do a Kickstarter for this at all?

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by rileysroberts on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:23PM (#8858720)

* The guy raised 10k in a day for his "rubber band". Yeah, so dumb, only 500 people have contributed.

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by rileysroberts on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:30PM (#8858768)

Really don't think that's the main lesson to learn from Steve, but enjoy your narrow TechCrunch perspective.

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Re:The wearable Steve jobs would've made by rileysroberts on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:16PM (#8858660)

Wow, unnecessarily harsh. It's a KickStater bruh. Concept validation, ever heard about it?

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