Natural-Wood Apple Watch Charging Stand

[winkybber]

What I meant was that surely the watch will still charge on the original charger - nightstand mode or not. If the new OS interfered with, or broke, the functionality of the wooden stand (which is to charge the watch), only THEN it would be obsolete.

[kupfernigk]

@winkybber

But I don’t think the current 911 could/should really be regarded as a “bloated travesty”.

Look at the second hand prices of “real” 911s and modern ones and tell me that.

[kupfernigk]

@shaddack

Yes, the cutouts make it more complex than what an analytical approach can handle.

I think it was the cutouts caused the 6+ problem.

@shaddack

Portable gadgets, especially if they are mission-critical communication devices, should be engineered as robust enough to withstand the rigors of less than careful handling with some reserve.

Now there I agree 100%.
But I’m not a phone maker.

[anon29631895]

@daneel

Walnut or oak, not apple?

Whenever I see the headline at the bottom of a page that I am viewing, my brain swaps the words around to ‘Natural Apple Wood’

[telecinese]

@kupfernigk

There is. It’s called the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, which is probably what I will go for when my Z1 compact dies. The Z1 lacks the battery life of the Z3, but it goes well over 2 days on a charge. The Z3 exceeds 3 days.

Looks nice! I’ve always appreciated Sony’s care to details in their more upscale-oriented industrial design. Even in products that are otherwise unremarkable, like this dog-slow Vaio netbook my father used to have (not in pink though).

Designing the VAIO W Series: Color

The dream of a top-end small iPhone lives on, with the recent announcement of their new 4-inch iPods with iPhone-current chips and camera. I’d rather stick to ios for now, because that’s where my purchased apps are. And for all the BS iCloud comes with, restoring every little detail, setting and in-app content of your old phone into a new one works like delicious, eldritch magick.

[kupfernigk]

@telecinese

I’d rather stick to ios for now, because that’s where my purchased apps are.

This, of course, is the issue; despite the Unix/Linux underpinnings, phones are monocultures due to the very different APIs. I thought the 4s was pretty good but at the time my company was BlackBerry, and when I made the switch it was to Android because I felt the 5s really wasn’t the right tradeoff. We became an all-Sony family (and there’s nothing wrong with them), but I have to say if the 6 had come out instead of the 5s the decision would probably have been different.
And now I’m heavily invested in the Google cloud, so iCloud would be a major change for no apparent gain. I have two phones, different sizes, different carriers, and I can configure the UI to suit the screen size but everything else essential is just shared, also with my laptops. I don’t think either system is now overall better or worse than the other; it’s mainly about support, with Apple focussing on the more end to end support for the less technical and higher-end Android offering more scope for technical users.