Essentially yes. It’s designed to last 30 minutes submerged in 3 feet of water. Apple advertises it as “water resistant.”

Their entire (wildly successful) corporate strategy hinges on fashion-conscious gearheads replacing their iThing every year or two.

You can still pair the watch with a bluetooth heart rate sensor.

Not really. The original iPhones work fine. I’m still using 2008 iPod touches. It’s just that most developers require a more recent OS with features like GPS or front-facing camera or more RAM.

Not really. The only thing Pebble is limited by on iPhone is that you can’t reply to text messages from the watch (but you can send canned replies e.g. Yes, No, Maybe, Call you? on Android). I can’t think of any other function limited by iPhone.

Marco Arment (popular iOS developer) wrote his Apple Watch app in simulator like everyone else before the watch was released, so most of the watch apps available on launch day had no testing in real world. He wrote a good blog post about how in the week he’s had the actual watch, he saw the flaws and overhauled the…

You’re looking at zoomed-in photos. If you try one on in-store, they look tiny.

Apple sells over a dozen other bands.

Thanks for the review. I find it interesting you panned smartwatches, but then spoke about your Pebble. I love my Pebble and use it daily (it’s great to discretely check text messages in a meeting). If you had to pick right now, would you buy a Pebble or Apple Watch? (I don’t see many reviewers compare the two.)

That’s awesome. It’s up there with people who think the server is asking “Super salad?” repeatedly.

Florida is a separate culture now?

In some cultures, sand is just a parking lot.

It protects the joint, and prevents arthritis. Ligaments attach to it directly. It’s known as a “sesamoid bone” and you may have small ones in other parts of the body like fingers.

How do they colorize luggage X-rays?

Director Keith Alexander built his war room to resemble Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise

Apple is competing with Google Maps. It seems likely they’re just making their own Street View, and in standard fashion trying to find a way to do it better than Google. (Apple’s 3D maps are superior to Google’s, maybe they’re doing 3D street view)

Reddit picked up where Digg fell apart (around 2010). The way to enjoy reddit properly is to unsubscribe from the major subreddits and customize it to fit your interests.

Come on, /r/NoFap is better than that. The fact remains that many people find masturbation to be addicting; it’s so easy to find porn online that plenty of young people wind up staying home and masturbating rather than developing a social life and interacting with people of the opposite sex in the real world. /r/NoFap…

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I try not to block people. Bigots tend to live in their own bubble where facts cannot penetrate, so the only way to help break them out of that is to let facts seep in or challenge them. It has a poor success rate, but better than nothing. Change will come slowly. However, if they start stressing me out, I eventually…