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Given the kind of guy Bill Gates is, I'd say he's quite delighted to know he saw the future yet again. The guy is quite a visionary and knows how to make things happen.
@Loverock Davidson
Yeah but Chester Gould, the guy that created the Dick Tracy comic strip in 1931 beat Gates to it, just like Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek) foresaw tablets and handheld communicators. 'Imagining' these things isn't really all that tough when you have these great writer/visionaries around. The tough part is actually building one that actually works and gains the hearts and minds of the larger market place. I'm afraid Gate's versions never quite made it.
Yeah but Chester Gould, the guy that created the Dick Tracy comic strip in 1931 beat Gates to it, just like Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek) foresaw tablets and handheld communicators. 'Imagining' these things isn't really all that tough when you have these great writer/visionaries around. The tough part is actually building one that actually works and gains the hearts and minds of the larger market place. I'm afraid Gate's versions never quite made it.
@Loverock Davidson
Are you kidding me? Gates isn't much of a visionary, he never thought the internet would take off! MS was late to the internet party
Are you kidding me? Gates isn't much of a visionary, he never thought the internet would take off! MS was late to the internet party
@explodingwalrus
I'm fairly certain he was being sarcastic.
I'm fairly certain he was being sarcastic.
The Timex Datalink watches were personal information managers on a wristband. I owned two of them for a number of years and relied on their calendar functionality to remind me of appointments. When Gates talked about smart watches in 2003, I thought he was kidding since what he described had been around for many years already.
I would buy stock in nano wristbands, if I could. It's the classic TV watch idea from the Jetsons that everybody thought was so COOL. There's no way this will be lost on geek types!
I also know many people who have abandoned wristwatches entirely, and just look at their phones to know the time.
as soon as SJ suggested that the nano could double as a wristwatch I was sold on the ipod nano.
I haven't bought an ipod since 2005.
I haven't bought an ipod since 2005.
No it isn't. Every device that Bill Gates ever envisioned that would change the world runs Windows. The most expensive desktop version, if possible. He'd also have a little built-in stylus for his theoretical watch device to change modes and take mini-notes. Bill Gates will take one look at this iPod nano and declare it as useless junk especially when compared to the Zune HD. It's not unusual since all the Windows fanbois dance to the Microsoft beat of Ballmer's Monkey Dance.
The watch idea is cool and all, but how about the headphone wires running the length of your flexing arm like power lines in a storm?
The Nano could be a smart watch someday if it integrated a wireless link like bluetooth, making it connect to the phone, stream music to wireless headset and it would make sense to be work on the wrist also in addition to being clipped anywhere.
I have a post here ..
http://dennismathews.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/smart-watches/
I have a post here ..
http://dennismathews.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/smart-watches/
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