Seriously?

Within a very large "set" of possible motherboards, video cards, etc, What possible bearing would the range of a certain class of hardware that an OS can run on have to do with whether that OS uses featureless, monochromatic "tiles" that look like they were designed by a six-year-old (but which are running on a GPU that can crank out 25 zillion individually shaded and textured polygons per second), and which barely knows how to do an overlapping window, let alone multiple desktops, as opposed to an UI that actually looks like it was designed by someone who not only implemented easy-to-use features to compensate for systems with limited screen real-estate, while taking full advantage of systems with multiple displays? (Yes, I am fully aware that other OSes have supported things like multiple desktops for some time; but this is about Windows "Modern UI" vs. OS X).

So obviously, it isn't the tightly-spec'ed hardware (since what Apple is doing could be handled by any competent GPU designed in this century) (trackpad gestures notwithstanding). So maybe, just maybe, it is something else, eh?

Now that's funny!!!

Mike Dell; is that you?

You do realize, of course, just how ridiculous you sound at this point?

Exactly. Someone else, mod parent up, please!

That's because, if you have paid attention these last few years, Microsoft thinks that the name "Microsoft" is what is "tainted"; not "Windows". They're wrong, of course. And all they would have had to do was ask about 100 people randomly off the street, and that would have been well-enough data-sample to show that in abundance.

So they are trying like hell to run away from a pile of dogshit they stepped in, while ignoring the fact that they are still carrying the stench of it with them on their shoes.

All I gots to say is, Run, Ronny, Run!!!

R U Serious?

Are you REALLY saying that a PHONE is running a full-blown NT Kernel?!?

That's actually pretty impressive. But dumb.

Yeah, but you'll notice that Apple is VERY selective about "unifying" the Desktop (pointer-driven) and Tablet/Phone (touch-driven) environments. And I am sure that they have been even MORE selective after seeing the adoption rate of Windows 8...

For certain activities, it doesn't (and usually isn't in any reasonably-modern OS). However, at some point, the UI "becomes" the driving factor in the OS (and Application) design, and when that is ignored, you get the clusterfuck that is The Interface Formerly Known As Metro.

You're joking, right?

Even Linux fans acknowledge that there is anything but "literally one" Linux. In fact, that's either one of its biggest drawbacks or one of its greatest strengths (or both, somehow)...

Or are you new here?

So you design a better, practical system.

This.

That is precisely why I have set our work backup software to not erase "Deleted" files from our backups. Instead, the backup software just sends me a reminder every month to review the deleted files (which I will do when storage-space or backup-time becomes a problem). Until then, it is pretty cheap insurance against tears...

Exactly.

The people who are dogging on the Apple Watch for not being "autonomous" simply don't understand the state of the art regarding battery capacity vs. Power budgets, or the laws of physics regarding antenna sizes.

People who claim that the Galaxy S is "autonomous" because it has WiFi are not seriously thinking it through. My iPad is WiFi-only, and let me tell you, it does NOT feel particularly "independent" when I have tried to use it out of the range of WiFi. And believe it or not, those places still exist, even in a major metropolitan area such as where I live. Plus, I seriously doubt you're going to see much in the way of battery life if you do much WiFi-ing with the Galaxy S.

No, I too believe that the smart watch in General is best realized right now as an adjunct to a smartphone; but that still allows for some fairly useful applications.

Actually! I do worry a bit about that, too. That's why I usually put my phone on the passenger seat when I can, and in my laptop bag's front pocket, or on my desk when at at work. At home, my phone is likely to be anywhere.

And now we go full-circle, with me having to worry about the BT in the Apple Watch as well...

But, quite frankly, nothing scares me quite as much as a diagnosis of Brain Cancer/Brain Tumor. I watched the wife of an extended-family member go from seemingly fine to a corpse (quite unpleasantly) in the space of about six weeks due to brain cancer. It ain't pretty...

So, if I can avoid that fate by avoiding microwave transmitters strapped to my head for hours at a time, I think I will.

BTW, I was given a hand-me-down BT earpiece. Liked the convenience, but just couldn't get by that whole microwave thing...

Yes, they did. It was called the Original iPhone.

Other than the bigger display, and thinner case, the iPhone 6 clearly takes its design cues from the 2007 iPhone "1", which Samsung (and others) then shamelessly copied, Home Button shape notwithstanding.

So yeah, I stand by original statement; especially because, rounded corners or no, without the iPhone, y'all would still be using flip phones or Blackberries.

I was kinda hoping that Apple was going to sit this trend out, too.

Like you, I have enough knowledge and experience as an embedded Dev. For over three decades to know that we just aren't quite "there" yet, and that not even the technical might of Apple can bend enough laws of physics to make the impractical a reality.

And like you, I think they have done about as good as "we" can right now, because, even though the Galaxy S has (battery-sucking) WiFi, and apparently has an OS that allows for limited App execution, it really isn't a replacement for your smartphone until it has a cellphone and a front-facing camera in it (and now we've broken the bank, power and space-wise).

So, in a sense, Apple has found the best sweet spot overall for this class of device. Even in TNG-world, sometimes they would have to link Tricorders together, or upload data sets to the Enterprise so that more compute-power could be brought to bear on a problem. Just like most people wouldn't expect to run Maya on their phone, I don't think it's reasonable to expect "smartphone parity" from a watch just yet.