Now that Roku is being aggressively marketed in Costco I would expect Apple's sales ratio to diminish. Roku simply has more useful content. I have both; bought Roku, won an Apple TV. After my wife used both the Apple TV is in the closet and she went back to Roku. And yes, we are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem with many OSx and iOS devices.

Should be useful for right-handed Orthodox Jews who take their watches off once a day to put on Tefillin. :-)

How about a methane fuel cell. Should be especially useful to Chili ( with beans) lovers. (No racial slur intended.)

I'm 81 and scratch my ass a lot. A kinetic watch would fit my demographic just fine. :-)

Eco drive watches are (most models) run by an electric motor. Surely a digital smart watch would use less power with the right display, yes?

Samsung's smart watch needs a lot of generational improvement. Right now the battery life, charging, and limited models of devices syncing need lots of improvement. There is no major integrated Samsung ecosystem as there is with Apple, and the watch isn't useful to the many iPhone users or even many of Samsung's own phones. It's a one-trick pony at the moment.

So do Lifetrak (but with weak external software), Shine (ditto) and Fitbug ( which could use a little better form factor and button response reliability.). Both are possible with generational improvement, yet none are "junk".

Bad comparisons with Wii and Xbox, which have much higher price points being designed for high speed game playing.

The main failure of AppleTV is a lack of sufficiently aggressive channel acquisition. That's why I bought a Roku, even though I have many Apple products. Unless Apple TV is the precursor of something big using that technology, Apple could perhaps have saved money and lowered costs by buying Roku, keeping that team, and rebranding.

So you'll need a doctor's certificate in California, but not in Colorado?

They make gloves now that work with touch screens, just as they make rubber-like tips for the top of pens; the latter so cheaply they are on many give-away pens at trade shows.

What makes you think an iWatch has to make phone calls with the concomitant power drain? Even Star Trek used a separate device for that.

Actually, upgrades don't "cripple" anything. Some newer technologies are simply incompatible with earlier models lacking the requisite hardware.

HP-12C. When you get it right, subsequent technology becomes less important.

Scully's gadget is called Shine and Apple should be well aware of it since they sell it at Apple stores.