Apple’s competitor retention law dictates that when one competitor leaves, another must enter. It has always been so and always will be.
What is this?
Sorry, quantum mechanics denies any knowledge of this law and says there may be as many Apple competitors as they want to try.
You’re not my boss, quantum mechanics!
Macalope is told that quantum mechanics is actually his boss.
Well, whatever it is, it happened this week.
Meta’s Apple Watch competitor is already on hiatus as the company focuses on AR / VR
“We’re moving from dystopian personal tracking devices to dystopian face-hugs.” OK. Lots of the brand.
… Meta was working on a new smartwatch with a built-in camera to compete with the Apple Watch. Now Facebook’s parent company has stopped developing this wearable device as it focuses on the metaverse.
Well, that’s just great! Now how will Macalope be constantly monitored and will every movement and biometric data be sold to advertisers? Will he have to accumulate this information and sell it himself? That sounds like a lot of work! If we can’t rely on Meta to track all our traffic and most personal information and sell it to advertisers, then who can we count on ?!
Alas, you will be stuck with this stupid Apple Watch that sends privacy. So don’t expect furniture ads to appear on your Instagram feed the next time you go through Ikea.
Trying to compete with the Apple Watch now seems like trying to run up through a waist-high pudding slide. It is possible, but you have to be quite dedicated.
So, how about making a new smartphone instead ?! Ah, this is the ticket.
Yes, while Fire Phone and Essential Phone were sent to the trash of potential iPhone killers, drugs continue to spring forever. Welcome – and Macalope is legally obligated to point out here that it didn’t come up with that name – the Nothing phone.
“The first smartphone is not aimed at anything Apple, not OnePlus”
After the moderate success of its Ear 1 headphones, Nothing took over the smartphone space, going so far as to unveil its offering a month earlier. Yes, soon everything will change. And what will change it? Nothing.
But Nothing is ready to talk about specifications or price.
Do not hurry.
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How it looks? It looks a bit like the iPhone 11 with a clear back. And it obviously lights up, probably to convey certain types of news. Good, but if the suppliers will be able to deliver always-on screens soon, it doesn’t look like the lights will have a long shelf life.
The user interface, a processed version of Android that looks like a dashboard for the state of Europe’s railway station, is certainly a different kind that some users looking for a change are likely to like, but not many people are likely to change platforms. So while Carl Pay of Nothing may throw out the features of the iPhone his company wants to compete with, it’s a bit like Macalope saying he likes Taika Whitey’s movies, so he expects to be friends with him one day.
(But seriously, Taika, if you’re reading this, call me.)
IDC’s Francisco Geronimo is a little suspicious of the phone’s transforming powers.
I see some [sic] a lot of noise around the phone @nothing, which I’m starting to suspect is nothing special about this phone other than the cover and a lot of online marketing. I hope you can prove me wrong @getpeid
When so little is known about the device other than wanting to be compared to the iPhone, Macalope tends to agree.
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