http://www.thebigthink.org/2004/04/30/think-watch/ Transitions are transitory Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thebigthink.org/2004/04/30/think-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-1925 Jan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://thebigthink.org/2004/04/30/think-watch/#comment-1925 Oh boy, can't resist. If Apple made watches, they'd look really cool and come in all sorts of colors. However, instead of measuring time in seconds and minutes, they'd invent some new unit like iMinutes that are almost equal to a normal minute, but not quite. Then, all the iWatch people would always get the time wrong, but they'd swear up and down that they were right and the rest of the world was wrong. If the battery in an iWatch ever died, it wouldn't be user replacable. You'd have to go to an authorized iWatch repair center. Also, you couldn't just buy a normal old watch battery at Target, you'd have to buy a $50 iBattery. Also, every couple of months, you'd have to pay for and upload a new iWatch operating system upgrade so that your iMinutes would match all the rest of the iWatches in the world. Then, Steve Jobs would somehow convince people that this watch is actually a good idea and he'd sell millions of them. Oh boy, can’t resist. If Apple made watches, they’d look really cool and come in all sorts of colors. However, instead of measuring time in seconds and minutes, they’d invent some new unit like iMinutes that are almost equal to a normal minute, but not quite. Then, all the iWatch people would always get the time wrong, but they’d swear up and down that they were right and the rest of the world was wrong. If the battery in an iWatch ever died, it wouldn’t be user replacable. You’d have to go to an authorized iWatch repair center. Also, you couldn’t just buy a normal old watch battery at Target, you’d have to buy a $50 iBattery. Also, every couple of months, you’d have to pay for and upload a new iWatch operating system upgrade so that your iMinutes would match all the rest of the iWatches in the world. Then, Steve Jobs would somehow convince people that this watch is actually a good idea and he’d sell millions of them.

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