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Forum Comment on The Register comment thread. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/09/10/pundits_bullish_on_apple_over_iday_rollouts/ article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/10/pundits_bullish_on_apple_over_iday_rollouts/ If you take the view that Apple doesn't have to beat the opposition if it can neutralize it ....

Interesting quote re: ApplePay Apple DOES NOT benefit the mobile payments space To the contrary, Apple Pay basically destroys the business model of everyone playing in the mobile payments space before today! This is great for consumers, but everyone else is busy throwing out their business plan and figuring out how to survive this. I always figured NFC payments would be really hard to make work in the US because everyone wants to take a cut of the transaction. Everyone involved from phone OEMs, carriers, app developers and various others who figured they could insert themselves in the process - all had dreams of making billions off a small cut of the action. Those dreams are now gone. Apple doesn't need a cut (or profit down the road via using/selling customer data) since they make their money selling phones/watches. Payment processors and banks didn't want to give anyone a cut of their action. Merchants didn't want to give a bigger cut than they give now to enable more pigs at the trough. So the banks, payment processors, and merchants all became logical partners of Apple, and the massive support they've lined up guarantees Apple Pay will gain traction where others have failed. Anyone who wants to play the mobile payments game after today will have to play by the profit-free information-free rules Apple has now set in stone. Brilliant move by Apple, this deals Google's aspirations a crippling blow by taking away their ability to collect data on user purchases and add it to their massive trove of customer data. Had Google been able to link purchase behavior all the way back to user searches, the value of that search data and AdWords would have grown immeasurably.

Would you go as far as "These products are about "how they make you feel" says Tim Cook." ? https://twitter.com/Vecchi_Paolo/status/509398068152631296

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Apple sued for wearables prior art?

A thought for Carl (and others) Journalists, now your editors will require you to write content that can be consumed on a Watch. Godspeed!

I've been enjoying The Registers "live snark" of the event ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/09/apple_big_event/ Some good comments in there https://twitter.com/TheRegister/timelines/509382886235987968

But be adorable while doing so ... Hey, instant wubable (awww) viral video for Justin.

"The Core" https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-core-wireless-speaker-system Looks good. And with today's limited attention spans, who'd remember a 2003 movie of the same name, to spoil the brand? http://respectfuldefiance.blogspot.com/2009/03/film-review-core-scientific-review.html

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^There is a good reason why there is no such thing as left over bacon ...

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Jenny Lewis | At the Roundhouse - iTunes Festival 2014

"Wall" of Marshals .... Because This is head case

These are the "cans" you're looking for

Hmm, interesting about the evolution of the "smart" watch. The "wrist" watch was not always with us. http://stricklandvintagewatches.com/the-wwi-trench-watch-its-origins-and-characteristics/ (pocket / fob watches were impractical in combat - synchronized timekeeping had tactical advantages) People used to wear watches - to tell the time - with a glance. Then they realized - hey - my phone has a clock - why do I need a watch. Now my phone has multiple functions .. or its grown into a phablet ... which is why some people use a bluetooth headset for the comms function. Think of the smart watch as your notificatiion / status bar - on your wrist. Inform me of updates that you can ACK / NACK with a glance / swipe , without having to get / power on / unlock / navigate to on your phone ... but yes, there are tasks for which the larger form factor of the phone would be better than a watch ....

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Puerto Rican style ... I Pork Chop,Plantains,fixin's Camerones, deep fried, etc.

^ you just got one ? or you didn't notice making you a bit of a ....

Lossless Streaming Music Service WiMP , now comes to the UK/US as Tidal. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/09/03/tidal Which is handy given that Qobuz has filed for the French Equivalent of Chapter 11 protection

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