Yea. I was wondering how can they afford to pay for the benefits for W-2.

How can they compete to someone doing exactly the same thing but as a 1099 contractor instead of W2 to cut cost.

Spots on! Thank you for writing this. Access is definitely the most important thing in here. It actually remind me of the important work that Internet.org is doing.

I actually saw this in full effects near alexandra steakhouse Cupertino. It is a really impressive experience. and also surprisingly, it works for even when I was quite far away, at least like 20 meters. I wonder how the technology works. Dose it has something to do with the one way transmission?

> In that scenario, it is easy to see how an expensive watch that replicates smartphone's functionalities would be a commercial failure.

I think in the case of watch and luxury products, this is different. Buyers don't buy watch for the functionality of checking time, but the design, status symbol and other values from luxury goods.

> Buyers don't buy watch for the functionality of checking time, but the design, status symbol and other values from luxury goods.

Well not all of them! Look at the wrists of the people around you. When I do so, I mostly see regular watches. Sometimes some of them have a fancy design but they all share common characteristics which are:

* easy of use; doing one job very well; inexpensiveness

The watch industry is so well established that almost anyone can afford an aesthetically pleasing watch at a reasonable price.

I don't think that people will spend so much money on wearables that are so redundant with their already complicated smartphones.

On the other hand, Pebble have a good product that does a great job at making everyday tasks easier. It's not a smartphone on my wrist, it's just an aid.. exactly like my old watch used to be. As I said above, the watch is solid and pretty inexpensive. IMHO I think that the only missing pieces are: variety of designs available, better embedded technologies.

I will address the case of the "watch connoisseur" in the following paragraph. I will assume (safely?) that they although those consumes have a huge buying power, they are the minority.

They buy watch for their personal pleasure and because they appreciate the often mind-blowing technologies that they embed. A high-end watch is more than a useful device, it is a piece of human craftsmanship. It is both a symbol and a status that has prestige. See Patek Phillipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPjFFMD3c0

I don't think that watch luxury brands are threaten by the ave of wearable devices and I would definitely not consider Apple as luxury company. To me they are kind of in the worst position: not expensive/complicated enough to appeal to the collectors and not cheap enough to appeal to "most" people unless they are already loyal to the brand.

I don't think this is the case here. This is a freemium model, hoping the people CAN afford internet but do not know they NEED it will pay for the normal services with the operator.

Yes, Project Shield is the best solution.

Actually I have the exact same idea like a few weeks ago. The potential for this idea is big. It can be widely used by small web apps (Chrome App). Instead of hosting a server and a database, every thing can be done and stored in the client, isn't that neat?

You should have a look at filepicker.io then

as yefrederic pointed out you could use filepicker.io to build static js applications. We handle all the server side logic for you.

Good Question. I think the majority issue is: 1. Gaming in Android isn't that impressive yet. 2. They are def. working on it. But they don't want to make so many enemies (Sony) before they have a chance. For them, it is not a huge profitable item. Getting the Google TV into the living room is more important. But I can see Google TV eventually will become a console and OuYA will die out.

It doesn't need to die out. They can continue to make the hardware, and adopt the new software. Not sure about the whole free-games thing, though.

Interesting. I thought about this. I think they will have their own market and not open to the official android market so that they will the cut of profit that games generated.

I grew up in China and this is def true. IE6 is still popular in China is because a lot of banks and governments website only works in IE(6). Since banks are state owned, they don't have incentive to compete to make their site better. I think the only hope is to wait till their computers die and when they install new windows IE6 will be gone.