Fitness tracking is one of the Apple Watch’s most popular features, and this fall it is introducing sleep tracking for the Watch. When it launches, it will roll out to tens of millions of users. (Apple will likely soon pass 100 million cumulative Watch sales, if it hasn’t already.) Oura, meanwhile, is approaching 200,000 rings sold.
[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our “n... See more
And easy sells well. Thus more and more products are based on the promise to make our lives easier by using increasingly complex technologies with ever simpler interfaces.
Many of the perceived Covid winners such as e-commerce, videogame and streaming media companies have simply been pulled a few years forward into a future that was inevitable. Their destiny did not change. The future for those businesses simply accelerated whereas the future for category leading “brick and mortar” retailers has changed dramatically ... See more