Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
I love a good poll
I think of each one as the lovechild of Nate Silver and Karl Rove: rational, troubled and fundamentally schizophrenic.
So after Apple unveiled its alleged masterpiece of a timepiece, I waited for the pollsters to unsheathe their social thermometers and tell us how hot the humans are for the new gadget.
I rumbled an Adobe study, performed on Tuesday. This was deeply committed to the notion that 27 percent of Americans were "very likely" to buy an Apple Watch. Did they all live in Cupertino? Were they all at the heart of nerdification?
I waited, though, wondering whether this was merely the overnight excitement of the inebriated.
The next poll I noticed was performed by Reuters. This is a rolling five-day poll. As I write, this has a slightly less rosy (and perhaps more realistic) notion of how many might be seduced by a digital Mickey Mouse face and the hope that their watch will calm them down when their blood pressure gets too high.
This poll offers that 69.6 percent are either "not at all interested" or "not very interested." As to those who are "very interested," that figure stands at 9.7 percent. A tinge of hope is offered by the Mini-Mice who say they are "somewhat interested." Some 15.2 percent declare that their interest is lit by a somewatt bulb.