Our 7% Solution

The good folks at simple-talk asked me to take a swing at some topic, and I've sent off a draft. We'll see how it works out, but, coincidentally, Apple has had its big soiree, and the Watch and Pay were prominent. The 6 not really so much, being well, the 6^th in line. Yeah, so what's new? No sapphire, either.

Well, one Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times has this to say about Pay:

The late, great social critic Neil Postman used to pose a question that had to be asked whenever a new technology appeared in the marketplace: "What is the problem to which this is the solution?"

It was a rigged question, of course, because more often than not the answer was "Nothing."

Turns out, I reached exactly the same conclusion in my musing on the requested topic. Because, more often than not...

We'll have to see how strong Steve's residual Reality Distortion Field is, since neither Watch nor Pay look to be much of a solution.