From from an interview by Chris Kornelis in The Wall Street Journal, William Shatner, the actor and author of Leonard, about Leonard Nimoy, discusses his favorite gadgets.
A snippet:
Pushing the envelope is rushing the future. And there’s no need to rush the future because the future is rushing right at us.
But if I had to pick the best part of the modern age, it would be an iPhone.
I understand Apple has come out with a new iPhone [the SE] that goes back to the dimensions of the 5, which I support. — William Shatner
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mr. Shatner, congratulations on a dazzling display of logic. 😉
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Scott M.” for the heads up.]
No, Captain… you always have been.
Still waiting to permission to come aboard.
MDN comment… good memory.
Which is why Star Trek will always be better than Star Wars.
Yeah, I said it.
Come at me.
Of course you’re right. At least about ST:TOS and Star Wars. Not so much the reboot.
True, but there is room for Star Wars and Firefly.
One of the best products ever! Stayed in line for a while when the first iPhone came out. Amazing simplicity!
Same here. I remember that years before the first iPhone people would always ask, “Why doesn’t Apple make a phone?” I always figured that Apple just didn’t want to get into bed with the likes of mobile carriers. Still there was this pent up demand. Most people hated their mobile phones. They’d go from one brand to next, one model to the next, just trying to find one that made reliable calls and synched contacts. The idea of an app economy did not even exist.
Then bazinga. The iPhone. Absolute Right Thing at the Absolute Right Time. Homerun in every possible way.
It’s no wonder that Apple has a hard time duplicating that. It was a perfect storm of conditions to disrupt the mobile phone industry.
Now every phone out there is an iPhone of sorts. iOS or Android. Android fools can whine all they want but they are using a flat, thin, touchscreen with chicklet icons as defined by Apple. They are running apps, as defined by Apple.
And nobody wants to pay the piper…
Exactly. I loved Palm until they completely stalled. I switched from a Palm phone to a Windows phone because it did more, but ohhhh boy did it suck.
When the rumors of an Apple phone kicked in I was in heaven.
When Steve announced it, the wait was painful.
The day Apple released it I was in line for it outside an AT&T store and a thunderstorm showed up and I, my girlfriend and a couple dozen other people were soaked by the time the doors opened and we could get our phone.
And that first iPhone really seemed magical.
I might feel the same way all over again if Apple does VR in a big way, with retina level screens with peripheral coverage, a completely new user interface that uses head, eye and gesture tracking, and voice control.
I can dream.
Great to hear people putting into perspective all that we take for granted now. Presents the sane side of the coin to the other where the trolls release their deluded ill informed bile.
All of us need to know what things were like before Apple changed the rules of the game and just get real about the problems of trying to replicate it purely based on a timescale basis for the sake of the share price rather than on an opportunity basis when on that rare occasion all the facets come together to offer a breakthrough product. Those opportunities are few and far between whether you have a Steve Jobs or otherwise at the helm. The core of delusion is not understanding that dynamic and instead condemn the management for not reenacting Richard III seeking a new horse at any cost. In that way you simply get a camel and we of course all know who would be the first to complain at that.
Before the iPhone, I dealt with Moto flip phones that were expensive with short lives.
On Jan. 2007 Steve lifted the first iPhone on my MBPro screen. Steve didn’t even need to explain what it did as I knew instantly.
The Apple Store line was a people python of incredible length, so I waited at the ATT store, but they ran out. In the late afternoon I decided to go to the Apple Store and see. The line was down to 5 people outside the store and buying my first iPhone took what seemed to be only a few minutes.
No other device since WWII has changed human abilities and ability to interact as much as the iPhone.
An actor from a sci-fi TV series, a character from a fictionalized story. Hmmm, sounds like a perfect compliment to a mythological corporate entity managed by a halfwit CEO.
Joe, you seem irritable again. Can we send someone over to change your pants?
Shhhh. It’s art crawl. He hates art crawl.
So when you were born the doctor must have said to the jackal mother: “Madam, here is your quarterwit born asshole.”
You also forget in your quarterwit stupidity that the inspiration for flip phones was the Star Trek Communicator as well later the iPad from ST:TNG PADD. The series was based constantly on finding the most correct science and future science it could through Kellam de Forest Research Company though still had it’s flights of fancy. They tried to be as accurate as was possible in the mid-60’s and influenced many scientists and engineers. NASA was indebted for the interest in space the show provided.
But you’re just too spectacularly stupid to know and appreciate these things and about 7 years old apparently. Open your vitriolic mouth or post and ignorant inane ramblings with no perspective just pour on out. How does one person get to be just so darn dumb?
I assure you that Apple do exist!
Which Apple? The company that resides in Cupertino, CA or the one in fantasy land that fanboys prance around in?
The actually fantasy here is you think you have anything worth saying or hearing with a brain cavity only 1/8th full. The rest is excrement filler.
Hi praise from the man who first showed us handheld communicators and P.A.D.D.s!
“High” even! 🙂
But, Captian… I find myself in total agreement with you (i know… lol!). Permission to request a kiss, sir?
Go Apple!
Bones: “Jim, do know what you have done?”
Spock: “He knows doctor, he knows …”
Or something like that, been awhile since I watched the LIVE episode in the 1960s.
Point is Kirk is spot on. The 5SE makes the Star Trek communicator more akin to a one dimensional blunt tool. 😜
The ST communicator has a longer range than the iPhone, but appears to have had about the same degree of dropped calls and poor voice quality as current cell phones!
“The 5SE makes the Star Trek communicator more akin to a one dimensional blunt tool.”
I think you mean “stone knives and bear skins”. 😀
Roger that.
Steve Jobs was a genius.
Ai, he says true.
I think it’s sometimes okay to mention the obvious. It’s easy to forget how good phones are now and it’s hard to remember just how hard to use and how awful phones were back before the iPhone.
Thank you, William Shatner.
I wonder if he has the Star Trek Communicator app. Doesn’t really add much in terms of functionality, but is a lot of fun.
Rotary Dialer is another fun app. When the iPhone first came out, I use to show folks the app as Apple’s “revolution”ary new interface.
Some people on this site forget that Star Trek was a fictional TV series, that warp drives and phasers did not exist, and Kirk and Spot were not real people. But hey, if “Capn’ Kirk” is your source for digital news and technological advice, well, beam yourself to the bridge.
You are so pathetic. You don’t see the value of things thought fantasy or science fiction in the past that are reality today? That those things inspired engineers and inventors to make those things real and inspire our travel to the stars even today? Fictional technology becomes real technology asswipe. The things you use today as modern conveniences were fantasy 100 years ago. What an exponentially super-fucking idiot you are. And that’s being kind.
I hear a gnat buzzing around my ears trying to sound intelligent but failing miserably.
As Sean more or less said:
Taking out a lack of insights, intelligent observations, criticism with actual backup evidence, adult demeanor, etc. — here’s the Samsung paid-for cheap deep denigration-only wisdom of homophobic One Note Doofus Joe…
“fallen, pretension, elitism, fashion, pomposity, dismayed, disgusted, angry”
Yeaaahhhh. Fabulous contribution to the discussion, One Note Doofus.
Also, and once again, you fail to get the point since you are incapable of making reasoned arguments or appreciate inspiration yourself (having none yourself). Inspiration & imagination can move technology along (but since all you got is mush between your ears I understand your confusion). The push for fantastic technologies (like warp drive and replicators) might give us something else unforeseen. You are too short-sighted with extremely limited tunnel and imagination vision (which is mostly why you don’t understand Apple) to understand what also might be just around the corner.
It’s what we’ve come to expect from One Note Doofus Joe living in a lonely van down by the river. You’re like dealing with a petulant child, brain farting his way along in life.