How Apple's transcendent chihuahua killed the revolution

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June 16, 2015

The Geek's Chihuahua by Ian Bogost Few are excited about the Apple Watch—its burdens are too easily imagined. And yet we treat it as an inevitability. How did this happen?

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How Apple's transcendent chihuahua killed the revolution