* Posts by Codeus

6 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2007

Fitbit picks up Pebble, throws Pebble as far as it can into the sea

Codeus

Nuts

I previously owned the original pebble, then the Time and I had 4 x Pebble Time 2's on Kickstarter Early-bird pre-order before I got the up-beat-bad-news email from Pebble.

One was a Christmas present so this isn't helpful to me. Most annoying is they have said they'll refund pre-orders 'By March' ... MARCH! I guess I should shut up and be grateful I'll get anything back and since I am in the UK and the £ has dropped vs the dollar due to Brexit I should get a little more back than I spent.

Another consideration is that this is REALLY bad news for crowd-funding in general and KickStarter in particular, given that Pebble were 3 out of 4 of Kickstarters 'most successful' projects of all time...

Oh.. and I swapped to an Apple Watch Series 1 recently... It's a much richer experience than Pebble was, much less buggy OS and daily charging isn't the issue I though it would be in practice, it will actually last two days but you do that with your phone already, right?

Apple dangles Spangles while Dabbsy's cables rankle

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Go

Please flame me.

The new MacBook Air is pretty nice, a days usage on a charge is pretty handy and the Ultrabooks are still shit in comparison.

Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story

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FAIL

.....applied ot universally....

Did you mean 'applied it universally' ?

Glass houses, stones.... and I...

It's JUST possible, but Apple MIGHT not make an iWatch in 2013

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FAIL

Um... missing the point.

Lazy article... have you never seen http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android ?

Its much more likely apple will release a watch that connects via bluetooth to the iPhone / iPod in your pocket, not an iPod strapped to your wrist or an all-in-one wrist phone.

Personally I think the watch is long overdue for a upgrade.

I need to multitask, but Windows 8's Metro won't let me

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FAIL

The operating system formerly known as Windows.

Since it no longer allows the user to use mutliple windows, they need to stop calling it Windows.

Tablet OS on Desktop fail.

Finally time to move to a mac at home

PS3 outsold Xbox 360 2:1 in Japan

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Not only but also....

Both Microsoft and Sony need to wake up to the fact that only a small number of consumers will pay £300 odd for a games machine...

The Wii is novel but just as importantly - it doesn't cost a fortune - and therefore appeals to a larger audience.