I was an early adopter of Thalmic's armband and love the idea of innovative hardware startups. I don't know if it was marketing and Thalmic/North not getting t

I was an early adopter of Thalmic's armband and love the idea of innovative hardware startups. I don't know if it was marketing and Thalmic/North not getting traction for its products or if it was just that Google came in with such a large offer. Or a combination of factors regarding sales and a buyout offer. I've heard hardware startups are a lot harder than many software startups but when we experience things like Roku and the Myo, it's a big wow factor. At least for me. I wish some companies would have clauses when they sell their products to whatever big name tech that customers get support or minimal updates for x years or refunds or something. As for Google's inability to make something of Google Glass (which I was also an early adopter of for development and paid full price), that's been a real shame. Not to mention Google abandoning developers who bought it and it was a similar case when we all bought into Angular (version 1).