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Somehow this seems obvious product of something that should have been first verified as an app... And if that is popular make a stand alone product... Jumping t
by Ekaros 2y ago
Somehow this seems obvious product of something that should have been first verified as an app... And if that is popular make a stand alone product... Jumping to stand alone product seems just insane...
If I were less moral I might try to get funding for something like this myself...
- wvenable 2y agoBut you can't own the ecosystem that way. So many user-hostile product decisions are made in order to own the user and potentially extract recurring revenue. Whether it's this or printer ink subscriptions. Building products that user's want is secondary to owning the market.
- paxys 2y agoThe company backed itself into a corner. Since day 1 they sold a grand vision of a product that would "free you" from your smartphone. When it was obvious that it would only work as something you tethered to your phone, their collective ego was too big to say "we were wrong, here's an accessory instead".