ignobleParting

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by ignobleParting 9y ago
Your opinion regarding the descriptive qualifier of this problem as an “ engineering ” problem, thus special (a no-true-scotsman) and exempt from all other requirements certainly isn’t based on facts. You first. But hey, choices are choices
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
The tenacity of this evasive posturing is pretty tedious. I suppose the odds of some non-technical user wiping their phone or destroying it, thus losing their last working copy of the app ( after Pebble’s IP is dropped from the walled-garde
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
No, it’s pretty unreasonable, and obviously a business decision.
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
It’s shipped in a locked state. A factory reset reverts it to that locked state. The device is rendered inoperable through a factory reset by design. You need a remote server to reactivate this watch. If you try to reset the watch, erase yo
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
Look at how the watch’s community failed to grow beyond certain limits, and how small the community remained, despite insistent proclamations that the device is well-designed. I think that speaks for itself.
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
No. Wrong. If I don’t want the smart bit, the device’s degradation into an ordinary version of a watch should be graceful, and without barriers or punishment. I’m not sure why this is so hard to understand and design toward. Why would anyon
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
If you’re selling me something, and you call it a “ kind-of- thing” I want it to be an actual thing first and a “ smart kind of thing ” second. Pebble was kind of not a thing. A little too smart for its own good.
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
after the initial update See, there’s your problem. Wait, how? The decision to ship the watch in an inoperable state is coercive. optional? Still, this is a dark pattern. Forcing the conversation represents an inducti
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
That’s funny, because I’M a consumer, and I’m TELLING you that’s what I want in a smart watch. I guess I just don’t exist. Hilariously, neither does the Pebble.
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by ignobleParting 9y ago
Pebble was a terrible device, and riddled with horrble design decisions. From the word “go” you knew Pebble was trying to lock you in, register and count you as a user, log demographic information about you, and tether that information to u