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Post by diggan »

Y_Y wrote: post #112
zhovner wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

Hi Pavel Zhovner. I'm afraid you're not doing a very good job of keeping it secret. What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?

> What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?

Or even better, a version that ships with everything besides "the brain" and allows us to use our Flipper Zero as the brain :) Looking at the old blog articles about the project, it seems it got started with using Flipper Zero as the brain, so maybe it's not that far-fetched.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by diggan »

bloopernova wrote: post #115
VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

I wonder how many people bought this item without checking that it's legitimate?

I'm 97% sure 0 people bought this thing, seeing as it isn't available to buy yet.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by tjohns »

bloopernova wrote: post #115
VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

I wonder how many people bought this item without checking that it's legitimate?

Zero, because there's no checkout page yet. Just a mailing list for status updates.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by mattkrause »

joshvm wrote: post #83
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.

This is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes. As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the GP, because it’s a few Francs a minute If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute billing.

Sadly for you, I think 6 minute increments (i.e., 0.1 of an hour) might be more common.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by gffrd »

robertlagrant wrote: post #2

I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?

Price is high … but the right price is the price people are willing to pay.

… and people will pay a lot for anything that tickles their idea of self-identity, allows them to project an image they find favorable, but taps in to some core utility that allows you to provide cover for the prior. See: Apple devices, fitness, business conferences, this device.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

bobnamob wrote: post #127
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to say that $200 seemed awfully expensive for a programmable kitchen timer. I've had a project idea for a while that would require a bit more juice. In short, I want to make a music practice timer for ADHD kids that avoid actually playing music during practice time. I want it to be beefy enough to run some simple ML for detecting instruments being played, and I only want the timer to count down while the…

The adversarial child would be playing recordings into the timer within minutes no?

I'm assuming the child is question is not so much adversarial so much as ADHD. They'll be actively looking to divert their attention to more stimulating activities than playing an instrument but not attempting to cheat the system. And I'm assuming a parent is present but not necessarily in full control of the child. Or it could work equally well for an adult in a similar situation.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by swores »

marliechiller wrote: post #136
jstanley wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't prove anything.

It literally says: "Flipper Devices Designed by Flipper Devices Inc. © 2024. All rights reserved."

Every scam website ever made that pretends to be part of a known business copies that business's footer text, it's not remotely relevant in trying to judge whether a website is telling the truth or not about who owns it.

(And in case anyone reads my comment without seeing that the founder of Flipper already commented confirming this is theirs, not a scam: that's the case.)

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