Intel Acquires Basis Watch
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Intel Acquires Basis Watch
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Re: Intel Acquires Basis Watch
#2Congrats Basis!
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#3Intel is clearly looking at wearable and embedded spaces. This seems like a lot to pay for something that doesn't have the install base of Fitbit, or Fuel.
I can't imagine basis had any tech that Intel couldn't replicate, and this seems like too much for talent acquisition.
Not what I would drop $100M on if I was Intel.
Re: Intel Acquires Basis Watch
#4Intel is clearly looking at wearable and embedded spaces. This seems like a lot to pay for something that doesn't have the install base of Fitbit, or Fuel. I can't imagine basis had any tech that Intel couldn't replicate, and this seems like too much for talent acquisition. Not what I would drop $100M on if I was Intel.
Seems cheap for a company with 18B cash in hand and wanting to expand their hardware offerings. They've been pouring tons of money into gesture tracking web cams, x86 clones of Arduino, etc. all sorts of things.
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#5Damn't, that was my favorite watch on the market. Hopefully they support export of data :(
Re: Intel Acquires Basis Watch
#6Intel is clearly looking at wearable and embedded spaces. This seems like a lot to pay for something that doesn't have the install base of Fitbit, or Fuel. I can't imagine basis had any tech that Intel couldn't replicate, and this seems like too much for talent acquisition. Not what I would drop $100M on if I was Intel.
Word is Intel has one rule, and only one rule:
Keep the fab full
The rest of the company exists to feed the fab. So it doesn't surprise me, the lengths they are going in an effort to get Intel silicon into more devices (and more types of devices), especially after they missed the smartphone wave.
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#7Intel - where startups go to die.
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#8Wearable computing. Cutting edge technology. Wait a minute...
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#9Intel's been in the watch business before [0]. It didn't end well then, it probably won't end well now. Hey, at least they didn't spend $19 billion for a texting app.
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#10How does the Basis rank against the other smart watches out there ? I see it's priced higher, $199, where others come in at $100 - $150. The one difference I see is that it can do heart rate monitoring, and a lot of the competition can't (yet).
It's nice to see that they have an API to export your data too.