$2million in an hour. Is that a record? (What else has sold anywhere near this fast?)
I think that answers the question "Is the market ready for smart watches?"
Introducing Pebble Time
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#92Honestly I find it real hard to believe that they sold over 13K pebbles in less than an hour. imho it doesn't make sense.
They have a great product, but not 13K / 60 min great
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#93Honestly I find it real hard to believe that they sold over 13K pebbles in less than an hour. imho it doesn't make sense. They have a great product, but not 13K / 60 min great
The evidence suggests otherwise.
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#94I've owned an original pebble for a couple weeks now, but I'm still skeptical on their usefulness. I save maybe 5-10 minutes of time per week by being able to check the weather forecast or dismiss non-urgent emails and texts using my watch instead of having to pull my phone out of my pocket, but that's about the only benefit I'm seeing so far.
Maybe a smartwatch would be more useful to me if I was more popular and had calendar events to keep track of or more friends who contacted me regularly, but as your typical socially-isolated introvert software engineer, this thing seems to have limited utility.
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#95The killer feature here is something that no one is talking about!
>We've included a soft silicone band with each Pebble Time, but all standard 22mm watch bands will fit. All new Pebble watch bands include a quick-release pin, letting you swap bands in under 10 seconds.
Standard watch bands is something that most other wearables aren't embracing. This makes the Pebble significantly more enticing.
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#96I'll admit to being disappointed. After the Pebble Steel I thought they were going to take appearances seriously, but the Pebble Time barely even looks better than the original Pebble. Maybe if they make a Pebble Time Steel it'll be the one for me (and the sales figures suggest plenty do not agree with me).
That said, kudos to them for getting it out and being independent competition to Android Wear and the Apple Watch. We need that.
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#97"We will ship Pebble Time worldwide, with the exception of Cuba, Myanmar/Burma, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and Russia." Russia?
Doesn't the US still have an embargo on Russia for the whole Ukraine thing? I find Cuba to be interesting. I thought we ended that embargo in December.
The embargo might have ended, but perhaps all of the details are not yet in place to make it practical. Customs forms need to be reprinted (whether paper or electronic). Are UPS and other carriers ready to go? And so on. An entire generation of US businesses and people have never done business with Cuba, that isn't going to change overnight...or even in a few months.
Or maybe the Pebble founders just don't like Fidel.
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#99The main value prop over the Apple Watch and current Android wear appears to be the battery life. They're advertising over 7 days on a charge, which is certainly better than whatever the Apple Watch will be in terms of battery life. I just worry about the market for apps after the introduction of apple's watch around the same time.
My current Pebble works for four days without any problems. Frequently longer. So if they can increase that to 7 days and I can charge once per week then I'll be even happier. But largely I like the idea of a colour one.
They advertised "up to 7 days" of battery for the original pebble, too.