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Re: Introducing Pebble Time

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Post by tomhenderson »

VLM wrote: post #173
VikingCoder wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> voice isn't that reliable Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota and sound like Don LaFontaine, but Google's voice recognition is easily 95% or better for me. Probably closer to 98%, even on spoken sentences for sending emails or texts. When I'm navigating, or trying to call someone, it's closer to 99%.

Your post has 47 words. A 95% success rate means 1 in 20 failure, so you're going to have to stop, swear, fix it, and restart dictation about two or three times in your post. Even the somewhat optimistic 99% still gives only a systemic fifty fity odds of your post being error free. Its just too annoying for most people to use. What voice recognition reminds me of, is a disobedient / distracted little kid, the kind yo…

> A 95% success rate means 1 in 20 failure

I'm not sure my success rate is any better than that typing on my iPhone.

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Post by feld »

myth_buster wrote: post #269
feld wrote: post #252

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What's the range on that smartwatch before it is disconnected from your phone?

We have not tested it in the open. Inside home it stays connected when I'm in kitchen and the phone is in bedroom. It has also stayed connected when I went out to my car which was across my patio.

that's incredible; much better than I would have guessed.

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Post by feld »

angryasian wrote: post #222
georgeecollins wrote: post #49

What I think is good about this is that they are thinking of a new paradigm for UI on a wearable. For Android Wear devices it feels like Google just decided that voice was going to take care of UI, and no decisions about physical controls needed to be made. But there are two problems: voice isn't that reliable, and more importantly, there are a lot of situations where you want to use your watch but not talk to it.

I can't disagree more. 4 big buttons in comparison to a touch screen is not new and actually backwards.

Touch screens are not the solution for every problem.

I just saw a TV show the other day where the bomb squad was driving a robot with an iPad. Yes, all driving input and finite movement of the robot arms was done on a touch screen.

Terrible idea; nobody would do that in real life.

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Post by [deleted] »

baldeagle wrote: post #171
eitally wrote: post #151

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I really just want a "normal" watch that has some "smart" features. I already have a sports tracker (Garmin Forerunner), and I have given up wearing my Moto360 because it's almost never useful in compelling enough ways that I don't just pull my phone out after seeing a notification ... and I have to charge it nightly.

If you want a normal watch combined with a fitbit, check out: http://www.withings.com/us/withings-activite.html

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Post by georgeecollins »

angryasian wrote: post #222
georgeecollins wrote: post #49

What I think is good about this is that they are thinking of a new paradigm for UI on a wearable. For Android Wear devices it feels like Google just decided that voice was going to take care of UI, and no decisions about physical controls needed to be made. But there are two problems: voice isn't that reliable, and more importantly, there are a lot of situations where you want to use your watch but not talk to it.

I can't disagree more. 4 big buttons in comparison to a touch screen is not new and actually backwards.

A touch screen that is 1.5" square is effectively four buttons.. without the tactile feedback.

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Post by DenisM »

As I look at the total pledge amount climbing higher and higher, at $5.5m presently, I can't help but think that VCs and bankers got completely cut out of the "deal". It used to be that you had to please a whole bunch of finance guys to get anything done, but this time they weren't even invited to the table. It's a big change.

I also keep thinking about other ways in which the financial sector can get disintermediated. Bootstrapping is always an option, if a very long and arduous one. To speed things up there is Kickstarter in b2c, but what about b2b? Are there ways to get the future beneficiaries of a new b2b product to fund its development, and that don't involve spending 6 month to raise funding? It always bothered me that funding decisions are usually made by people who know a lot about finance and, as a rule, very little about the target market. Surely there is a lot of potential there for the insiders of the target industry?

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Post by agumonkey »

mikestew wrote: post #130

I was waiting to see what Apple had in store but...oh, what the hell, I'll pull the trigger. Fact is, I'm pretty satisfied with my original KS-backer edition Pebble. Apple is going to have to have a pretty convincing story for me to charge a watch every single day. I spend enough time away from 5VDC power sources that such short battery life could become occasionally annoying. The original Pebble does what I want it…

The peeble seems to be mainstream ready, watching their videos, I felt like buying this just like buying a casio watch in the 90s. It seems sturdy, functional, fits the trends of the day just enough, not too expensive.

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Post by tomasien »

DenisM wrote: post #287

As I look at the total pledge amount climbing higher and higher, at $5.5m presently, I can't help but think that VCs and bankers got completely cut out of the "deal". It used to be that you had to please a whole bunch of finance guys to get anything done, but this time they weren't even invited to the table. It's a big change. I also keep thinking about other ways in which the financial sector can get disintermediate…

I believe someone setting up a way to broker first customers to become stakeholders in new companies for pre-paying for services would be huge. I've been in a situation where that would have been totally warranted and valuable, but instead we had to spend months proving to that customer other ways that working with us was properly de-risked. They would have been happy to just take the risk if there was a plug and play model to reward them for it, and I think many other companies are in similar situations (depending on what part of their business you touch/would effect).

Another model that I do not personally believe in but seems promising to others I respect is https://assembly.com - they work to bring teams together to build things and have gamified equity comp. You can even go in there and squash an important bug on a project and get equity in the project forever (ostensibly) for doing it based on the "bounty" that is set.

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