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Two new PebbleOS watches

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Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#271
I had an OG pebble, it was a gift from a conference. An amazing product, more Apple than Apple in terms of making clear tradeoffs to provide real utility & design quality.

Reading this press release I thought -- they perfectly read the minds of the target customer. Retaining the spirit of the product and exceeding expectations with polished improvements.

Great job guys! I'm in

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#272
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I was interested in NFC payments using a smartwatch. Do these watches support NFC payment? I didn't see any mention of it.

Personally I never found myself using my NFC payment watch. It felt like if I was venturing far enough to the store, I'm just going to bring my phone with me anyways. I wonder if this differs for areas that don't get as much suburban sprawl.

I personally don't use NFC payment at all. I just can't see the utility in it. If I leave the house I have my wallet, and I find it easier to take my card out of my wallet than to fiddle with NFC on my phone.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#273

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That makes no sense. Profit, by definition, is net. If you still have to pay costs out of some money, then it isn't profit .

Gross and net profit are each their own concept: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/101314/what-are-dif...

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#274
i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble.

it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high.

The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#275

i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble. it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high. The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.

Apple Watch doesn't work on Android, and Android Wear watches are laggy garbage with stupid round screens. There are zero good options on the Android side, so something like Pebble\Core has value.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#277

i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble. it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high. The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.

Apple Watches start at $250 and up to over $1k, pebbleOS offers way more functionality and 10x battery life, they’re not overlapping audiences

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#278

i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble. it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high. The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.

The Pebble Time was $150 and the Time Steel was $250.

That was also 10 years of inflation ago.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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That makes no sense. Profit, by definition, is net. If you still have to pay costs out of some money, then it isn't profit .

It's absolutely essential to be able to differentiate between gross profit and net profit to establish unit economics, especially as the scale of a newly founded operation may drastically change relative to some amount of fixed capex or SG&A expense.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

#280

i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble. it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high. The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.

Apple Watches start at $250 and up to over $1k, pebbleOS offers way more functionality and 10x battery life, they’re not overlapping audiences

Sorry but while I won’t argue the battery life angle, you really cannot say that the PebbleOS offers significantly more functionality than WatchOS. It just ain’t so.
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