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Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by 4ndrewl »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #272
isjustintime wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wonder if this is a nationality thing? In the UK I'd say ~30% of sales are done via phones/watches these days.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by Alive-in-2025 »

DecentShoes wrote: post #283
greetings wrote: post #36

Are there any plans for a circular screen? I would love one of these devices, but the screen feels like it may be bulky on my wrist.

I don't understand this in the slightest. There's no advantage whatsoever to a round screen, but tons of disadvantages. Why not make your phone screen round? Why not make your computer screen round? Your TV? Please, Core, resist the temptation to enshittify yourself with another useless round screen.

Because the larger market of watch buyers end up buying way way more round watches than square or other shapes, thus a lager market of buyers and prices are probably lower. I don't really care though. It doesn't matter for these kinds of low sales boutique devices. I ordered one ;-)

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by nosrepa »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #232

> Core 2 Duo Cringe... Why do people _do_ this? You should make it _easier_ to search for you product.

Tangentially, that reminded me of my days back when I frequented a forum for Rio digital audio players. When the company got sold off, an engineer leaked an unreleased firmware without the company's permission. We all had a laugh when the engineer decided to go by the name of "Nestle tollhouse".

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

KAMSPioneer wrote: post #273
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #256

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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...

What they call "gross profit" is not profit, by definition. It's certainly useful to track $revenue-$cost_of_goods, but you can't call that profit. People are free to use words incorrectly, but they shouldn't expect anyone else to go along with them.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

roboror wrote: post #300
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #256

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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 .

You can't run a business based on dictionary definitions.

You most certainly can, and you should.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

4ndrewl wrote: post #301
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wonder if this is a nationality thing? In the UK I'd say ~30% of sales are done via phones/watches these days.

That's fascinating to me, because many times I've tried to do that it's an exercise in frustration. Terminals don't always have the sensor in the same spot, phones sometimes don't register the connection, and so on. Maybe things work better in the UK?

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by poisonborz »

Any chance of wireless charging? I can't imagine it being so complicated or expensive... tho most smartwatches come with custom pins so there has to be a reason.

Worst aspect of these watches are the custom charging cradles you have to lug around when travelling.

Hell, even usb-c with some cap/sliding door mechanism would be better.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by lopis »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #306
roboror wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't run a business based on dictionary definitions.

You most certainly can, and you should.

Please hire an accountant asap if you ever start a business. Things don't mean what you think they mean in accounting. You are wrong and insist you are right despite multiple people pointing it out to you.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by garaetjjte »

1024core wrote: post #69
varbhat wrote: post #9

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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.

The chip inside claims to support Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee. Maybe someone can hack together a payments app using the NFC?

Maybe you could reverse-engineer HCE from bank Android app, but that would be rather fragile.
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