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Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Re: Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Post by freehunter »

Decade wrote: post #49
freehunter wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you search Google for that term, you'll find out how common it actually is. The first few results I see: Pearson Kentucky Fried Chicken Instagram Western Michigan University Florida State University Call of Duty NFL MIT City and County of San Francisco Cloudflare Yahoo WoWHead So whatever your uncertainty about it, it's not an uncommon legal concept, and you may already have agreed to it in the ToS of another serv…

The other companies don't claim to be hacker-friendly, except for MIT, nor do they try to forbid you from making your own thing or practicing free speech. Pearson sucks. Why would anybody want to be compared to Pearson?

Okay, this conversation is over. You said it was an uncommon clause in a legal document, I showed that it wasn't and tried to comfort your fears, and that's as far as I'm willing to take it. You seem like you have an agenda against Pebble for something other than what is being stated, and I'm not going to get into that.

Re: Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Post by Decade »

freehunter wrote: post #51
Decade wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The other companies don't claim to be hacker-friendly, except for MIT, nor do they try to forbid you from making your own thing or practicing free speech. Pearson sucks. Why would anybody want to be compared to Pearson?

Okay, this conversation is over. You said it was an uncommon clause in a legal document, I showed that it wasn't and tried to comfort your fears, and that's as far as I'm willing to take it. You seem like you have an agenda against Pebble for something other than what is being stated, and I'm not going to get into that.

Eh, second page now, being pedantic is fine.

I didn't say it was uncommon. I said that I didn't see it before. Especially not in connection with the other clauses. I canceled my order before I even reached Section XIV.

I do have a mild case of Internet-rage at Pebble, but it's not unstated. I said it at the beginning of my first post in this thread: They cultivated an image of being hacker-friendly, but they're as restrictive as Apple and Google. It felt like a betrayal of principles.

Re: Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Post by _cpancake »

akerl_ wrote: post #6
keithwhor wrote: post #5

Is that really a fair comparison? The Pebble Time kickstarter campaign was just a pre-order portal in disguise --- it wasn't really a "true" crowdfunding campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman What facet of being "true" crowdfunding did they not satisfy?

Using fallacies while not understanding them makes you look like an idiot. Just FYI.

Re: Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Post by ssalazar »

diego_moita wrote: post #17

It is ironic how Pebble looks a lot more like an Apple product than the AppleWatch itself. Apple made a product that aligns with its long term strategies but delivers very poorly the most fundamental and essential functionality. The AppleWatch has short battery life, its screen is not always on, is not waterproof, its interface is not intuitive... And what we get in return? You can send your heartbeat through bluetoo…

> It is ironic how Pebble looks a lot more like an Apple product than the AppleWatch itself.

Im not sure how you could look at the pictures of the Pebble and make this conclusion. The on-screen UI is hideous. It looks like a feature-phone from the early 2000s. Pebble Steel has nice industrial design, but again totally ugly screen and UI.

Re: Pebble has recaptured the top spot for most-funded project on Kickstarter

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Post by supercoder »

diego_moita wrote: post #17

It is ironic how Pebble looks a lot more like an Apple product than the AppleWatch itself. Apple made a product that aligns with its long term strategies but delivers very poorly the most fundamental and essential functionality. The AppleWatch has short battery life, its screen is not always on, is not waterproof, its interface is not intuitive... And what we get in return? You can send your heartbeat through bluetoo…

"It is ironic how Pebble looks a lot more like an Apple product than the AppleWatch itself."

No.

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