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A new version needs to have better buttons and please, please offer the option of a steel wrist strap. I've had Fitbits rendered useless because the plastic/silicone strap cracked and there was no way to replace it.
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I like my instinct, but Garmin is so locked down, less hackable than even an Apple Watch.
You can download the SDK and side load applications. No annual developer fee. Not sure how it’s more locked down.
Garmin has refused to fix this for many many years, and there's no games you can play with SDK that will help you fix it yourself
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not the reader though
It's strange to see the naivety around Reader. If Facebook had created it, people would recognise the initiative to gate-keep, regulate and curate the Wild West of RSS. "They're trying to keep you inside their walled garden!"
I never used the web interface.
Google Reader provided syncing for nearly every 3rd party RSS app.
It wasn’t just a walled garden. It was also critical infrastructure for most RSS apps at the time.
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Reader made tons of people use RSS who otherwise wouldn’t, and who now don’t. It did not live long enough to become a villain (though it certainly would have — there is no reason why G wouldn’t have added recommendations, an algo feed, and all it brings). Therefore it’s remembered well.
Reader died because people were switching to social media. Reader also had no vendor lock in at all. There’s no network effect like Facebook. There’s no massive infrastructure demands like Google. No corporate sales process like Oracle, Microsoft, etc. You could very easily create a competitor and after it died, few even tried to replace it. I miss it but not enough to find another RSS reader. You’re never really the…
It’s possible social media could have killed Reader.
But Reader died because Google killed anything that wasn’t directly contributing to Google+, and Reader was competition to Google+.
Also, I doubt Reader would have lost to social media. If Reader had stuck around it would most likely have been a Twitter alternative.
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While not disagreeing with what you said, such "grab a drink from the fridge" things are always in a monitored environment. There are no unlocked public fridges even hyper-high trust societies like Japan or Dubai.
No. In baltics, northern EU you can encounter countryside unsupervised apples, tomatoes and even honey where you take it and put money a box. No camera. Also, even with cameras, it is little help of I am a tourist. In Switzerland, I was in such a store in a mountain village. I visited there once - no point trying to find me if I stole something.