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Re:What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble by r00fus on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:17PM (#13202300)
There's focus and there are killer apps.

For the Apple Watch, I use it for 3 main things: 1) fitness - it's a great motivator in addition to Strava (I don't record all my activity like walks in Strava). 2) Wunderground complication + timetravel is fantastic 3) Duologin for 2nd factor is much easier than the iPhone.

Pebble failed because Apple made the watch into a iPhone accessory and Apple Watch was better integrated than the Pebble.

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Re:What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble by WWLink on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:27PM (#13208830)
Yeah, and once Apple decided to sell their own watch, the hope that anyone else would be able to successfully integrate their smartwatch with the iPhone went out the window, unfortunately.

I hate these stupid ecosystems. There are times I want to use Prime Video on an Apple TV and then stream from a PC or something odd like that. Maybe I want to use an Apple watch with an Android phone..

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