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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by AdamGibbins on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:48AM (#2015369)
Sigh, yet another almost ready :(

Glad to see stuff progressing though and the update is hugely appreciated.

Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by jlgosse on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:09AM (#2015411)
If you've been following the blog lately you'd know we have been updating quite frequently with important information. I think that everyone is going to be very happy in the very near future.
Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by davidu on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:33AM (#2015457)
too late for this audience. maybe the mass market that has never heard of them will be kinder. but I doubt it.

too little, too late.

they didn't have the right people to execute on this, and from what I can tell, they still don't.

Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by johnrob on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:56AM (#2015499)
I disagree. The product concept hasn't changed; it's still the same idea that all these boo-birds loved a year or two ago. Maybe they've burned bridges with some early adopters, but the other 99.99% of America will never know about that.
Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by eclark on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:27AM (#2015548)
The other 99.9% of the world will never hear about it because their early adopter friends aren't going to recommend this.
Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by davidu on Friday December 17, 2010 @11:39AM (#2016692)
I made that point, so actually you agree.

I also made the point that they've failed to execute so far, which reduces my faith in their ability to all of the sudden start executing well. Perhaps that's what you disagree with? In which case, you are more of an optimist than I am. :-)

Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by jlgosse on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:41AM (#2016143)
I don't think it's fair of you to comment on the people involved in the execution of this. What do you know about anyone on the WakeMate team?
Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by davidu on Friday December 17, 2010 @11:40AM (#2016695)
It's entirely fair. If I knew them, I'd keep my mouth shut, because I don't talk negatively about friends.

And it's entirely fair because I know what I see. And that's more than enough to gauge their execution.

Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by Devilboy on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:49AM (#2015493)
The ONLY important information at this stage is the shipping date.
Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by nodata on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:28AM (#2015633)
This update is really good though. They address pretty much all of the open issues. The only thing they have to watch out for is people who respond to the email faster skipping the queue, but I'm sure they've sorted that.