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Re:Jacquard by Google by belinder on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:48PM (#26157942)
it looks like it's a remote button that you can configure and attach to your clothes, then you can tap it and something on your phone happens (like play next song)
Re:Jacquard by Google by zeruch on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:49PM (#26160463)
It's IFTTT as a wearable...only expensive, dumber and likely an ethical/legal morass waiting to happen.
Re:Jacquard by Google by amelius on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:59PM (#26158074)
Can I configure it to send the notification to my own servers as opposed to Google's?
Re:Jacquard by Google by vntok on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:09PM (#26158200)
Probably not considering the blob talks to Jacquard's app. Then again, you are part of an incredibly insignificant tiny minority of prospective customers, completely out of that project's target market.

All in all, as someone who might want to use this product one day, I'd rather Google not spend their project's resources on never-buyers like yourself and instead spend those adding features and driving cost down for people that could be genuinely interested.

Re:Jacquard by Google by hobs on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:13PM (#26161326)
Haha, feel free to want that and then 3 years later the big G closing down your service and you wont be able to use it at all.
Re:Jacquard by Google by Ecto5 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:59AM (#26163518)
3 years is giving too much credit, we should be talking in terms of months
Re:Jacquard by Google by JetSpiegel on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:54PM (#26170807)
It won't even leave Beta.
Re:Jacquard by Google by amelius on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:29PM (#26158397)
> I'd rather Google not spend their project's resources on never-buyers like yourself and instead spend those adding features and driving cost down for people that could be genuinely interested.

Sure. And drop all open protocols and support only the proprietary ones while they're at it?

Re:Jacquard by Google by vntok on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:36PM (#26158480)
Not sure what your point is but in that case I'd rather go the obvious third way which is that they would support a subset of open protocols instead of all of them.
Re:Jacquard by Google by smoldesu on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:07PM (#26161269)
You may as well just Arduino one yourself at that point.
Re:Jacquard by Google by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:10PM (#26158209)
Can you imagine a Google developer suggesting adding that feature to the project manager?
Re:Jacquard by Google by machello13 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:20PM (#26160108)
Somehow sounds way less impressive when you put it like that.