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Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch by MBCook on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:40PM (#33454611)
Right. Apple sold 46.1 million Apple Watched last year alone.

There are always people who mourn the Pebble and I understand why. But the market has clearly shown you don’t need a week of battery life to be successful.

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Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch by palata on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:06PM (#33459226)
The market works in mysterious ways :). That also explains why ElectronJS is so successful.
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Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch by fennecfoxy on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:28AM (#33504498)
People will buy whatever Apple makes lmao.

But in all seriousness it's the general public's lack of foresight to care about the direction these products go, they don't know what they're sacrificing all they see is shiny oled, whizzbang animations.

Same as the general apathy towards right to repair, the general public doesn't give two shits because they can't connect the dots: right to repair---->I can take it to the repair shop around the corner. Normies that hear about it will just think "well I'm not repairing stuff myself anyway".

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