It's hard to believe, for me, but I know there will be people lined up to buy this hideous device. I think we all, here, fail to realize how large a percentage of internet user are utterly clueless about the tech and how it's being used.
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Facebook Working on Smart Watch With Detachable Display and Two Built-In Cameras
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My god. I think for once this place is united and agrees on something!
This is fantastic. Maybe one of the cameras should be a parabolic microphone to emphasize 'listening' as well.
Facebook is a gross company. Why on earth would anyone want this level of anxiety with them 24/7
Why would anybody want Facebook to know where they are 24x7? The spying they already do is obnoxious. This product will fail.
Not because of spying, Facebook users either don’t know or don’t care about that. It’ll fail because who wants a watch tied to an app when you can have one tied to your mobile device and do more with it instead? I’m not seeing the value proposition for Facebook when users can and do already have the option of a Samsung Watch, a Google Watch or an Apple Watch instead at the same or at a lower price point. Maybe if they gave it away some would be willing to wear it but nobody is going to pay $400 for this thing.
Not because of spying, Facebook users either don’t know or don’t care about that. It’ll fail because who wants a watch tied to an app when you can have one tied to your mobile device and do more with it instead? I’m not seeing the value proposition for Facebook when users can and do already have the option of a Samsung Watch, a Google Watch or an Apple Watch instead at the same or at a lower price point. Maybe if they gave it away some would be willing to wear it but nobody is going to pay $400 for this thing.
The developers at Facebook must be all kinds of stupid if they think 95% of users opting out of being tracked on their phones are going to suddenly want pay them hundreds of dollars for the opportunity to be tracked on their wrist.
Why do I keep getting visions of the pointy haired boss from Dilbert being in charge of this project?
Why do I keep getting visions of the pointy haired boss from Dilbert being in charge of this project?
When Zuck unveils this, I hope he strides onto the stage as “Every Breath You Take” comes in over the speakers.
yet I bet over 70% of the people on this site is still on FB..just to embarrassed to admit it
Kind of funny how we've got 100 comments all saying the same thing about how horrible Facebook is, but we all know that half of them are from hypocrites that use Google products.
Most of the rest use DuckDuckGo and then there's other random search engines the rest use.
Anyways... it seems to me that this device is supposed to kind of be a smart-everything, not just a smartwatch or a smartphone. It's supposed to be attached to accessories to give the smart-form-factor you want at whatever time of day. The concept is intriguing. I could be persuaded to buy it, but I probably won't... I find it unlikely that it'll really do much of anything better than my iPhone and/or Apple Watch, or that it'll really have game changing features.
I think Neuralink is going to be the next (last?) tech frontier... that'll change everything.
Most of the rest use DuckDuckGo and then there's other random search engines the rest use.
Anyways... it seems to me that this device is supposed to kind of be a smart-everything, not just a smartwatch or a smartphone. It's supposed to be attached to accessories to give the smart-form-factor you want at whatever time of day. The concept is intriguing. I could be persuaded to buy it, but I probably won't... I find it unlikely that it'll really do much of anything better than my iPhone and/or Apple Watch, or that it'll really have game changing features.
I think Neuralink is going to be the next (last?) tech frontier... that'll change everything.