Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> yeah, I totally agree. I spent a lot of time reading reviews and basically *looking* for a reason to be excited about it, and came up empty. It has both a high dollar cost and a high social cost, even just at home, and neither of those seemed worth the benefits.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jeff" class="u-url mention">@<span>jeff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@jeffkibuule" class="u-url mention">@<span>jeffkibuule</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tapbots.social/@paul" class="u-url mention">@<span>paul</span></a></span> yeah, I wouldn’t touch the Humane pin because $700 and an ongoing $300 a year subscription for something that in the best case scenario, will be obsolete by a future iteration in a year, was a no. But $200? I mean, I backed the Ouya on Kickstarter.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@secretgeek" class="u-url mention">@<span>secretgeek</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon" class="u-url mention">@<span>danhon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> I genuinely and truly think that if it had been framed as a dev kit from the beginning, this would not be happening this way. You wouldn’t have the wave of stories of returns and eBay sales and not a single one sold in weeks. Instead, you’d prob have people actively trying to build more cool stuff for it. But the positioning as a ready to market device set expectations the launched product cannot match. And maybe that changes at wwdc, but momentum is lost.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> OH the self-discipline!</p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon" class="u-url mention">@<span>danhon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> It's like they deliberately create products where early adopters can skip the "hype" cycle, and go straight into the trough of disillusionment, as if it means they'll cross the chasm sooner.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon" class="u-url mention">@<span>danhon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> oh, to be clear, it was my main barrier, but less the dollar figure and more the lack of perceived value. I spent over $5000 on a 14” MBP in November. A stupid amount of money on a laptop (I sold my 2021 M1 Max for $2000, but still!), but I could justify that. Even with free financing and some ability to write it off, I just couldn’t find the value and I’m not rich enough to buy it as a toy.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@jeffkibuule" class="u-url mention">@<span>jeffkibuule</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tapbots.social/@paul" class="u-url mention">@<span>paul</span></a></span> I always YOLO and spend the VC money on shit like this. It will almost always die, even the best engineered and executed stuff (RIP, Pebble). So I most certainly set my expectations to zero she decide if the money is enough for me to risk.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> even still, $3k+ is a lot of price insensitivity these days</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> not that I’m implying that people like you and I are requirements for a hit product, but I can’t help but notice that a lot of early-adopter/enthusiast folks like us passed on this and while correlation does not imply causation, I do think the absence of some of us folks, especially those of us who aren’t particularly price sensitive, was a bad sign from the beginning.</p>