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God damn it. These fucking wearable pieces of shit need to stand on their own. They can’t be unrepairable, expensive, tethered pieces of shit that die when the battery refuses to charge.

No one wants garbage that only works with one website, and no one wants to pay for an uncontrollable device with a mind of its own.

If you have a free service on the internet, millions or perhaps even billions may clamour to use it. If you’re giving stuff out for free, people will happily try it out, if they have the option to throw it in the trash without consequence.

Make people pay for something? It better do what they want, when they want it, or you might have some pissed off people on your hands.



In short:

Getting people to spend their free time is relatively easy.

Getting people to spend their hard earned cash is very (very) difficult.

You'd think this would be obvious already :)




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