I Really want to go for this one but I think I’m going to wait on it until it’s closer to release. I hate waiting on a pre-order for that long haha! It’s going to be pretty awesome to have new functions like a touch screen for added gesture control.
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As a general reminder, don’t pre-order. Never pay for something that doesn’t already, currently exist.
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HAH! i agree but i have zero impulse control- i already preordered a Crucial Maple literally only because of how excited i was around the design.
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As someone who has a 3d printer on pre order and a few different YoYo’s on pre order I resent this statement. Then again I generally trust the YoYo folks. Like g2 hasn’t done me wrong yet. Figure there’s no reason for him to start.
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I suppose, like all rules, exceptions apply
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I get your point though. I don’t know the pebble guys nor do I know how legit this project is. It’s as much of a gamble as throwing money at kickstarter hoping they fulfill the rewards or buying a pre order from someone who makes YoYo’s your not familiar with.
I think I’ll take a chance on a b&w and worse case I’ll lose some cash but that’s my risk tolerance. I’m looking at it similar to a casino maybe I’ll win maybe I’ll lose but I’m willing to toss some cash into the pit and see what happens
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Personally, I don’t like pre-ordering (not that I don’t do it, exceptions and all that jazz), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good cases, like smaller, but known companies or companies with a good track record for following up on delivering on promises. Personally, I think the drive for “don’t pre-order” is typically levied against large companies that can full well afford to front the cost and also afford to eat the loss of the product/service doesn’t pan out like marketing/research suggested (Like Apple and Samsung; Why they need pre-order? They’re multi-b/tillion dollar companies) as well as significantly smaller, unknown companies (pretty much public crowdfunding)
And don’t even get me started on games.
Also, of note, in the aforementioned link above, this doesn’t look like this is an actual Pebble by the same company, it just so happens that Pebble proper open sourced their OS
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Agreed on this. I can’t fathom pre ordering an iPhone.
Also yes this isn’t pebble as they technically sold the company to google but it is the founder Eric Migicovsky using the now open source pebble OS he sold to google and his watch design experience which gives me hope it’s similar enough. A company is just a name and maybe a product or idea (even if the federal government classifies them as people) and people are what make a company. If you lose everyone who made a company what it is the company has to pivot or will struggle to maintain its identity.
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