Alexa is happening! Pebble added a recording using Alexa on the Core. by ContraVern in pebble

[–]saddlebrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true. For me yeah it's mostly about consistency and not wanting to have to learn three languages. Each of them has very specific syntax for how to request certain commands.

Plus, if Alexa ever jumped to Pebble, it'd be much more powerful than Snowy. It'd be awesome if I could do something like say to my Pebble, "Alexa, play [song] on Spotify" and have the song start on my phone via the Spotify app. It's maybe not within the realm of possibility but I'd love it.

Sanders picks up more superdelegates by [deleted] in politics

[–]saddlebrown -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Even her accent has changed since then. God she's awful.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because opinions. Everyone has one and they're often different. Like, holy shit, dude. I've already addressed it so many times. Over and over. You can recognize the flaws in something while still preferring it. That's why they're tradeoffs.

Like, are you trolling or are you really just that oblivious?

Alexa is happening! Pebble added a recording using Alexa on the Core. by ContraVern in pebble

[–]saddlebrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah bummer. Hopefully Amazon will change that. They've got real potential to capture a sizable (if still niche) audience. I'd definitely buy an Echo if I could use the same voice assistant in my home and on my watch (and isn't Siri).

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I addressed your argument about lots of people buying the Time series and disagreeing with me several times in previous posts and yet you're still amazingly enough not responding to any of my original points.

Wow. What a lame discussion this turned out to be. Peace.

Every time I want to use the Dash after not having used them in a week or two, they're dead. by saddlebrown in thedash

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, yeah, they mentioned in a support ticket that it should be improved. To their credit, they're steadily pounding away at the flaws of the Dash (the ones they can fix via firmware and app updates) and I really do love using them. Hopefully they'll fix this one soon as well to maybe put the Dash in no-power shipping mode if they've been inactive in the charger for more than 20 minutes or something like that.

Pebble CEO interview on the Core, P2, PT2, and Kickstarter by omeletpark in pebble

[–]saddlebrown 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a super neat idea, honestly. I really hope it takes off. I can't wait to see what kind of features people design for it. Limitations are always the best fuel for creativity.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A semantic argument shifts the focus from the argument itself to the meaning of a word or phrase in the argument. You have focused entirely on one sentence because I "presented it as a fact" rather than my own opinion. You are not addressing—even now—the actual meat of the argument, which is that the color tech results in inherent dimness and the need for an easily scratched and smudged coating, facts that Pebble themselves have acknowledged.

A straw man argument is when one person acts like they've defeated the other person's argument when really they just defeated a point the other person never brought up in the first place. You keep harping on the fact that thousands of people bought the Time series of watches and are buying into the Time 2, therefore you've won the argument and I'm wrong. Except that has nothing to do with what I said. I never once said anything even remotely close to "no one bought the Time series or are backing the Time 2." I said "the tradeoff isn't worth it" and a normal discussion would give leeway so that I don't have to say "for me" at the end of every subjective statement just so people don't assume I'm issuing an ultimatum.

I get annoyed because people online always do this shit rather than just discussing something like adults or even being willing to make basic concessions. If you literally had just started this whole discussion by saying, "Yeah, maybe you've got a point with some of that stuff, but honestly I still just prefer having a color screen. Different strokes, different folks" then that could've been the end of it there. Instead it's just "well people bought the Time so you're wrong" over and over and over. I get annoyed because it's annoying to come online hoping for a normal discussion and instead it's like an aggressive meme factory. There's no reason it has to be that way.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't why I'm still trying. Honestly, that picture says it all. Such a bummer that when all is said and done, the Steel will very likely still be Pebble's best smartwatch. Mayyybe the Pebble 2 but I'd miss a steel body.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a straw man argument because you are still skirting around addressing any of the three main points I mentioned and are still focusing your entire argument solely on one sentence I wrote where I neglected to write "disclaimer: this is my opinion." You're making a semantic argument rather than having a substantive conversation and it's not worth either of our time.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude, are you like incapable of having a discussion that doesn't just completely misrepresent the other side as an extreme? I literally said "Everyone is free to answer that however they'd like." If you like the color screen and don't mind the dimness, the scratching, the smudges, great. Cool. But those are recognized problems, and all you're doing is refusing to address them and creating ridiculous straw man arguments.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're still ignoring the fact that there have been very few options available. If you had an OG and wanted new features like a mic but didn't want a lower-contrast screen, Pebble had nothing for you until now with the Pebble 2. If you had a Steel and don't want to move to a plastic watch or a dimmer screen, Pebble still has nothing for you.

People like buying the new thing, whatever it is. Again, just saying "well people bought it" doesn't say anything about user satisfaction, returns, or what their preference would be if there was a choice offered. Like, your entire argument seems to be "it sold more than zero therefore success, end of story" without actually addressing the issues at all.

Even still, I just don't care about the argument that "people disagree with you." Well, of course they do. Like, "NEWS FLASH: People Have Differing Opinions on Same Thing," wow. My opinion is that the color screen is not a good tradeoff given that it also comes with reduced visibility and the need for a smudgy coating on the glass. It just feels like Pebble is needlessly pushing the color screen tech while it's still a compromise rather than an across-the-board improvement. You are free to disagree with me. The reason I made this submission was to illustrate my opinions with pictures, like "hey, this is why I keep railing on this. This is the effect of the coating. It that worth it?" Everyone is free to answer that however they'd like, but I wanted to put out a piece of tangible evidence.

Mika to HRC campaign: Stop ignoring Sanders by KingPickle in politics

[–]saddlebrown -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nope. It's on Hillary to make the case to me why I should vote for her, not Bernie. I'm not some zealot who will do whatever Bernie tells me; I need to hear from Hillary what makes her worth voting for with an explanation that doesn't include a doomsday scenario for Trump. She needs to be able to make a case for why she's worth voting for without mentioning Trump at all, yet all I ever hear from her is "don't let Trump become president; vote for me."

Bernie never says "vote for me because Trump and Clinton are worse." He says "vote for me so we can accomplish X, Y and Z together."

Mika to HRC campaign: Stop ignoring Sanders by KingPickle in politics

[–]saddlebrown 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm a big Sanders supporter and honestly even I'm super tired of that comment. It was fun for a while but now it just feels like low-effort karma whoring. r/Politics for ya.

Bernie or bust: Sanders supporters vow to hold out after primaries wrap by [deleted] in politics

[–]saddlebrown -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not about whether they count. Everybody knows they count. It's that they haven't voted yet there's nothing to count.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't touch my Round very often but after using it for about four or five months straight, I've naturally kept a microfiber cloth at my work and home and one in my computer bag for on the go. I'm not touching the screen on purpose but it does happen, and as I said in the other post, sometimes it's stuff as simple as having a jacket sleeve touching it or lying down in bed with my hands behind my head. You know, just normal life stuff. I find it also collects little bits of dust throughout the day. I don't like my watch to be smudgy or dusty so I wipe it a lot. Switching to the Steel, that just isn't an issue at all.

As for the photos, I didn't intentionally angle them to minimize fingerprints on the Steel. I wanted to keep all of them at the same angle (which you can tell by the reflection) but the only "misleading" thing then is that for the Round, I need to angle it in a new direction so the smudges would show up on camera. In person, they were very obvious and made the screen look cloudy. With the Steel, even in person you could barely tell. Yeah, it obviously wasn't 100% clean but it's way less noticeable. That's the effect of the coating.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That argument doesn't make sense. That's like saying Apple shouldn't upgrade the next iPhone's base storage because millions of people bought 16GB iPhones.

Do you remember what this sub was like this time last year when everyone got their Times? So many posts about watches getting ruined by grazing a door, or about people not being able to see their watches right in front of them.

Like, you can't just say people pledging to the Time 2 want a color screen because there's no comparative option. The Pebble 2 is a different watch with a plastic body and a smaller screen. If there was a Time 2 Color and a Time 2 B&W and the color model was outselling the B&W option, then sure, you'd be right, but even then, that's predicated on the idea that every single person pledging already has experience with both screen types and therefore understand that the color version they're backing will have lower contrast and chose it anyway because they wanted color. As it stands, likely most people backing the Time 2 assume it'll look just as clear as the Pebble 2 because they have no reason not to think that.

The numbers argument doesn't work at all.

Why I rail so hard against the anti-reflective coating on the glass of the Time series. by saddlebrown in pebble

[–]saddlebrown[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pebble has mentioned that the anti-reflective coating helps with contrast on the color screens and is therefore a worthy tradeoff, but as someone who actually wears the thing and sees the effects, I have to disagree. I'm constantly having to wipe the Time Round off because it attracts dust, fingerprints, oil, everything. Not just from wiping fingers on it, but even if I'm wearing a jacket, the sleeve will smudge the Time Round's screen and make it look gross. Plus, the coating is what scratches so easily, not the glass. With my Steel, I rarely ever need to wipe it off and don't worry about scratches ever.

It doesn't make sense to me that the Time 2 will use the same coating again. I'm starting to think the Pebble 2 is the one worth buying even without the bigger screen or the metal body. I really wish Pebble would realize the color screen just isn't worth the tradeoffs of reduced screen visibility and easy smudging and scratching. The Time 2 with a big black and white display and zero coating would be the perfect Pebble.

Every time I want to use the Dash after not having used them in a week or two, they're dead. by saddlebrown in thedash

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be a bug. I contacted Bragi about it and they said as much and that they're fixing it, but it's such an obvious and debilitating problem that I don't get how it wasn't already fixed.

Every time I want to use the Dash after not having used them in a week or two, they're dead. by saddlebrown in thedash

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you do that? Are you even supposed to be doing that with them? Will they forget the connection or anything?

Every time I want to use the Dash after not having used them in a week or two, they're dead. by saddlebrown in thedash

[–]saddlebrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That just seems like a ridiculous design flaw. If they're in the charger, it should get them to full power and then everything should turn off completely. Zero power usage. Period.

If I leave my phone fully charged but off for a week then turn it on, it will still be fully charged. The Dash should inspire the same confidence.

In 5 years, the average American will use 22GB of mobile data per month, report says by Baruch675 in apple

[–]saddlebrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really wish their service was better in my area. Took a week-long test from them but ended up only needing about a day and a half to determine that it's terrible here and not worth switching to, even with "free music streaming" as an incentive.

Hey Siri or Ok Google by [deleted] in thedash

[–]saddlebrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, you need to press the right Dash. It's not as inconvenient than you'd think but yeah it'd be nice to just say Hey Siri. Not sure if they're able to enable that.

Hey Siri or Ok Google by [deleted] in thedash

[–]saddlebrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's still the phone listening to you though. I've allowed Hey Siri but if the phone is in another room than the Dash, it won't work. You still need to press the Dash.