http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/

So when will APPLE recreate the spot watch and gain critical acclaim and "ingenious design" praise?]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/in SWATCH INTERNET TIME.
Or is it my fault to recall these sad memories of swatch?
Neither SPOT or SIT was successful.]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
Tell me again, why should anyone be an early adopter for new Microsoft technology initiatives?]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
It's awesome, as long as your willing to buy into the system]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
Don't bother, no matter how many Apple failures - Newton, Lisa, cell phones with iTunes [not the iPhone], Nike+iPod (do you know anyone that has one?), Apple TV, etc. - those dismal failures will be overlooked. But Microsoft failures, mean the company is doomed. WinMobile sells more in a quarter than iPhone has to date, and the iPhone is a wild success in their eyes, while WinMobile is a failure. OSX sales are abysmal compared to Vista, but to them Vista is a failure while OSX will take over the world. Zune Pass was useless until it was rumored that Apple was doing the same. Shadow copy is just a copy of time machine (even though Shadow Copy was out before). The Jobs © invented the MP3 player (even though there were many before it). Microsoft patents something, and it is blatantly obvious, ripping off prior art, and the Patent system needs to be thrown out, Apple patents something and they are just protecting their IP. Microsoft DRM system is evil, Apple DRM system is fair, and so on, and so on.

Oh, and if you point these out, you are just drinking the Kool-Aid, but the Apple fans, they only think for themselves and do not take their marching orders from The Jobs ©. ]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
What is more interesting is the Zune toss-in, which the previous poster felt the urgent need to discuss as well. Why do you guys always feel the need to defend your choice in buying the Zune? Do you honestly think anyone really cares? It's the #3 player in the portable player market, which is a great accomplishment within itself. But it doesn't really answer the question posed by Samurai, which is why would you buy into a new product knowing full and well that Microsoft shafted all of its previous (MSN Music) customers, in addition to those that have enjoyed their PlaysForSure music for so many years?]]>Apr 23rd 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
So If my laptop gets stolen, I can use shadow copy to retrieve my files from the external drive I plug in every night?

Oh wait...

shadow copy copies your stuff on the same drive as the original file.

]]>Apr 23rd 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
So anybody defending Microsoft is wrong, but somebody bashing them is OK? Where are your comments telling Samurai that he should not be bashing Microsoft? Anybody says anything anti-Apple, and the rabid Apple fanboys attack, but anybody says anything wrong positive about Microsoft, and they are attacked? Typical double-standard of the Apple fanboys. Looking over your posting history, you have made posts defending Apple, but that is OK?

You ask why I need to justify my Zune purchase. I bought a Zune 1, and liked it so much better than my old iPod I bought a Zune 2. But, if you would have read Samurai's comment, he was leaving it open to **any** Microsoft tech, not just SPOT.

See, you are saying that Microsoft is screwing over their MSN customers, and yes, they have (**cough** FairUse4WM **cough**). But still the question remains, Apple has thrown their users under the bus with the tech I listed, but also how apps for OS 9 no longer work on OSX, drivers for earlier versions of OSX no longer work in Leopard, and more. But when Apple does it, the Apple fanboys yell that it is good, that people should have to upgrade and not use older tech when there is something better, and so on.

I just want to know when it involves Apple tech, screwing over the customer is OK,, but when Microsoft does it, it is wrong?

You seem to be arguing that I am trying to divert focus away from Microsoft's failures. But this article is about SPOT, the tech is still going to work (incorporated into other tech). Why did Samurai try to divert focus to the MSN Music, and not focus on what the article was about? Why did you not say something about that? Could it be because you Microsoft bashers need to stick together?]]>Apr 23rd 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/whatcha gonna do?
whatcha gonna do when they come for you?]]>Apr 23rd 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/And that is why you run system backups in addition to those shadow copies.]]>Apr 24th 2008 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
I agree with a post I read...if Apple did it, it would have survived, because at least they do things with style. Plus, Mac people have no issues buying overpriced cr...gadgets.

Steve, please give SPOT some of your trendicine, please! I'll buy a Mac mini!]]>Apr 23rd 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/And that's a sad statement of affairs, considering I have bought MS hardware in past including:

Several natural keyboards, a few of their mice including a wireless one, several of the sidewinder joysticks (the first once, the forcefeedback one, the gamepad AND the force feedback wheel), several of the left hand sidewinder controllers, 2 of the voice pucks and the 900Mhz phone.

I loved that phone and they dumped its support almost as soon as they made it.

I considered the fingerprint reader, and then I realized it would need drivers and OS support, and frankly, MS just isn't trustworthy in that area as far as I am concerned.

The day the MS Natural Keyboard needs drivers is the day I buy a different keyboard. (until then, it is the only MS hardware I will continue to buy simply because they are such great keyboards)...

I wish I could get my phone working again ]]>Apr 23rd 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
(Not that I really cared; I don't like to wear watches and I figured the thing would be super lame anyway.)]]>Apr 23rd 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
R.I.P., SPOT. you will be missed~]]>Apr 23rd 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
I sniff a former conspiracy...]]>Apr 23rd 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
The service was only $60 for just about everything. It was a good deal.]]>Apr 23rd 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 23rd 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
your microsoft fanclub certificate is in the mail]]>Apr 23rd 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/
"well you know, there's this company out there called apple, and because they're not perfect, therefore all microsoft criticism == apple love. QED"


back to high school algebra witcha!]]>Apr 24th 2008 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/ I had The Timex-Pager-Data Link and it HAD everything the SPOT watches had... for free! (News feeds, Stock feeds, Weather, Sports Team calendars, had some programs for Golf players, changed time automatically in every time zone, battery life was decent (needed new batteries 3 times a year) had phone numbers and scheduled dates and (obviously) had a pager!) It was as bulky as it was awesome. So while naturally I would've gone for a SPOT watch when they came out, I didn't. Why would I? I was already getting more than SPOT would deliver. My current watch is the 2003 released USB Data Link that works with Outlook. (However, does NOT work with Vista and any later versions of Outlook) Before I had a WinMo phone, I kept my calendar/alerts/phones in my watch. SPOT would've been nice if one COULD add data to it and have it update wirelessly. But not sorry to see this one go. Even being a watch geek. ]]>Apr 24th 2008 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 24th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 25th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Cell phones tell time and have alarms and are converged devices. Why bother with another watch?]]>Apr 25th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 28th 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 25th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008/Apr 26th 2008 11:33AM