Goodbye To the SPOT Watch

Starturtle sends along an Engadget article on the demise of the Microsoft SPOT Watch. We've discussed related devices a few times in the past; here's a picture of one. "After a long, painful, nearly anonymous ride on the wrists of a select few uber-geeks, Microsoft's finally throwing in the towel on one of its longstanding pet projects: the SPOT watch. The writing's been on the wall for some time; the applications and content available to the watches haven't been updated in ages, and indeed, the entire line of Abacus Smart Watch 2006 models — the only type being recently offered — has been discontinued and out of stock for a few months. For what it's worth, MSN Direct's program manager is quick to note that the underlying technology most certainly isn't going away."

Comments

Pulp Fiction

[Ilan Volow]

If they had billed it as "a watch so awesome you'll want to hide it up your ass for your descendants" they might have gotten better sales.

Re:Pulp Fiction

[BenBenBen]

I think you've tapped into an under-used metric for reviews - would certainly put the iPod Shuffle ahead of the Zune, at any rate.

Good for Microsoft

[Rik Sweeney]

They must have found a really good exfoliant or concealer.

Digital Watches...

[GogglesPisano]

Douglas Adams said it best:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

I'll stick with my analog watch, thanks.
 
...and get those kids off my lawn!

Internet Ring

[lobiusmoop]

How tiny is that screen? I think it is tending towards the infamous Dilbert 'Internet Ring' - an ultra-portable PDA that would let you surf the internet - one character at a time.

What The Hell?

[His Shadow]

Someone was still making those? That's like finding out that Microsoft Bob was still on store shelves. Or the same way I felt when I found out that Palm had stores.

Re:It was a dumb concept

[calebt3]

People are using other devices for time. I use a watch. And because of that, I am the "other device" people refer to.

Re:It was a dumb concept

[MikTheUser]

iWatch Apple would probably decide that didn't sound cool enough. I think they would go with iTime. iAgree

Re:It was a dumb concept

[FrozenFOXX]

I'd still have to call it the iProduct.