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Goodbye To the SPOT Watch

Posted by kdawson on from the hardly-knew-ye dept.

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."

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  1. Pulp Fiction by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Pulp Fiction by BenBenBen · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. Digital Watches... by GogglesPisano · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!

  3. And what exactly is a SPOT watch? by tobiasly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This post demonstrates one of the most annoying habits of Slashdot, which is its tendency to assume that everyone already knows what the hell the article is referring to in the first place. WTF is a SPOT watch? Has it been discussed on Slashdot before? Sure, it's easy to Google it but would it kill the editors to add a link to a description or a prior article?