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by com2kid 625 days ago
> Hell, even the Microsoft Band beat the Apple Watch to market.

We weren't making any money off of them and the 100% failure rate of Band 2 doomed the project.

Which sucked, customers loved us and we had features that still aren't matched by anything else on the market even today.

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Wow, can I just say that my family and I loved our Bands? We had issues with the plastics breaking down on the first gen (had them replaced a few times due to them becoming unwearably uncomfortable due to it within the space of a couple months), but I'll be damned if it wasn't one of my favourite gadgets of all time in terms of tasteful design and innovative ideas.

Many a familial glass of wine was raised to whoever you might have been whilst discussing how much we loved them!

I have some blog posts about the making of Band, if you want to know more about how it was developed feel free to have a read!

https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitas...