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by Dylan16807 4740 days ago
That's not an excuse. If you're selling thousands of units you need to do test shipments and figure out how long things actually take. And they already delayed retail a month at the last minute, that should be enough time to get shipping worked out.
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potatolicious 4740 days ago
Indeed. Pebble did test shipments beforehand and AFAIK the fulfillment process has been relatively smooth (the manufacturing process less so).
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malkia 4740 days ago
what would be an excuse then?
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Dylan16807 4740 days ago
It's really hard for me to think of a valid excuse for shipments to be significantly delayed for something that was ordered a year in advance. I can think of many valid reasons for production delays; production is hard and unpredictable. Shipping not so much. Maybe a natural disaster.
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moron4hire 4740 days ago
It was funded a year in advance. "Ordered" a year in advance makes it sound like they had the thing ready and complete and have just been sitting on their asses instead of getting the things built. This was early access--in some cases customized--hardware.

I got mine, I'm not too happy with it, but it was $100. Maybe 6 months from now I can crack it open and fix the major problems with it. But I helped get a company started that is doing something unique. That was worth the $100 alone.

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Dylan16807 4740 days ago
When it comes to shipping delays, and only shipping delays, it does not matter in the slightest when the product was made. What matters is figuring out how to get devices shipped efficiently and legally. Which they utterly failed to do.

And I wish you would have helped a competent android game device company instead of Ouya, but what's done is done.

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moron4hire 4740 days ago
Who would that be? I'm actually not seeing much difference between Ouya and basically every other company in the world right now. Their customer support sucks? Yeah, so does the majority of companies from people posting on these boards.
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Dylan16807 4739 days ago
Sorry, it would take me far too long to go into the ways Ouya has barely managed to deliver a half-functional product. But as an example, as far as I know gamestick has done a better job and been far more honest about it.
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