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Fossil is quitting smartwatches (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Good. They fucking sucked, and they never supported them.

We bought 2 of their watches, brand new. The gen 4 literally had like 6 months of life in it before they stopped supporting it, and apps stopped working on it.

It had abysmal battery life and performance, basically unusable.

We also had the Sport. The front fell off. Which is not very typical, I'd like to make that point. The screen kinda opened up, flopped over and ripped itself off when going to bed. We got a replacement, horrible customer service, we had to hunt down a store that had the watch in stock, and then argue with them to make them understand that we're here for a warranty replacement, and they didn't know what to do.

That watch then proceeded to live for 3 months before they suddenly cut support and new apps stopped running on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had one that also had some sort of charging reliability issue, and I decided to return, so I agree it isn't a huge loss. Still, a lack of competition is usually bad in terms of prices for the rest of us. And WearOS getting even smaller means even narrower dev community. Easier to fully wall off the garden and close the OS when there are fewer and fewer people in it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the famous charging ring getting unglued issue.

I think they picked subpar glue for the whole unit tbh.