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The Pixel Watch 2 convinced me never to buy a first-gen product - Android Central (www.androidcentral.com)
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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If we're being honest, the entire smartwatch market is complete garbage. Handhelds have at least been successfully around for a while. Valve just managed to get a good PC competitor running, which arguably probably also helped the more unknown ones.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

It was right place, right time, lightning in a bottle kind of thing.

Over time Valve built the tools to make the Deck as good as it is, but it took years of background development on things you wouldn't think about. Stuff like having experimented with SteamOS on Steam Boxes prior to using it for the deck. Having built the Steam controller as an acceptable interface. The only thing they didn't have prior experience with was the AMD APU structure, but ultimately because of the open source nature of the drivers, they were able to get into it very quickly.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

The apple one being able to make a call independent of the phone is useful. Its essentially a very small and limited smartphone.