Kickstarter - really real project ???

[ebastler]

It's pretty much an iWatch but thinner and more watch-like. And it adds a regular watch function as well. And it costs wat a much lower end smartwatch would cost.

So, either the thousands of engineers working at Apple, Fitbit, Samsung, Withings,... are all idiots, or...

... or the business guys working at Apple are rather greedy. 

MyKronoz have smartwatches already on the market. These use either mechanical hands or a touch screen, but are offered below the targe price for the new model. E.g. this one here: https://www.mykronoz.com/de/de/collections/zeroundpremium-leather.html. As mentioned by others above, this Kickstarter campaign is not a project by a couple of fresh-out-of-school kids, but a marketing play by an existing company.

I would tend to trust them -- except maybe on battery life, which may turn out to be a tad optimistic. But I would not complain about 2 days and 20 days in screen mode and mechanical-hands-only mode, respectively...

[Ice-Tea]

It's pretty much an iWatch but thinner and more watch-like. And it adds a regular watch function as well. And it costs wat a much lower end smartwatch would cost.

So, either the thousands of engineers working at Apple, Fitbit, Samsung, Withings,... are all idiots, or...

... or the business guys working at Apple are rather greedy. 

MyKronoz have smartwatches already on the market. These use either mechanical hands or a touch screen, but are offered below the targe price for the new model. E.g. this one here: https://www.mykronoz.com/de/de/collections/zeroundpremium-leather.html. As mentioned by others above, this Kickstarter campaign is not a project by a couple of fresh-out-of-school kids, but a marketing play by an existing company.

I would tend to trust them -- except maybe on battery life, which may turn out to be a tad optimistic. But I would not complain about 2 days and 20 days in screen mode and mechanical-hands-only mode, respectively...

I have no problems admitting Apple products are overpriced, but to me they do represent a technical benchmark: there's no reason to assume others can put together a product that is more than marginally better. So either they are misrepresenting, per example, the dimensions and/or looks or they we are in for a post in a year or two that starts with 'despite our best efforts, yadayadayada...'

[Kilrah]

Apple products are somewhat of a technical and design benchmark yes - but that's the whole point. You can do perfectly good things for 1/5 of the price it takes to be the "benchmark", the reason Apple stuff is expensive is precisely because they want to be taken as the benchmark, and as such that commands a premium pricing and premium materials/features of which the actual relevance may be small.

The watch market is the prine example of a field where anything goes for pricing, and completely unrelated to capabilities. Just see the orignal "Edition" Apple watch - exact same one as the normal $350 one, but sold for $12k. The actual extra material costs are probably $1k, the rest is marketing fluff.

[rollatorwieltje]

 * kicks topic from the grave *

Looks like they actually delivered something. Unfortunately it does look like they rushed it, both on software and hardware level. Also they seem very unresponsive to backers. Too bad, I think the concept is quite neat.