Pine64 Announcing Pinebuds and Pinepods
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If this is not an April fool's joke why announce it on April 1?
I'm guessing that maybe the earphones and music player are real and the microwave and other weird stuff tangentially mentioned is supposed to be a joke but it's unnecessarily confusing.
> If this is not an April fool's joke why announce it on April 1?
Obvious. They didn't want to wait 3 days to announce it on Monday. Someone else could have stolen the idea by then.
But they knew it's April fools day so they said "seriously" to clarify that it's serious and not a joke. They even showed a Dev board render so it must be real. Everyone knows if there's renders there must be real products.
$199 is too steep for me though :( And delivery is exactly a year away. I don't want to wait this long!!
All other days in the year, Xiaomi (and to some lesser extent Nokia) is ahead of you in this department.
My kettle is 1.5kW. I'd be surprised if consumer kettles ran much higher than that.
EDIT: TIL about 3kW European kettles and what I'm missing out on.
Unless I'm misunderstanding it, the idea of pinebuds makes perfect sense considering some of the other devices they've created.
On the other hand, some of the language they used, such as how they mentioned browsing the apple store as R&D, makes this kinda seem like a joke.
"Oh, I almost forgot, those are the actual buds in the header picture at the top of the page, and they are already functional. The unicorn is real too. "
Want to repair just that part because it's the most unreliable and most likely to break? Well LG only sells the entire door as a replacement part and it's $200 despite the fact that the original microwave costs $400.