I don't think many customers are "upset", per se. This is a fun-to-try, completely non-essential product at this point, and hardware is hard to make, especially for a startup. Delays are forgivable. So while I'll certainly give it a shot when it finally ships, I wonder if wearing a WakeMate may just train me to keep very still towards the morning hours of my sleep?
They were willing to give a refund for the $5 down-payment, but there was still an overall bitterness. This was a wise move for wakemate, even if there is nothing wrong with providing more than what was promised/planned for an additional fee.
The customers they have now are very early adopters who will be spreading the word and writing reviews. It's essential that they do whatever they can to make positive first impressions.
I wonder if wearing a WakeMate may just train me to keep very still towards the morning hours of my sleep?
Maybe, but I assume you can just go back to sleep if you don't feel like getting up when the device thinks you should. I do this with my alarm clock; I set it for a time that would be good to be awake at, but if I'm not in the mood to be awake at that time, I just re-set it for another hour or two.
Agree. I wasn't even upset, and now I get "all future premium software features" for free. I will be downright happy to part with the remaining 90% of the purchase price.
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There's something called Smart Alarm Clock for Android (if you have a supported phone). I tried it as a way to judge if the idea had any merit, and it worked really well. Obviously it doesn't help with sleeping, just waking you up. But for the last week or so, I've woken up fresh every time, even when sleeping around 5 hours or so. Obviously, this works best if you get into a good sleep/wake cycle. There's something similar for the iPhone too, might be a good idea to do a trial run with a cheap app.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 49.8 ms ] threadThey were willing to give a refund for the $5 down-payment, but there was still an overall bitterness. This was a wise move for wakemate, even if there is nothing wrong with providing more than what was promised/planned for an additional fee.
The customers they have now are very early adopters who will be spreading the word and writing reviews. It's essential that they do whatever they can to make positive first impressions.
Maybe, but I assume you can just go back to sleep if you don't feel like getting up when the device thinks you should. I do this with my alarm clock; I set it for a time that would be good to be awake at, but if I'm not in the mood to be awake at that time, I just re-set it for another hour or two.
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I was happy till the latest update and now its unusable.
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