Microsoft Finally Kills Off Datacasting SPOT Watches

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 20:17

Back in 2003, we were pretty hard on Microsoft for its datacasting SPOT watches.

There were so many reasons for such a thing to fail.

Just as mobile phones with data access were becoming fancier, more affordable and more ubiquitous, Microsoft was trying to convince people to buy expensive, bulky watches that required you to pay money to access tiny bits of data that you could easily get for free elsewhere.

To be honest, after the watches launched...

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