> surprisingly cheap,
What would you consider surprisingly cheap?
Their last product announcement was the BUSY bar, a desktop timer with a display to show that you're busy. Pre-orders launched at $250 but they dropped the price to $219. Has not shipped yet: https://busy.app/
The Flipper One specs are significantly more expensive to manufacture than the Flipper Zero or Busy Bar. I don't think this will be a surprisingly cheap product.
I do think it's cool that they're building the product they want to build and letting cost be a secondary factor.
Wow this crazy -- "Built-in Pomodoro timer" means they are literally replacing a $5 plastic tomato-shaped mechanical timing device with something that costs $220 and features WiFi and app integration. What could be more antithetical to the original pomodoro ethos, I don't know. It's like an episode of Silicon Valley.
If that's crazy to you, let me introduce you to Juicero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero
Am so "teh old", that honestly - I can't say whether or not that product was worse than the "CueCat":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
(Naw - the CueCat was better, at least it was a generic barcode scanner)
I love that Belo was so involved in this epic failure. They are one of those large media companies I love to hate on. It probably helps to be a Dallas native to have that sentiment though
Can you name the pomodoro timer that support Matter?
That's a pretty crazy price for a pomodoro with a screen, lmao.