Barbecue Cowboy

More than one company has gotten to the prototype stage. Don’t remember any huge companies, but there’s video out there. You don’t realize how much the form factor sucks until it’s real.

VLC has over 6 billion downloads, obviously there are people who downloaded it multiple times, but that’s getting close to averaging one per person in existence.

6 billion download announcement (eventually leads to X/twitter): https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles/#%3A~%3Atext=VLC+media+player%2C+the+popular%2Can+AI-powered+subtitle+system.

Not directly comparable, but guesses at the number of Linux servers out there are in the 10s-100s of millions.

It’s an arguable point, but unless you get weird with what you quantify as Linux, I think VLC might honestly have more users.

I mean fuck yeah, probably. I share with my family and I had to check their email for them to prove that they received it.

You’re not alone. I’m on the list, but no domain data and I don’t have the ‘stealer log entries’ available.

Surprised that the first go to isn’t the tiny horse attached to the back of the main one or the fact that the astronaut also has no feet.

The Pebble platform doesn’t make it super easy to monetize itself beyond hardware sales. There’s no reason to make a watch like this from a business perspective. Plenty probably could, but no one with the resources to do it properly wanted to make something similar.