"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
09/13/2018 at 10:52 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
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A little company named Livermorium was trying to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! attachment for the Moto Z line of phones. But, now they’ve !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Darn. But fear not, physical keyboard lovers! Livermorium is now supposedly shifting gears to making a whole phone with a keyboard.
Here’s why the keyboard Moto Mod isn’t happening, as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :
There was no commercial interest from official retailers. Moto Z smartphones have a low market share in most places, hence, it would be difficult to find third-party retailers to sell the mod as an accessory.
The company did not receive any funding apart from Indiegogo, which left them little money after product development, molding, and sampling.
The company can only afford to produce 3,000 units. This poses a problem when needing to order components. For example, the distributor of an uncommon component required them to order a minimum of 14,000 pieces from the factory because the part wasn’t in stock.
The Keyboard Mod used lots of unique components that couldn’t be substituted. The lead time on sourcing some of these parts was months. The battery controller they used last year was discontinued, and the newer controller requires a change on the PCB which already started production.
There’s a high cost of assembly and quality assurance per device.
Changing the layout would require approval from Motorola.
They were still working on solving the thickness and weight issues with the product.
Livermorium is instead pivoting to making a whole phone, which they’ve codenamed the Q-Device. They claim on their Indiegogo page that it’ll be way better than a Moto Z with the keyboard mod would ever have been. Because I’m sure trading in all those challenges they had in making a Moto Mod for putting a whole phone together from scratch with funding from Indiegogo will produce a much better result.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Textured Soy Protein
09/13/2018 at 11:10 |
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so we have a tiny keyboard thats phone sized at work...its stupid. it works as advertised but its too small, its an exercise in frustration. (bought for a phone based telepromp ter that was also a stupid idea)
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Textured Soy Protein
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2018 at 11:14 |
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I got one of these several years ago when I used to plug my laptop in to my tv to watch stuff on a somewhat regular basis:
Typing on it was not fun but could be used in a pinch.
But thanks to my Roku and Chromecast, I rarely if ever plug my laptop in to my tv anymore, even though I do still have an extra HDMI cable plugged in to an input on my stereo receiver and stashed behind the tv stand.
Now that I think about it, probably the last time I used it was last Christmas when my wife asked me to help her put together a photo slideshow to play at her mom’s house on Christmas, and I plugged my laptop in to the tv there.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Textured Soy Protein
09/13/2018 at 11:19 |
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I still have this really cool folding keyboard for my ancient sony PDA. it was the best. It was my school computer way back before the room with lit up with tiny apples.
THAT was a good design.
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> Textured Soy Protein
09/13/2018 at 11:25 |
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I already did some stuff to my Priv to keep it running (added memory, replaced battery) , the TCL KEY devices don’t seem like worthwhile replacements.
Wasn’t overly interested with this since it was landscape, not portrait. Landscape is good for “laptop-esque” usage like remote desktop or terminal shells, not so much for messaging.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2018 at 11:42 |
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Ash78, voting early and often
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2018 at 11:45 |
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Back in my day (late 90s, early 2000s)
, if a student brought a laptop into a lecture, they would be shut down ASAP, often in front of 200 people. Almost everyone had laptops or desktops at home, but electronics in class — when you were supposed to be eye-up and engaged with the professor — was usually verboten. Evol
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/13/2018 at 11:46 |
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yup. I was certainly an outlier with my keyboard, but the device itself was so small it wasn’t noticeable . plus it could simultaneously record audio. so I recorded the lectures and took notes at the same time.
MarquetteLa
> Textured Soy Protein
09/13/2018 at 13:05 |
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Sad times, I was pretty interested in this.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2018 at 14:49 |
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Now professors are like “just get the recording and notes from my website”
And nobody goes to class.
Normally I wouldn’t care, but I think that short-circuits the part of your brain that has to actually learn directly
from other human beings. Crucial in the workforce, no matter what field you’re in.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/13/2018 at 14:52 |
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well its certainly shown to increase memory retention to take your own notes. I don’t think its hard to draw that conclusion.