and here i was — literally the same day — reading about ANT+, the protocol that lost the invisible format war to BLE, now there is them pokemans embracing BLE and making sure BLE is boosted like crazy (because pokkemen company).
I don’t know this, what’s the connection?
sums it up good enough for most people.
Think along the lines of the VHS vs Betamax plotline and that’s where I am coming from, only that there are no rabbid ANT+ fanboys.
Yeah i didn’t check that last bit, if indeed there are some fangroups (because there always are some, no matter what totem they are rooting for) don’t @ me 
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What’s the connection you’re implying between BLE and The Pokemon Company, I mean?
my dad was really obsessed with ANT+ for a few years
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???
The iPhone doesn’t support ANT+ natively so why would you use a technology that half your mainstream target audience can’t use
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what in hell
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having somehow projected a documentary (“documentary”) about a group advocating for not putting your phone by major sensitive bits (your balls. they were talking about your balls. and boobs, for the ladies.) because cancer, I foresee an uproar about an app/game/money extraction method that involves having your brain in proximity to your phone for 5-9 hours every night
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Well, we all know how wise Nintendo has been in chosing the winning carrier medium in the past (see N64 era), so i’d naturally have expected them to bank on ANT+ instead of BLE, with the latter seeming to become the default Standard around wearables atm (see Samsung dropping the ANT support from the S20 series onwards).
If they already used ANT+ for a product, that’d make it even better (balance board?), or rather a self fulfilling joke, but that’d be a big coincidence if that was the case.
In any case, as someone who keeps his phone out of the bedroom, sounds like a wonderful idea to place your phone next to your head when sleeping, i am firmly in the camp of having a retreat where you aren't susceptible to externeal stimulus, and with the phone being right next to you, kinda not on-board here. (also have never used a fitness tracker 24/7 before, so this product is a bit of a red flag for me, tbh :tarothink: )
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can’t wait to throw a pair of scissors directly into the brain of a dragon and then dump its body into a wood chipper
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maybe it’s a james bond isekai where james bond gets hit by a bus and goes to a magic fantasy world to do assassinations and sex crimes
james bond
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jams bund
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this is actually the name of a polish fruit preserves co-op
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jams in the vampire bund
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My god this writer just released a hard sci-fi tabletop setting kit consisting of two 200 page sourcebooks. two 300 page sourcebooks, and one 600 page sourcebook
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weirdly enough ant+ is very big in the smart trainer (for like zwift and its ilk) and heart rate monitoring scene
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