So true. I remember assembling toys at 3 AM one Christmas morning. After much effort and swearing under my breath for a couple of hours, I was near the finish when two of my sleepy eyed kids came down the stairs.
Never has GET BACK TO BED! sounded worse.
That’s deep.
Can someone 'splain, or sum up, why these toys cannot be made to work without some remote connection/setup/link?
Because of it’s a kids version of an Android tablet. It needs to connect to the servers to access content.
But why would you have to? My cellphones get set up by the chicks from the Orange store, and my computers have all been “plug and play”: I could, and did, add or take off stuff, but I didn’t have to register them and download a bunch of stuff before being able to, oh, play the included games or write a document.
I have yet to own any kind of online device that needs a specific server to operate, except for individual apps. Does it work only with a proprietary site or server?
My Nexus 7 worked right out of the box, no setup required. (Though I had the option of connecting and syncing my Google account.) It also has twice the RAM, a 2.5x larger screen, a much faster quad-core processor, four times the storage space, and it only cost $50 more than the Meep’s $150. It sounds like this Meep is a very badly overpriced gimmick.
May everything you buy from this day forward come packaged in that really tough clear plastic shit that requires a hammer and a chisel to open. May you break your hammer and chisel frequently.
Without taking time to look, I’d bet the gimmick is that it can only get into a controlled, kid-safe space. Which is no doubt 75% ads and promotions for other products.
Was the thing designed by Thomas Murray, high school principal?
Huh. DIL bought the younger grandkids a pair of 7 inch Coby Android tablets for sixty bucks each, plus the twenty dollar extended warranty that gives you a new one if this kids drop theirs in the toilet and they worked right outta the box–five minutes later we hit the app store, downloaded a few stupid free kid games and now they’re happy as pigs in a blanket. You mean we could have paid twice as much to be frustrated and annoyed instead? Such a deal!
Heh, if ex-DH was a Doper, he could’ve come here, asked the smart folk, gotten the down-low on a better product, and saved some $ while he was at it.
Of course, if ex-DH was a Doper, he probably wouldn’t be ex-DH 
There’s your problem right there. I bought some years ago an Oregon Scientific atomic clock radio that included a remote sensor for temp and humidity. The display shows the time (of course) temp and humidity inside and out, barometric pressure and a rising/falling indicator, a weather predictor based on said baro readings, and the moon’s phase. The thing works fine but for one difficulty: It refuses to acknowledge that some places don’t go on or off daylight savings but stick to the same time year 'round. Not only that, when I manually correct the time to where it belongs, it insists it knows what time it “really” is and puts it back. This November it kept it up for more than a month before it would stay where I wanted it.
I haven’t seen anything else made by them, but if I do, I won’t be buying it.
Yeah, Oregon Scientific sells some crap. A friend gave me a compact digital camera from OS that ran on AAA batteries. Utterly useless, as a single use of the flash would drain fresh-charged rechargeables to the point where the camera would shut down, so that I couldn’t take pictures indoors.
Obviously you should have sprung for the portable generator accessory.
Oh holy fuck, hahaha.
Every single post is just packed with comments like that. This is getting me right into the holiday spirit, if a few days too late.
“Limited Expanded”? That’s a hoot right there. Oh, and why is that one customer sending their daughters to the toy manufacturer?
I have a weather station made by them. It has a feature which will pick up the time if I am close to Frankfurt. That is only about 10000 miles away.
As for MEEP- it sounds a horror.
Maiden fans?
