They announced these at Ignite last year along with a swath of Copilot modules.

The goal is to provide low cost alternatives to either

1. Upgrading existing systems to win11, if the hardware supports it.

2. Offering a “low cost” alternative to an additional $30 for an extended year of win10 support.

Long term goal is to move Windows completely to a subscription model either way. Little Black Boxes are just initial way to present this as an overall savings to the Enterprise Market. And I believe it will work to some degree on the quarterly focused businesses that are already balls deep in Microsoft’s ecosystem’s. There is an unfathomable amount of win10 systems still in use across the globe and they are fast nearing EOS.

I missed out on the 1st gen pebble but had a buddy who loved his. Y’all may be talking me in to checking this new one out.

And agreed on the pine faces. I’ve been of half a mind to learn how to make them so I could have more variety.

For anyone looking for a similar device in the interim (long battery, open source) the PineTime is a great device.

Do you have F-Droid installed? Not to pull a docker, but it is opening for me on 2 separate devices.

IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox/