[pct-l] The Peek bites the dust

[Tortoise]

Yogi,

do what us old folks do when confounded by new fangled gadgets -- ask a 
teeny-bopper.

Tortoise

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
President John F Kennedy,  1962

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On 2012.02.03 10:00, Jackie McDonnell wrote:
> My PEEK stopped working about a month ago.  My emails to the company went
> unanswered, and their phone number just goes to a recording.  Then two days
> ago I received an email from PEEK with this statement:
>
> "We have been winding down the US service since late 2010, and at the end
> of 2011 this email address was connected to one of a few Peek devices still
> operating in the US. At the end of January, this last batch of devices was
> decommissioned."
>
> So much for my "lifetime service"!  They never sent me a heads-up warning
> email that my PEEK was about to be put to rest.
>
> Despite PEEK's crappy customer service over the last few years, it was a
> great little device.  Because they "decommissioned" my PEEK, I now am the
> proud owner of one of them-there SmartPhones.
>
> Now if I could only figure out how to make a stinking phone call on my
> "smart" phone!
>
> Yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Kim Hastings<kim at stikine.org>  wrote:
>
>> The Peek as we knew it is no more:
>> http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/02/the-peek-bites-the-dust/
>>
>> I was quite satisfied with the Peek on a two-month PCT hike in 2010. I
>> was also very happy with Pocketmail on a four-month PCT hike in 2006.
>> This summer, there will be an iPhone buried somewhere in my pack. Time
>> marches on.
>>
>> Good thing the rest of our gear doesn't become obsolete so quickly.
>> For the most part, I only replace "durable goods" when they actually
>> wear out, which I'm proud to say does happen every few years due to
>> lots and lots of use. I think the longest-lived item in my pack right
>> now is the awesome Montbell Super Stretch Down Hugger #2 sleeping bag,
>> soon to mark its 6th birthday.
>>
>> And I still love the Wilderness Press guidebooks.
>>
>> Twodog
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