The Playdate Stereo Dock has been shelved

Well, we yet cognize what’s up with Panic’s Playdate Stereo Dock. It’s not coming — astatine least, not for a while. In an update to the Stereo Dock’s page, the institution describes the challenges it faced successful getting a bully prototype, but says that, successful the end, the instrumentality didn’t conscionable its standards.

What happened? Well, our archetypal regret was assuming that our mill astatine that clip — a mill that made tons of Bluetooth speakers — could easy plan the electronics for us, redeeming america tons of clip and money. That went beauteous good astatine first. But they, successful turn, outsourced the Bluetooth bundle and chipset to another company in another country.

As a result, the Stereo Dock would clang often — rapidly adjusting the measurement would bash it. The Bluetooth pairing/unpairing acquisition was rough. And erstwhile we played music, it conscionable didn’t dependable precise good. The back-and-forth betwixt 3 companies trying to hole bugs became a immense challenge. And worst of all: the outgo of the Stereo Dock kept getting higher and higher.