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Why Pebble?

Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)
Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)
Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)
Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)
Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)

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Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work (rebble.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by infinitevalence@discuss.online to c/pebble@discuss.online

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I really want Pebble back but it's not Eric's it's ours it's open source. If Eric wants to make devices that are compatible and extend the platform I'm in support. But it can't be his because he sold it 9 years ago.

I hope he can see that the best way forward is to treat the os like Linux and then build is devices to work with that OS and platform.

Update: https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward

Eric made a blog post that has some great responses but also uses some divisive language that unfortunately wont help the situation. Its clear that both sides mean well, there are just some personality conflicts that need to be sorted out because its not their platform. Its ours.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

You both just need to work together, pebble software/hardware is way too small for you both to fight over this. Seriously.

At the end of the day, I want stuff to be open source and serviceable if something ever goes belly up, including stuff like the watch battery, buttons, etc. too much smart stuff goes in the landfill imo. Let's get back to the repairable era from the 90s and before.

Valve has the right idea with their various repairable hardware products and mostly open software afaik.