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!)
Pre-Order: https://store.repebble.com/
https://github.com/google/Pebble
I'd say that the archive of the Pebble watchapps and watchable before pulling the plug are fair game and should be made available to Core.
It's all available here too https://github.com/aveao/PebbleArchive
Anything modified by Rebble after that point is up to the Rebble team to decide if they're willing to share. My only wish is that these changes are publicly available for non-commercial use, otherwise it's just another walled-garden.
I dont think its up to Rebble, unless their contributions are closed source. The agreement as posted by Eric seems reasonable, and should support both the foundation and biz.
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.