- I like it for what it is, a well-built smartwatch with with a SDK, internet connection, and decent battery you can hack on over the weekend. It isn't going to replace your Apple Watch, but it is significantly more refined than some other offerings such as the PineTime, Bangle.js, etc.
(Nothing against those projects, I enjoyed them for what they were as well.)
- Got my duo a few weeks ago and my battery lasted about 3 weeks before needing a recharge. It does everything I need. Great little smartwatch
- Pebble was exactly what I wanted 10 years ago and exactly what I don't want now. I'm very happy to miss notifications when my phone is in my pocket or bag and I don't care about fitness metrics anymore. However I'd love to leave my phone at home while still being reachable...
by ndesaulniers
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- Their libc is kind of a mess of various sources. I wonder what's going on there?
https://github.com/coredevices/PebbleOS/tree/main/src/libc
by NewUser76312
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- I loved Pebble back in the day, and Eric is a great guy and friend to entrepreneurs trying to build cool things.
I do wonder how a modern revival of Pebble will compete from a product perspective within the current landscape. Obviously there's the high-end Apple Watches, but there's also incredibly cheap and long battery life products from China that you can see on Aliexpress and similar. Fitness tracking is another related niche that seems oversaturated, unless you do something really unique in biometrics sensing.
So it seems like a hard market to get back into, curious where they take things.
by iopjgalejandro
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- thank you for this incredibly transparent and honest post.
The section on "Setting Expectations" (5 employees vs 180) is the most valuable insight. As an indie developer myself, I'm deeply curious: how does this new "sustainable" mindset (vs. the old VC-funded model) change your prioritization for the software roadmap?
Does it mean focusing 100% on the core functions and being more ruthless about saying 'no' to feature creep, which is something that plagues so many other wearable companies?
Rooting for you all.
by liampulles
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- Looking forward to getting my Pebble Time 2. Its been fun to play around building a watchface in the mean time:
https://developer.rebble.io/tutorials/watchface-tutorial/par...
by synergy20
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- I will buy it if it supports esim so I can be reachable by phone and sms all the time, which means some cell phone operator needs to buy in first.
- Does anyone know whether more than one device can connect to a Pebble watch at the same time? I'm thinking using it with your phone but also sending notifications from your laptop.
by diego_moita
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- For me, the best that Pebble has to offer is: "it is your machine, you can do whatever you want with it".
Apple severely restricts what you can install in the hardware you buy from them. Google will soon restrict the installation of Android apps not signed by Google. Microsoft restricts you to use your computer without a Microsoft account. John Deere restricts you from fixing your machines with parts sold by others. Espresso machine manufacturers restrict the capsules you can use in their machines. AWS makes everything incompatible and hard to migrate to other cloud providers.
They all follow the IBM business model: you buy IBM and end up fenced in blue in a walled garden that you can't escape.
I don't want that. I don't want to buy machines that come with a leach.
by desireco42
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- Yeah, I got burned once, I don't want to be burned again. You will sell out at first opportune moment. Which is why I am passing on this.
(I don't blame you for that, just don't want to be part of it)
BTW, Amazfit, rules.
- Or "Milking content out of the old dry Pebble well"
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