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I’m hesitant with Eric as well, mostly coming out of the fact it sounds like they’re completely separate from the rebble team that kept the watches going for the past decade. But they are using the rebble discord to interact with people so maybe we’ll see.

Either way, no, the source code was only open sourced on the 27th.

Also see the actual repository.

If you have any evidence otherwise, I’d be interested as I’ve been following all of this since the original kickstarter. But I’m thinking you might be mixing what rebble is as it’s not the source code.

Either way, not sure how this will go, I’m wishful as I really don’t want to see pebble go bankrupt again.

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TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Apparently one of the people on the Rebble board is working on the project:

Some people are working on this for my new company, Core Devices, including Joshua (also one of the Rebble board members), Gerard (firmware) and crc32 (Cobble). We’ll be joined soon by Steve Penna, my OG Pebble colleague who helped build the Pebble Android app.

Heiko, the brilliant mind behind much of Pebble’s aesthetic and engineering beauty, is helping as technical advisor, along with my first colleague at Pebble, Andrew Witte and another key Pebble design leader, Mark Solomon. Others are helping via the Rebble community Discord.

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sorry, that’s me wording it badly. I know Google only open sourced it only very recently, but they did buy Fitbit “a few years ago” in 2021. I mostly just meant that Micigovsky seemingly had nothing to do with it getting open sourced. I’m sorry for the confusion, that’s on me.

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