Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch

CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And why are both watches a “2” variant?

  Because this is the next generation of the original Pebble watches.

  Core 2 Duo
  I’ll actually be surprised if this makes it to launch without Intel perhaps making a few legal calls and prompting a device name change.

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  • rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The most recent Intel Core 2 Duo was discontinued in 2008. I doubt Intel would be able to convince anyone that this is a competing product or would cause any customer confusion. No one is going to be looking for a low end processor from over a decade ago and accidentally buy a watch.

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The point is not that it is being used, the point is that corporations must protect their trademarks or else they may lose the exclusive rights to them. Intel also still uses the “Core” branding on their modern CPU’s so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to try and continue legally protecting “Core 2 Duo” under the guise of retaining the “Core” part of their trademarks.

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      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They do need to protect their branding, but only if it’s likely to be viewed as “similar”. there’s no reasonable risk of people thinking that a watch and an old processor are the same.
        There’s a lot of products with similar names that haven’t had issues.

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Corporations are extremely protective about their branding, even if it’s for discontinued products. If this product gets any negative press, it can still affect their branding if people associate it with Intel.

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  • SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t this be the fourth generation? Pebble Time was the second generation and Pebble 2 was the third generation.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  when that’s the name of an Intel processor?

  It’s totally a reference to that, it has to pretty much… Why? Idk, nostalgia?

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The two colours of the first Intel MacBook by Apple, which had Core 2 Duo processors…

    Quite an hommage indeed

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• ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was my first thought as well. “Intel gonna sue somebody.”

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• _____@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Core 2 Duo is also a terrible name from Intel in the first place. I did place my repebble order, hopefully it will serve me well.

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