Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had a Pebble Time Steel and it was the best watch I’ve ever head. I want another Pebble. So does Eric. So I gave him money to make me one.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I get that. My question is why Eric (or literally anyone else) didn’t just re-make the Pebble (or similar) under a different name at any time in the last 10 years? Why did they wait for the OS to be open sourced instead of just making a new one?

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    • synestine@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

      And all the other watch makers I’ve looked at are not doing, or even considering, what Pebble did.

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      • TiggerYumYum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That guy is intentionally obtuse and acts in bad faith. Pebble’s IP and software were sold to Fitbit. Then Google bought Fitbit. Then Google made PebbleOS open source this year. It couldn’t be made until now.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

        Maybe I do. But there are dozens of Chinese no-name companies who developed entire smartwatch ecosystems.

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    • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Making a new OS isn’t easy as others have said, but it’s also helpful that Pebble OS has a bit of a following. There are still people who are very vocal about how much they love/loved their pebble watches. Making a new OS that’s inspired by PebbleOS would be met with more skepticism than just releasing a watch with an OS that people already know that they like.

      Assuming that he made no major changes to the software, pebble fans almost already know what they’ll be getting out of this product. You couldn’t say the same for a watch with a new OS.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some reasons:

      • It’s a lot of work no one wants to do given there are half-decent proprietary alternatives
      • Eric wasn’t sitting twiddling his thumbs
      • The corporate landscape wasn’t nearly as hostile to users until the last few years

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the huge thing about it? I don’t know nothing about the product and an curious as to why somebody would be that hyped about it.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It might be one of those “you had to have been there” moments. It’s 2014, Obama was reelected, Uptown Funk was on the radio (there used to be this thing called FM radio), and there you are - a happy young thing reading texts on your watch in broad daylight, right the middle of a conversation. You felt like a cucumber straight from the freezer.

      I know all that sounds slightly laughable now, but there is an undeniable yearning for that zeitgeist compared to where we ended up.

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      • VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I feel you. There was a time, some ten years ago, when computers / the web / tech in general were actually great and not those emshittyfied things we have to use now. There are too much people that are just compliant enough to use every shit that gets shoved down their throat, to the loint that it os damn hard to boycott all the shitty thing and not be effectively Amish.

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      • adavis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I never had one (but did want one, just financially couldn’t justify it at the time), but it would have a great fit for me. I just wanted a watch to tell the time, and display my phone notifications plus vibrate to alert me to them. That would have been legitimately useful for the job I was in at the time which was challenging to carry a phone (but it was nearby in my bag).

        Now, I have no use for any of that. But I am now interested in a heart rate monitor that doesn’t hoover my data to replace my old dedicated Polar heart rate monitor (which also told the time, but I only wore it exercising), so the more expensive model is tempting!

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s just a smartwatch that does some basic things right. The software is simple, it has buttons for control, it only does the very basics of smartwatching. There are no bells and whistles.

      Most of all, to me, it just feels right. It always did. Other smartwatches I’ve had were all too demanding of my attention.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair enough. I feel the compulsion myself.

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• TiggerYumYum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Really? I came across you again. Still acting in bad faith, huh? The founder Eric likes his Pebble watches, and wants to make it again. What is with you and your lack of understanding? How hard is that to believe?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay so now you’re not only acting in bad faith but following me around to harass me. You’ve been blocked. Goodbye.

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    • TiggerYumYum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I randomly came across you and saw the tag I left you. Lol

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