Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Pebble sounds cool but i really dont like square watches(except the retro casios and gshocks) and now its owned by google so thats shit as well.
Google dumped the Pebble OS code on GitHub when this whole “rePebble” thing (not Rebble) started. Now there’s a new phone app coming out soon (or out now, depending on your platform and abilities) that handles old and new Pebbles and modern phone platforms.
None of this is from Google.
I think Google just owns the software because the product page for these watches say the guy invested his own money to get these produced.
…and now its owned by google so thats shit as well.
Google acquired it back in 2021, this move to open source it is a good thing.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Pretty much the only thing Pebble that Google owns any more is the trademark itself, which is why these aren’t called Pebbles, they are Cores.
The watches have nothing to do with Google whatsoever, with the exception that Google is the who open sourced the old Pebble software so it could be used again.