I'll buy an Apple Watch, but I'd pay through the nose for an Apple Watch with four buttons. Steve Jobs obsession that the mouse should have only one button was probably right for the computer, but the input device had over 80 buttons minimum. (Keyboard) Clearly whoever makes the call about Apple Watch buttons doesn't swim, sprint or cycle. All the marketing about "sports" is to make you feel sporty not because it's a…
> Steve Jobs obsession that the mouse should have only one button was probably right for the computer LOL. Mine has 12, of which I regularly use 10.
What do you have? (Crossing my fingers you don't say Razor)
As a big Pebble fan, I was really sad to see the company go without any similar alternatives in the market (at the time). My watches ended up having various hardware issues over the years, so I switched to something else. The efforts Rebble has put in to keep these devices alive is amazing. If they grow bigger, I'd love to see them do hardware. In the meantime, I'm wearing a Withings ScanWatch [0]. Not as extendable…
Are there any comparable alternatives to Pebble even now? I’ve yet to see one, but I haven’t followed the market very closely since I stopped using one.
I had a pebble, now I have a Garmin Forerunner.
These are marketed as fitness devices first, which they are, but the smart watch features are comparable to the Pebbles. The lack of a touchscreen, the long battery life, and the epaper-like display are all there.
I'll buy an Apple Watch, but I'd pay through the nose for an Apple Watch with four buttons. Steve Jobs obsession that the mouse should have only one button was probably right for the computer, but the input device had over 80 buttons minimum. (Keyboard) Clearly whoever makes the call about Apple Watch buttons doesn't swim, sprint or cycle. All the marketing about "sports" is to make you feel sporty not because it's a…
You'll be excited to hear that for $800 you can now get an Apple watch with one more button to assign to a sports thing!
Folks ITT will talk about watches that are similar in hardware, but what was magic about Pebble was the software and ecosystem. The OS was just a delight to use, fast, wonderfully animated, and let you sideload whatever you want. I've tried a couple of Garmin watches (Vivoactive 3 and Forerunner 55) and the Amazfit Bip, and this is where they all fall completely flat. The UX is just horrible by comparison. It's like…
Pebble's software was second to none. They built an entire operating system and app store, to run on microcontrollers! Multiple orders of magnitude less RAM and power consumption than Android or Apple watches, but the user experience was excellent and the app store had tons of stuff in it. I once interviewed a candidate who came from Pebble. He had the most impressive interview performance of any candidate I've ever…
> I once interviewed a candidate who came from Pebble. He had the most impressive interview performance of any candidate I've ever interviewed.
Pebble's software was second to none. They built an entire operating system and app store, to run on microcontrollers! Multiple orders of magnitude less RAM and power consumption than Android or Apple watches, but the user experience was excellent and the app store had tons of stuff in it. I once interviewed a candidate who came from Pebble. He had the most impressive interview performance of any candidate I've ever…
> I once interviewed a candidate who came from Pebble. He had the most impressive interview performance of any candidate I've ever interviewed. Can you tell more about this?
Not much to tell. He solved my interview problems super quickly and then we had a chat about his experience which impressed me a lot. This was many years ago (as Pebble was dying) so I don't remember the details of the conversation. He didn't accept our offer, for visa related reasons if I recall correctly, so unfortunately I didn't get to work with him. Obviously the variance on interview performance is high, and my typical interview questions are not super hard or anything, so it doesn't necessarily mean that much. But I'm confident that he was a very good engineer that I would have liked to work with.
I loved my 80Gb classic iPod. When its hard drive finally died I couldn't bring myself to dispose of it.
You can definitely replace the hard drive with parts online!
The SSD adapter and drive are available but I can't get hold of the iPod back. The instructions I saw say that the edges of the case get damaged ... and I'm clumsy.
> I can't believe that my iphone doesn't have a built-in setting to cap charging at 80% They have a "smart charging" setting which is poorly defined. It says it limits charging to 80% sometimes using AI. I think the idea is it charges to 100% overnight, and 80% the rest of the time. But i agree, it would be nice if it had a selector switch. Some laptops have a "aim for 60%, 80% or 100% battery charge" option.
The AI tries to predict when you’re going to be leaving it on the charger for a while (like going to bed), and limits the charging to 80% until it predicts you’ll likely need it, then charges it the rest of the way. They do the same thing for Macs, but it’s way, way too conservative IMO. My M1 MBP sits on my desk on a dock with a charger pretty much all week, and it eventually figures out that it should just keep it…
Thank you.
I too agree that I would prefer to have a manual/scheduled charge setting system.
How or what do you integrate with google maps? I only see notifications and it stops after a while.
I bought (ages ago) the _Nav Me_ companion app. It parses Google Maps notifications and shows you directions on the watch. Also vibrates and turns the light on for every step.
Pebble user here as well! I moved from PTS to PTR (fall on the ground - dead) now back to PTR and it is amazing: long battery life, the apps on it are great. I use: Rain, Checklist, timer, LMS controller and alarm and torch. You?
- MultiTimer - for short naps, setting alarms when cooking, etc - Authenticator - TOTP authorization tokens - Skunk - barcodes - Time Tracker - I work remotely as a contractor - Pebble Controler - a remote control for my laptop I also use a lot the standard apps on the Pebble: - alarm, to wake me up by vibration, without waking up my wife - canned messages - to answer phone calls when driving - notifications, notific…
Thanks. Need to look into skunk and pebble controller.
Yeah the multitimer is nice - it’s a watch after all.
I got a Versa 3 after my Galaxy Active stopped working, after my Bip broke, and after my Pebble screen went bad. I've enjoyed it, although I am really missing the ability to write my own apps. Everything else is great. I understand that the Versa 4 is generally worse than the 3. Insane, why would you remove music controls?
You can absolutely write your own apps for the Versa 3.
Strange, when I looked before I didn't really see anything but I could be getting mixed up with the Bip. Well I'm going to be all over that this weekend!