If there are any devices in the future I would like a surface competitor. Not surface laptop. Just a tablet thingy.
We're bringing Pebble back
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#122I'm curious why they stopped in the first place. It seemed fantastic when it was out, and everyone loved them. Apple and Android watches are battery hungry and over-fluffed with features I don't want or need. I'd like to think that this time, it won't go away again?
A parts manufacturer went bust at exactly the wrong time IIRC.
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#123The Apple Watch is just okay but sells like 25x per year Pebble's entire lifetime sales. I guess people love their Pebbles but this seems like a lot of effort for something most people probably don't want.
capitalism serves all niches , not just "most people"
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#124Cool. I wrote a few watch faces for this back in the day. One of them - ruler watch face was moderately popular.
Not sure what it is about the subsequent breed of smart watches (android, apple etc), but none of them seemed to scratch quite the same itch.
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#125I still have my Pebble Time Round in a drawer somewhere. I've long since switched to an Apple Watch but despite all the extra features I still consider it to be an inferior complete product to the Time Round. I really hope this works out.
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#126I can't wait, I never got a Pebble but it was the most interesting smart watch style to me.
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#127Oh man. I own an Apple Watch, but I made it a point years ago to buy an OG Pebble off eBay to be my first smartwatch, and the sheer elegance of the UX is still something I pine for. I very dearly miss the daily timeline, which was sheer UX brilliance.
Only niggle: Portugal isn't on the list, but yeah, right... Other it is.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I would have loved the e-ink concept continuously iterated. I'm probably gonna sound like a broken record in this thread but the Pebble never used e-ink, it used a MIP LCD, and MIP never went away. Lots of sports watches use the exact same display technology from the exact same supplier (Sharp) to this day.
"MIP" ? I thought it was called transflective : for transmittive + reflective ?
https://www.sharpsde.com/technologies-for/memory-in-pixels/m...
MIP refers to the displays ability to retain the last frame indefinitely, unlike typical LCDs which need an external controller to refresh them constantly, even if every frame is identical to the last one.
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#129Excited (cautiously) about this. Loved my Pebble Time and was gutted when 1) Pebble bit the dust, and 2) my Pebble vanished down that black hole things like small devices and the other sock invariably go down. If this happens, I hope they can keep the revived Pebbles just smart enough and rebuild the app ecosystem. Best of luck, folks. I'm cheering you on from the sidelines!
Also cautious. Extremely cautions.
I got rug pulled by "the pebble team" the first time, leaving me with 3 watches they effectively bricked.. Not gonna sign up for that again.
(I got a refund on my last Pebble order. When the money showed up I drunk-ebayed a 2nd hand ~40 year old mechanical watch. I now have about 20 wind up or mechanical auto winding watches. I do have a few chinese ~$40 "smart watches" that do an OK job of notifications on my wrist, and a somewhat questionable job of heartrate and blood pressure monitoring, and one that produces totally random numbers for blood glucose reading whether it's on my wrist or not. I almost never wear any of those. I've got a Watchy kit, and open source epaper ESP32 watch, but I've had it maybe a year and haven't found the enthusiasm to assemble it.)
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#130I loved my Pebble al the way up to when the first Apple Watch came out. Yes, the battery life is nowhere near as good but the integration into the OS was way better and they have steadily added health features that I appreciate (fall detection, afib, etc). Maybe the Pebble could match some/all of that but I have my doubts. It was a great little device but longer battery life is just not that compelling to me. I mean…
Apple watch feels soulless and corporate, the app (and feature) selection is still practically abysmal compared to what Pebble had to offer. The walls Apple has built have not helped at all. I haven't even found an actually fun small game to play on the loo on it. It's sad.