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It looks like: - Chromium browsers (tested in Edge, Chrome, Brave) go to Pixel Watch, - Android devices go to Pixel Watch, - Apple devices go to Apple Watch, - Firefox brings you to Apple Watch. It might also be randomized, but that's what my tests got me, and only the Firefox one doesn't make humorous sense.
I got pixel with Firefox for Android
1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, when out at midnight beer launch, I made a custom face for the beer and won a little keychain from the brewery. My Apple watch could never.
2. Once time in 2014, I ran into some Pebble engineers at an ice cream shop in Palo Alto, they spotted my watch, they bought my scoop! Fun, weird little Silicon Valley moment.
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capitalism serves all niches , not just "most people"
That's what we are usually taught, but it doesn't actually seem to be the case. In the smartphone market in particular, as the market itself has grown, the offerings have all seemed to converge on a relatively uniform feature set. Niche phones for niche markets have slowly been weeded out. I don't understand why this is the case, but empirically it seems to be so. That's not to say that there are no weird, niche phon…
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On the iPhone I get redirected to the Apple Store page for the Apple Watch. Nice humor.
I think it's just a static redirect, it sent me to the Apple Watch page in Firefox on Linux. But I also wondered if it would shuffle between a few different brands or something (I guess not).
I'd buy a Pebble if it hit 14d+ battery life with health tracking features.
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capitalism serves all niches , not just "most people"
That's what we are usually taught, but it doesn't actually seem to be the case. In the smartphone market in particular, as the market itself has grown, the offerings have all seemed to converge on a relatively uniform feature set. Niche phones for niche markets have slowly been weeded out. I don't understand why this is the case, but empirically it seems to be so. That's not to say that there are no weird, niche phon…
It's funny with capitalism how for every purported failure there are 10 successes.
I love the animation when you click "No" on "Do you want a new Pebble?". So extra.
So if they can bring contactless payments to their new Pebble they have my attention, otherwise it's useless to me.
Watches are cool, I wish I was a watch person but I am not. Pinetime for example seemed neat. edit: there is one use case I'm considering it's for sleep tracking since my ideal life I sleep whenever and it seems my ideal operating mode is to be slightly sleep deprived (about 5 hours each night) so it knows when I fell asleep and sets a 5hr timer from there.
try getting or borrowing a cheap watch and wearing it while you sleep first. I definitely don't find it comfortable enough to bother with that feature.