How is this going to affect the Beeper / Beepberry project? Are you involved with the hardware side of that project still?
We're bringing Pebble back
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#362Excited for this—was NOT expecting it to tell me to follow them on Twitter after signing up! That one sure hits different than the last time…
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#363I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it. However... If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host my own Pebble server if I choose. Go ahead and default to your servers and sell services and whatever, but let me host my own and switch the base URL to my own domain, preferably with open…
I second this. I'll be very hesitant to buy in if it's locked to a cloud service. And people are waking up to this, with the Bambu controversy and all. Please don't make this mistake.
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#364I have worn my Pebbles (yes, I have several) every day since I bought the first one at initial launch. Right now I have 3 Pebble Time's going (2 black, one gold). All I want is the Pebble Time 2 that they were so close to launching. It had the very few upgrades I wanted (larger screen, healty monitoring). That's ALL I need and I will be a very very happy man. I'll even buy several just to support the cause.
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#365When Pebble Watch was released, I was a 16 year-old child, and I was so fascinated by the watch, that till this day, I haven't bought any smartwatch, because deep in my mind, I knew they were nothing aganist a Pebble Watch. After I grew-up, I tried to look for any second hand pebble watch, but couldn't find any in my country. BUT I would love to get a new one now! > The new watch we’re building basically has the same…
I stopped wishing this or even asking for this. Never happens. Framework laptop did the same. And by the time they launch there are usually much better and much affordable options.
I guess the legalities and logistics against the possible sale ares just not worth it.
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#366I haven't used a Pebble, but I wanted to mention something I have seen praised a lot on HN and elsewhere. Apparently, the Bluetooth stack on a Pebble is absolutely legendary: reliable, dependable, robust, you name it. It still works reliably today seemingly thanks to their very diligent software design. I hope that element of it will continue to exist as-is on these new ones? I mention this because Bluetooth is still…
I am convinced that there must be Pebble fans on the Android team that keep a Pebble in CI and ensure it keeps working with each new release. Otherwise its continued extended working lifespan is inexplicable given the amount of churn in Android in general and the Bluetooth stack in particular.
Actually kinda to the contrary BT is extremely back-supporting. It adds/removes features so slow that it’s too boring. That’s why I left my BT expertise at the start of my career and moved to app development (it was a mistake in the hindsight but that’s another story).
Re: We're bringing Pebble back
#367When Pebble Watch was released, I was a 16 year-old child, and I was so fascinated by the watch, that till this day, I haven't bought any smartwatch, because deep in my mind, I knew they were nothing aganist a Pebble Watch. After I grew-up, I tried to look for any second hand pebble watch, but couldn't find any in my country. BUT I would love to get a new one now! > The new watch we’re building basically has the same…
I stopped wishing this or even asking for this. Never happens. Framework laptop did the same. And by the time they launch there are usually much better and much affordable options. I guess the legalities and logistics against the possible sale ares just not worth it.
yeah, it's sad though.
Re: We're bringing Pebble back
#368I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it. However... If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host my own Pebble server if I choose. Go ahead and default to your servers and sell services and whatever, but let me host my own and switch the base URL to my own domain, preferably with open…
Ooh yeah, big bonus points if it integrates easily with eg Homeassistant.
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#369"The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well "
While I don't mind the same feature set, I would sure hope you upgrade the hardware for something to last 5 years. Update the design while keeping the spirit of the original and focus on a user replaceable battery.
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#370Would it be possible to get news on bluesky in addition to X please?