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We're bringing Pebble back

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Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by erohead »

rzazueta wrote: post #341

I 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'm 100% with you! No VCs this time...no mandatory cloud subscription. But I'm not really sure that this fear is grounded - before we sold to Fitbit we 'unlocked' the Pebble mobile app so you could use it with any cloud you wanted, including self hosted. So...it already meets your definition

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by oli-g »

scottydelta wrote: post #228

This is great news. In the last few years, I have upgraded my apple watch couple of times hoping to accept even marginal improvements to battery life and hackability but every time I stop using it seeing how it's still not what I am looking for. I tried keeping my pebble alive for so long even after it's demise, I bought 2 Pebble Time when a few were still available on ebay. I remember writing my first integration fr…

> My pebble watch would call an app on my phone, in turn the app would make a request to the webserver and the webserver would then make a query to the wifi socket to toggle it

When you ask your programmer husband to turn on the light

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by wingerlang »

asdff wrote: post #382
ctkhn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta be honest I feel like Garmin is the perfect balance of pebble vs apple watch

I can't get over garmins predatory business model. The way they bin their products by activity is terrible if you have multiple hobbies. All of these devices are just a gps reciever, screen, battery, yet they sell it to you a dozen different ways for $500+ a pop usually because why unify the software and make it easy for the consumer?

> why unify the software and make it easy for the consumer

I honestly believe that selling them as separate products is easier. Both for the company who can focus in on the advertising, and for 99% of the customers who can go straight to their hobby.

That being said, it does look like the very first watch on their website is specifically in its own multi-sport category.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by jampekka »

INTPenis wrote: post #390
jampekka wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazfit watches have done this for since 2016 or so. And cheaply.

Ok maybe I should say it's not only the charge time, but also the e-ink (like?) display that captivates me. The fact that I can always look at my watch and see the time, other people can look at my watch and see the time. No flicks of the wrist required, no always on OLED display. I honestly enjoy the Fossil Hybrid more than the Pebble Time, because it has an actual watch with a screen behind the hands.

Early models had a transreflective displays, newer models sadly don't.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by ulrischa »

My Pebble was not very good. The display glitched all the time, the connector to load the watch was fidgety and the display too dark. I hope the mechanical construction will be better for the new ones

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by rurban »

Why didn't the e-paper display make it in the market? It's so much better.

I also maintain an omron device with such an e-paper display to emit error messages. It's night and day

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by blobbers »

rzazueta wrote: post #341

I 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…

When micropayments fail to annoy sufficiently, just turn them into microsubscriptions! Try 3 days for 30 cents!

-- agree with you rzazeuta!

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by XEditer »

I was a huge fan of the Pebble. Had an original Kickstarter model and a Pebble Time (well, I still do, but they need battery surgery). Loved the epaper/10-day life design so much more than the Apple Watch.

I'll be first in line for a new generation watch!

Be great if you could get @Pebble onto BlueSky, for those of us who have left Twitter/X.

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