Five days with Pebble • Hacker News Board

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by thechut » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

bnr wrote: post #53

thechut wrote: post #38

WHERE IS THE SDK? Why will nobody answer this question? I received my Pebble 10 days ago. I was an early back of a black Pebble. So far I have really loved my Pebble, but it is begging for apps. The Pebble team said during the Kickstarter for their 2m stretch goal that they would release the SDK before the watch. Still no SDK, and not even so much as a mention since they started shipping. Obviously, as with almost al…

A very early version of the SDK is available to the 200 Hacker Special backers, who had to sign an NDA.

This supports some of the rumors I have heard but raises more questions about why the silence on it to all other backers.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by twistedpair » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

bnr wrote: post #53

thechut wrote: post #38

WHERE IS THE SDK? Why will nobody answer this question? I received my Pebble 10 days ago. I was an early back of a black Pebble. So far I have really loved my Pebble, but it is begging for apps. The Pebble team said during the Kickstarter for their 2m stretch goal that they would release the SDK before the watch. Still no SDK, and not even so much as a mention since they started shipping. Obviously, as with almost al…

A very early version of the SDK is available to the 200 Hacker Special backers, who had to sign an NDA.

All well and good, but what about when you say you'll ship the SDK? When you tell Wired and other interviews publicly that you'll have it out, and then you never say a thing. I even emailed and got a response from Eric himself saying "working on it."

The cost of clarity in communication with your user base is $0. Really. All they seem to care about it KickStarter and the whole episode reeks of amateurism which is not what you're supposed to be $10M later. Put up a post. Say what you're doing. Don't let it fester.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 8:00 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #59

ocean12 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netbooks? How'd that work out for the industry?

Rather well actually. It's funny how short some peoples memories are, but netbooks were very well received. Popular enough that Intel rushed through some low powered x86 designs for fear of ARM taking off. Popular enough that Microsoft rushed through changes to Windows XP (both in terms of software code and licensing) for fear of Linux taking off. In fact they were so successful that complaints were often made agains…

It's not short memory, Apple blogs have been waging a campaign against netbooks since their heyday, just like they wage campaigns against phones bigger than 4 inches and tablets smaller than 10", TV boxes with support for keyboards, styluses, royalty-free video codecs etc. etc. Basically if Apple isn't in the market (yet) then it needs to be torn down, otherwise Apple looks bad.