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The Pebble Has Been Brought Back (store.repebble.com)
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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

Maybe I do. But there are dozens of Chinese no-name companies who developed entire smartwatch ecosystems.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dozens? Name three, and be sure to include number of aps in each ecosystem.

    I'm sure there are dozens of Chinese smart watches, but most that I've seen are white-labels and sorely missing an ecosystem.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    To interject a bit, as both an original pebble and current re-pebble backer who also has tried most of the other watches (no-name chinese ones and samsung) The no-name ones actually aren't bad. But none of them have anywhere near the build quality - which is frankly a bit shocking. They also have nowhere near the interoperability - I can (and did) crank out faces and apps for my pebble to suit my own personal use case. That's possible with some of the big-name ones (like the Samsung), but certainly not the chinese knockoff ones.

    So for me, personally, having effectively a backup to my time steel is a good deal and I'm down for it. I'd actually prefer nothing else about it change much - aside from going to normal lugs. The weirdo ones are why I still am using the same slightly ratty band all these years later.

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