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Pebble seeks to remedy the wearable industry's original sin (www.engadget.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/pebble@lemmy.ml
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Did we ever really need a phone on our wrists?

As soon as I held the Pebble Round 2 in my hand, I suddenly realized what I’d been missing for the better part of a decade. I’ve always felt smartwatches should supplement, rather than supplant, your phone, but that’s an attitude that feels almost quaint these days.

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago

I really liked the original version of Android Wear that just used informative cards linked to supported apps on the phone. I can’t stand the new versions that are essentially a tiny phone strapped to my wrist. I am looking forward to getting the Pebble Round 2.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I want all the pebbles I can get, they are way better then anything else!!!

    I had an old pebble and loved it, till it broke.

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    [–] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Too bad the pebble leader and primary developer group are at odds with each other right now https://www.howtogeek.com/rebble-kept-old-pebble-watches-alivenow-its-work-is-being-stolen/

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 9 months ago

    That's from November, it seems like since then they have worked out some of their issues and agreed on a plan to cooperate.

    https://rebble.io/2025/11/24/rebble-in-your-own-world.html

    We have a better understanding of how Eric interacted with the App Store API, and we don’t think that he intended to “steal” from us there.

    One of the things that we’ve understood from both our blog post and Eric’s is that we have real common ground: what matters to both of us is keeping the Pebble ecosystem alive and kicking. And from the community reaction, what we hear is clear: we can only do that by working together.

    https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source

    Pebble Appstore now has a publicly available backup and supports multiple feeds, providing long term reliability through decentralization.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The situation cool down quite a bit after Pebble release 100% of their code which allows people to compile and run their own android app to talk with their pebbles. While there's still some misgivings and bad blood between rebble community and pebble at least nobody is pressing charges and throwing public accusations anymore. That's just my impression lurking in rebble discord server though.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    This is a bit misleading.

    Rebble is a group that acquired pebble IP from fitbit and later google, adding to an already big repo of apps and functionality, but more importantly making it open source.

    When core devices started working with them, they apparently withheld some of the new firmware work from rebble, which violated the terms of the agreement and the license.

    This has since been resolved.

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