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Why Pebble?

Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)
Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)
Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)
Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)
Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)

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Pebble's Founder Is Pushing the Anti-Apple Watch, and He Doesn't Need You to Care (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by tree@lemmy.ml to c/pebble@discuss.online

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49271943

Eric Migicovsky, leader of the revived Pebble, is making smartwatches for himself. You're just along for the ride.

"Apple makes it incredibly difficult for third-party devices to interact with things like iMessage or Siri or any of the built-in features on iOS," Migicovsky told Gizmodo in a freewheeling video interview. "And that sucks. That sucks for competition. That sucks for innovation. That sucks for price."

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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope it's like a gshock watch

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In what way? I don't think the Time 2 is super durable like Gshocks, seeing multiple reports of cracked screens because of the way the glass is slightly raised, causing knocks on sides of the glass where it's more likely to break.

That said, mine has been fine for the week that I've had it but I have screen protectors already ordered

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

waterproof and beefy enough to survive not being babied, I honestly haven't really looked into smart watches for a long time so they probly exist now but it was something I wanted when they where first coming out but the way they talk about the watch here is about as simple as I think I'd like, honestly just give me something unbreakable with a screen I can put an interesting readout on plus notifications, music control and maybe act as a range extender or middle hop to a bluetooth speaker if I can't have my phone near by

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the all metal casing makes the Pebble Time 2 feel pretty sturdy, and it is waterproof to 5 atm, but yeah, screen design seems to be a flaw, albeit one that people are already making simple bumper covers and such to fix.

For all those other points, yeah, Pebbles have been great for being able to actually read the screen all the time, get filtered notifications, and the buttons make music control way easier than any touch screen smart watch I've used. Pretty sure it isn't capable of being a Bluetooth range extender though.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I love my gshock! The one I have (5610) is thin, light, solar powered, adjusts to atomic time, and will go through hell and back. The new ones with MIP displays seem awesome but I can't justify it yet