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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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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Were? You do know they're back, right? Due to historic reasons, they are now fully open source (app, firmware included).

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Am glad they are back, crazy how one tech company managed to get watches smart, rather than making phones that fit on your wrist and act as shitty watches