So much drama in the PEB...
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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I'll just quietly enjoy my steel until it finally dies (almost to the decade mark).
Informative. I did find it strange that Rebble feels they own the app catalogue.
You should probably get more news on this. Eric Migikowsky is being a dick at the moment.
- He sold pebble to Google and they fucked us all over.
- Rebble was created by the community, gathering whatever they could from the project. Some pieces (like firmware) stayed in the Google vaults until last year.
- Eric comes in saying "we making a new pebble, we gonna X, we gonna Y. We gonna work with rebble!"
- he and core then simply demand unfettered access to ALL the rebble data, upstream only once and refuse to play ball with them any longer.
Rebble didn't inherit any app catalog, it was cobbled together by the pebble community after the Google rug pull.
Edit: pebble to Fitbit, Fitbit shut down pebble store, Google bought Fitbit, Google kills Fitbit. Just to clarify the above.
I understand all of that. I just don't think that the Rebble community having scraped the apps from the Pebble Store gives them the rights to refuse others from scraping it from them.
Sure it does. I can have T's & C' for my own services and so can they. They are not legally obliged to let him scrape them. Then they'd need to pay for the load. Makes no sense.
Yes, it does. They didn't just scrape them and re-post them, they were converted for use with the rebble app (removing signing in requirements, etc) and they offer them under a more permissive license than they were before under fitbit (who closed off and killed large swaths of the pebble store before they turned it off, BTW).
The point is that core is now trying to take that IP without respecting rebble's licensing terms.