We're bringing Pebble back!
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Which business model are they going for - screwing over their former employees? Or selling access to something that doesn't belong to them? Or are they going to try to combine them both this time?
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I'm just very unoptimistic that this won't come back as corporate garbage and not remotely resembling what it once was.
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Interesting to see if it will be better than Bangle JS 2, the spiritual successor to Pebble. That's the one I've been using a few years and I still like it a lot.
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The former pebble employees at Google worked hard to get the OS open source, so I think it's fair to assume they were hoping for this outcome. And the repebble team (who are the ones"bringing it back") have been working on providing support and keeping the original pebble watches going for years now.
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The people doing the revival have been working to keep the original pebbles working for years now. I think they're really passionate about the watch, and that gives me hope for the revival.
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The best part is you can make your own!
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It sounds like "the people" is just Migi, unless I'm misunderstanding. The guy who EEE'd Beeper.
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With what? I don't own a watch factory.
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How did Migi embrace, extend, and extinguish Beeper‽
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Everything is closed source now.
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we've got pineWatch so why not pebble? PineWatch is OK but it's.not pebble. It was an amazing low tech that was actually extremely useful
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Saw dansup's Mastodon post about rebble.io, they were already a thing. Now the software has been open sourced is everyone trying to jump in?
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Where did you read that? The github pages are all still open and receiving updates, you can still self-host the bridges and its under the apache-2.0 license, just like it's always been.
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The beeper apps were never open source to begin with, but all the bridges are and will continue being.
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I'm not in to smart watches, but I'm happy this is happening. A couple of friends really liked the pebble and were sad to see it go.
If you click "no" on the website it takes you to the Google pixel watch site. My goodness that thing is ugly.
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I didn't read anything I looked it up. The app and the new "Beeper cloud" server are both closed source.
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The beeper apps were never open source to begin with
Incorrect. They were open source right up until they moved over to the new Beeper app.
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I've been with them since the first alphas, and no, the mobile and desktop apps, and the server implementation were never open source, only the mautrix and beeper bridges. Nothing has changed with the new apps, and the local bridges (that run in your phone with the app) will also be open sourced on release.
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Definitely interested in trying this. I've got an Android smart watch and I'm really disappointed in the lack of customisation and integration with stuff.
