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The Pebble Has Been Brought Back (store.repebble.com)
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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

And all the other watch makers I've looked at are not doing, or even considering, what Pebble did.

[–] TiggerYumYum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago

That guy is intentionally obtuse and acts in bad faith. Pebble's IP and software were sold to Fitbit. Then Google bought Fitbit. Then Google made PebbleOS open source this year. It couldn't be made until now.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

Maybe I do. But there are dozens of Chinese no-name companies who developed entire smartwatch ecosystems.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dozens? Name three, and be sure to include number of aps in each ecosystem.

I'm sure there are dozens of Chinese smart watches, but most that I've seen are white-labels and sorely missing an ecosystem.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Go to Amazon and search for smartwatch