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  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    I had a Pebble Time Steel and it was the best watch I’ve ever head. I want another Pebble. So does Eric. So I gave him money to make me one.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      13·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, I get that. My question is why Eric (or literally anyone else) didn’t just re-make the Pebble (or similar) under a different name at any time in the last 10 years? Why did they wait for the OS to be open sourced instead of just making a new one?

      • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Making a new OS isn’t easy as others have said, but it’s also helpful that Pebble OS has a bit of a following. There are still people who are very vocal about how much they love/loved their pebble watches. Making a new OS that’s inspired by PebbleOS would be met with more skepticism than just releasing a watch with an OS that people already know that they like.

        Assuming that he made no major changes to the software, pebble fans almost already know what they’ll be getting out of this product. You couldn’t say the same for a watch with a new OS.

      • Synestine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

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

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          12·
          1 hour ago

          Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

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

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Some reasons:

        • It’s a lot of work no one wants to do given there are half-decent proprietary alternatives
        • Eric wasn’t sitting twiddling his thumbs
        • The corporate landscape wasn’t nearly as hostile to users until the last few years