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

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 minutes 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
      • Synestine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 minutes 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.