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Pebble Time 2 has screws (lemmy.ca)
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The two halves of a disassembled Pebble Time 2 watch
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[–] 33 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

This is sold by the same guy that created Pebble and then sold and killed it screwing the entire community, right? And it's the same guy that later sold messaging app based on breaking e2e encryption that worked for like a week before being killed by Apple? Do I remember this correctly? I think I will pass, even with screws.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Same guy. This time the whole thing is open source though, even the hardware. So that's insurance for what it's worth.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So it's best to wait for some other manufacturer to show up. If no one else is able to setup the manufacturing process it's still up to this one guy to keep making them or sell and kill it again.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It is almost always best to 'wait and see' for most things.

    But of course if everyone did that - it would never have taken off in the first place.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 11 months ago

    That's the issue. It's why I've learned that when I can afford it and I reasonably believe this firm or project should exist, and it has a decent chance not to fall flat, I end up buying in. It's literally upfront investment in the thing. I'm still salty for not backing the Ubuntu Phone back in 2012 or so. I looked at it as another phone compared to what's available on the market and how the price stacks up for the features. That's very much the wrong way to do it. A part of the value it provides is the existence of the project and the labour dedicated to it. In the case of the new Pebble, I'm backing it despite Eric, and because it's fully open source and that's something I want to exist. A fully open alternative in the sea of proprietary wearable crap.

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  • [–] 56 points 11 months ago*

    Ran out of money, went belly up, and sold the software assets to Fitbit so they could refund all the Kickstarter orders they couldn't fulfill, that guy.

    Difference is that this time he is doing the watches with a 5 man team, not a bloated 100+ employee company with investors breathing down their necks, and the software is fully open source. Even released the Pebble 2 Duo hardware designs as a reference for others wanting to make a PebbleOS watch.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Haha, you remember the past! I guess we all learned our lesson about supporting products from companies that screw us over. Cheers to avoiding the same mistake twice!

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I was a backer of the first version of the Pebble, and by the time mine came in they had released a newer, better, cheaper version which made mine feel a lot less cool. Doubt I would buy one again no matter what they did.

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