https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

" No one makes a smartwatch with the core set of features I want:

Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)

Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)

Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features I use regularly (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)

Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)

Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)"

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Pebble is awesome but fell into a VC trap when every VC was super bullish hardware and forced everyone to hyper growth which doesn’t really work that well for hardware build-sell cycles.

I’ve worked with Rebble and it’s quite good!  They made some great choices.  Looking forward to seeing it revived.