“We make new pebble watches,” writes the original Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky on the launch page “Repebble”.
Eight years after Pebble's time when an Upstart watchmaker came to an end, Migicovsky says that he is working with a small team on “A Pebble-like smartwatch that runs open source Pebbleos.” There should be a number of new functions, but new watches would “remain faithful to the core coupling vision.” With sufficient registrations, the site claims, that watch is being built.
Pebble, launched in 2012, was one of the first smartwatches from the smartphone era, which sold 2 million models and served as an early success story for hardware crowdfunding. After the relatively inexperienced hardware company came across the financing of gaps and fierce competition from the Apple Watch, Pebble stopped making his own watches after a single-IP sale to Fitbit in 2016. Google took over Fitbit in 2021 and also a number of original pebbles won, anyone who helped launch the Rebble project replacement web services for the watch and kept the watch working on the latest Android telephones.
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