I miss my Pebble. It did what was needed, no bells or whistles. Extremely long battery life. It just worked.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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As a long time pebbler, I've found a new home with Garmin. I have the instinct and it functions a lot like the pebble used to. A little pricey, but when I'm getting a month of battery life, I'm fine with it
Best smartwatch ever 🥰
Stupid Fitbit buying them out and killing the competition. Yay consumers getting the best deal!
Fitbit didn't kill Pebble, Pebble filed for Insolvency. Fitbit bought the IP and hired some of the employees. Fitbit refunded Kickstarter contributors, kept the official servers up for more than a year, and, by all accounts, worked with rebble to make it possible for them to take over the ecosystem. None of that would have happened without Fitbit.
I'm bitter about how things ended too, and I was wrongly optimistic that Fitbit might take up the flag of an enthusiast smartwatch. However, I can also acknowledge without Fitbit's involvement, the situation would be much worse!
Well I didn't know that!
Yay Fitbit for buying them out, but sadly not continuing the pebble lineage. I nearly bought a Pebble watch and I'm surprised that they were going to file for insolvency.
And boo Google for buying Fitbit and then putting lots of features behind premium subscription.
(Don't tell me Google saved Fitbit.. 😂)
#CRV Quick edit and boo CRV, a crappy venture capital firm that forced the sale of Pebble which was bad for consumers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CRV_(venture_capital_firm)&diffonly=true
I think pebble was going to fold anyways, so Fitbit basically scooped up the remains.
Just find someone with the APK
Email a Google engineer if you can't find it online ...there's no pebble forums or subreddits?
Why the hell would you ever buy a watch that couldn't sync to a computer?
This is wild I don't know who should be smacked upside the head here.
The APK has worked great for a long time, but doesn't work with new versions of Android (I think it's 13 onwards). They can also work with Gadgetbridge, but you lose some of the functionality.
Works fine on Android 14 here. Google even released an update, long after Pebble had become history, to fix support for newer Android versions.
Instructions and APK are now available from Rebble: https://help.rebble.io/setup-android/#1