Pebble’s Founder Is Pushing the Anti-Apple Watch, and He Doesn’t Need You to Care
gizmodo.com
Eric Migicovsky, leader of the revived Pebble, is making smartwatches for himself. You're just along for the ride.

Eric Migicovsky, leader of the revived Pebble, is making smartwatches for himself. You’re just along for the ride.

“Apple makes it incredibly difficult for third-party devices to interact with things like iMessage or Siri or any of the built-in features on iOS,” Migicovsky told Gizmodo in a freewheeling video interview. “And that sucks. That sucks for competition. That sucks for innovation. That sucks for price.”

  • yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Well the way I put it is too optimistic in a way, easy to do now knowing how things have ended. Back in the day there were a lot of open questions and indeed periods of down time with the services. Also long periods of time when no one knew if the next android or ios update would break something… or worse, completely break the app without a way to get it working again. So your perception at the time was probably correct.