cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49271943
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.”
Well, the all metal casing makes the Pebble Time 2 feel pretty sturdy, and it is waterproof to 5 atm, but yeah, screen design seems to be a flaw, albeit one that people are already making simple bumper covers and such to fix.
For all those other points, yeah, Pebbles have been great for being able to actually read the screen all the time, get filtered notifications, and the buttons make music control way easier than any touch screen smart watch I’ve used. Pretty sure it isn’t capable of being a Bluetooth range extender though.