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Eight years after the emerging watch work endMigicovsky said he worked with a small group on a smartwatch like a pebbleos pebbles. There should be some new features, but the new clock will maintain the truth with the core vision. With enough registration, the website declared, that clock was manufactured.
Pebble, launched in 2012, is one of the first smart smartwatches, selling 2 million samples and serving as one Successful story for community fundraising hardware. After relative Lack of experience in hardware Running into sponsorship gaps and fierce competition from Apple Watch, Pebble stopped making watches A sales only for IP for Fitbit in 2016. Google bought Fitbit in 2021There are also some original stone workers, who later helped Rebble project Start web services instead of watches and keep watches operating Latest Android phone.
Keep everything simple
Why does someone want to make an electronic clock 2016 back? A big reason is Google, motivated by the stones and volunteers in their home, Issued most of the source code for the operating system of Pebble. It lacks some exclusive chipset spots and Bluetooth stacks, but it can be built, if not fully translated. There is a number of non -trivial jobs that have to do in searching for the replacement for those parts, as well as the updated old source code, Google post. But anyone who wants to make a stone watch is now possible Use Pebble's code.
With that code, Migicovsky can solve the second reason for a new pebble without nothing to actually replace the original. On his blog.
Migicovsky wrote that a small group is dealing with hardware aspects, creating a Pebbleos operating watch and basically has the same specifications and features similar to Pebble, but there are new things. Important, they are on a different way with the original Pebble Company:
Still not an Apple watch – according to the design
Ars Technica asked Migicovsky via email if modern Pebble has better interaction with Apple's iPhone compared to the original models. “No, even less than now!” Migicovsky answered, pointing in The lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice against Apple in 2024. The lawsuit claims that Apple has restricted the function of third -party smartwatches to keep people using Apple watches and later, it is less likely to move from the iPhone.
The core function of Migicovsky details on his post, he wrote, can still be on iOS. Some certain advanced features, such as responding to notifications with spelling by voice, can be limited to Android phones.
Migicovsky's websites and blogs do not set time for new hardware. His last big project, multi -protocol chat application Secret headused to be Sell to owner WordPress.com Automattic In April 2024, after one The battle lasted with Apple Access to its iMessage protocol.
This story initially appeared on Ars Technica.