Did we ever really need a phone on our wrists?
As soon as I held the Pebble Round 2 in my hand, I suddenly realized what I’d been missing for the better part of a decade. I’ve always felt smartwatches should supplement, rather than supplant, your phone, but that’s an attitude that feels almost quaint these days.
This is a bit misleading.
Rebble is a group that acquired pebble IP from fitbit and later google, adding to an already big repo of apps and functionality, but more importantly making it open source.
When core devices started working with them, they apparently withheld some of the new firmware work from rebble, which violated the terms of the agreement and the license.
This has since been resolved.