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Here is hoping the revival is at least as good as the originals instead of a cheap cash grab on the product name and history.
the original founder is involved and it's been open sourced so hopefully
The original founder is a hack who has bailed on each of his companies. When Pebble shut down people were supposed to keep their jobs. Many found at the last minute that their jobs weren't part of the deal.
He then started Beeper, fucked around and found out with Apple iMessage without a plan and then almost immediately gave up, which is wild because Beeper was a paid service. Don't even get me started on the privacy implications of having them in control of all your bridges and them needing a fleet of Macs online to push the iMessages through. This meant, especially early in development, you were handing a bunch of credentials to Beeper. (Not to mention my own personal experience with their lack of care towards user privacy) He then bailed and sold the whole thing to that dickbag Matt Mullenweg.
Eric Migicovsky sucks noodles and I don't trust him. This definitely feels like a cash grab. This guy has failed upward too many fucking times.
EDIT: Also to be clear, Google made this Open Source very recently after buying Fitbit a few years ago. Migicovsky jumping in feels to me explicitly like a cash grab.
I’m hesitant with Eric as well, mostly coming out of the fact it sounds like they’re completely separate from the rebble team that kept the watches going for the past decade. But they are using the rebble discord to interact with people so maybe we’ll see.
Either way, no, the source code was only open sourced on the 27th.
Also see the actual repository.
If you have any evidence otherwise, I’d be interested as I’ve been following all of this since the original kickstarter. But I’m thinking you might be mixing what rebble is as it’s not the source code.
Either way, not sure how this will go, I’m wishful as I really don’t want to see pebble go bankrupt again.
Apparently one of the people on the Rebble board is working on the project:
Source
Sorry, that's me wording it badly. I know Google only open sourced it only very recently, but they did buy Fitbit "a few years ago" in 2021. I mostly just meant that Micigovsky seemingly had nothing to do with it getting open sourced. I'm sorry for the confusion, that's on me and a badly worded sentence.