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Maaaaan... the more I think about #pebble, the more sad I get that the most people remember them as are "the guys that got bought out by fitbit." That does the watches a disservice tbh.
Because those little things are still super useful. No modern smartwatch *still* does just those few things the Pebble does, and do it well - without feeling sterile or an afterthought.
It knew its limits, it was a companion first and foremost, and it was a TOOL at the end of the day.
Kind of sad that the Pebbles are seen mostly as "toyish" and not serious devices (I've had my mom say something similar when she noticed), despite having the near-seamless function of a tool that helped alleviate me getting distracted by my phone all the time.
Meanwhile, the modern smartwatches from Apple et al that people take seriously are the gadget-y toys that are trying to be a phone on a wrist. THEY're the distractions, really - who wants to browse the internet on a sub-inch display?
I could be a bit bitter, maybe, but like--I had a Wear OS device.
It was bigger, heavier, bonked against the wall when I was trying to sleep, the screen was bright as shit at night but could barely be seen in the day.
The notifications were pretty nice, but if I couldn't see the time half the time then--you see the problem? And the dingus thing *barely* lasted over a day.
None of these things have changed tbh. I'm baffled that the Pebble Time still does everything better, while being half as big
It really is just that modern smartwatches *still* haven't replaced the Pebble formula.
Many other things have seen evolutions or replacements. The PSP, succeeded by the Vita; Nexus devices succeeded by Pixels, and LGs succeeded by--
uh, I'll get back to you on that last one.
But if you just want a notification machine that lasts a week, with customization and a community only rivaled by Linux, the Pebble's still the only thing around. It's a niche that's been long neglected. And now I'm sad.