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Pebble watches to live on through 2017
- elsurudo 10y agoFor someone who has a Pebble watch: are they so dependent on the external services that if they were to go down, the watch is essentially bricked? If so, that's terrible, and it's a bad side-effect of everything being cloud-based. When you buy a piece of hardware, you don't really expect it to have an expiry date other than the if the device itself malfunctions, right? For lawyers: is this legal?
- x1798DE 10y agoI've personally never actually used any of the pebble cloud based services for mine, as I never trusted them with my data. I use GadgetBridge to pair it and manage the apps and update the time, etc. It's been somewhat limiting (GB deliberately doesn't have feature parity with the cloud services), but I definitely wouldn't call it "bricked". That said, I do think I downloaded most of my apps from Pebble's store, so without a backup of the Pebble store, you might be severely limited in your choices.