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For 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'
by elsurudo 10y ago
For 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.