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I love the animation when you click "No" on "Do you want a new Pebble?". So extra.
by vermarish 2y ago
I love the animation when you click "No" on "Do you want a new Pebble?". So extra.
- cryptozeus 2y agowhy not redirect to google watches specially if the team is from goodle !
- soxocx 2y agoOn the iPhone I get redirected to the Apple Store page for the Apple Watch. Nice humor.
- benbristow 2y agoSame on Mac (Firefox)
- pohuing 2y agoSame on android Firefox& Chrome
- jacobgkau 2y agoI think it's just a static redirect, it sent me to the Apple Watch page in Firefox on Linux. But I also wondered if it would shuffle between a few different brands or something (I guess not).
- cjonas 2y agoI got redirected to pixel
- HaZeust 2y agoIt looks like: - Chromium browsers (tested in Edge, Chrome, Brave) go to Pixel Watch, - Android devices go to Pixel Watch, - Apple devices go to Apple Watch, - Firefox brings you to Apple Watch. It might also be randomized, but that's what my tests got me, and only the Firefox one doesn't make humorous sense.
- splonk 2y agoLooks it tries to identify Apple devices and goes to Pixel for everything else. const platform = navigator.platform || ''; const userAgent = navigator.userAgent || ''; const isAppleDevice = /iPhone|iPad|MacIntel/.test(platform) || /iPhone|iPad|Mac OS/.test(userAgent); // Set redirect URL and message based on device const redirectUrl = isAppleDevice ? 'https://www.apple.com/watch' : 'https://store.google.com/product/pixel_watch_3?hl=en-US'; Edit: per erohead, that change was made after your comment.
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- Findecanor 2y agoI got a tiny bit offended by the assumption that I'd rather have an Apple Watch. I'd think the ideal for me would instead be something in-between a Pebble and a Sensor Watch. Something hackable with more battery life, that is a watch first (and a smartphone notification screen never). I wonder how far I could go towards that goal with the upcoming Pebble hardware and rewriting the OS kernel to sleep more.
- bean-weevil 2y agoI interpreted it as an intentional insult :)
- hbn 2y agoWhat if you clicked no because you already own a Pebble?
- pinoy420 2y agoUpgrade option
- ctkhn 2y agoGotta be honest I feel like Garmin is the perfect balance of pebble vs apple watch
- WD-42 2y agoI like my instinct, but Garmin is so locked down, less hackable than even an Apple Watch.
- teruakohatu 2y agoYou can download the SDK and side load applications. No annual developer fee. Not sure how it’s more locked down.
- abcd_f 2y agoDon’t know about Apple Watch development, but the scope of what you can do with Garmin's SDK is limited, apps run in a VM, ie no native code with respective performance issues and, as important, their developer support is a complete and utter garbage. It's a lucky day when someone from Garmin graces Forums with their presence and bestows few sentences they think could pass for an answer. In other words, yeah, the SDK is free, you can side-load and it’s not hard to write for, but you just can't write much.
- scarface_74 2y agoYou run native code on the Watch itself and most of the limitations are around not doing anything that will kill the small battery.
- abcd_f 2y agoNope, not native code. > Monkey C compiles into byte code that is interpreted by a virtual machine, similar to Java. https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/reference-guides/monkey-c-reference https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/reference-guides/mon..., 2nd paragraph.
- echelon 2y agoFeels a little bit salty to send customers to Google's competitor given the fact that Google provided the exit and also liberated the code. They didn't have to do that. A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.
- wkat4242 2y agoIt's just a joke I think. But yeah linking to the pixel watch would have been nicer.
- erohead 2y agoGood call, I just changed it to send to pixel watch if opened on Android or Windows!
- alex_young 2y agoI think it’s perfect actually. Google used to (still?) have a page internally where if you clicked on “I don’t care about security” it sent you to the jobs page of a competitor that had suffered a notable breach. Very on point.
- wlesieutre 2y agoI thought they killed FitBit and are doing Pixel Watch again instead https://store.google.com/product/pixel_watch_3 https://store.google.com/product/pixel_watch_3
- Reason077 2y ago> "A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit." Fitbit has already gone off to the great Google graveyard, unfortunately.
- eloisant 2y agoThe feature I use the most on my smartwatch is paying. So if they can bring contactless payments to their new Pebble they have my attention, otherwise it's useless to me.
- jsheard 2y agoI wouldn't count on that, getting every bank on board is a massive undertaking. Even Garmin Pay and Fitbit Pay (before it was folded into Google Wallet) have/had huge gaps in their coverage, especially outside of the US.
- ZeWaka 2y agoThere exists 'smart bands', which can be applied to any (generally non-smart, obviously) watch that uses normal pin-style watchbands. They have a contactless chip in them that can store one card. My traditional watches use them, though I had to custom-make one of the bands to be in a style I wanted.
- NikolaNovak 2y agoThat is awesome... Any links? Any risk vectors I may be missing?
- ryukafalz 2y agoFrom what I've seen these aren't available in the US, unless I've missed one. (I would be very interested if so!)
- ZeWaka 2y agoThe only one I'm aware of in the US is the basically-discontinued Timex Pay. It requires a Chase bank account / card to link with, however.
- miki123211 2y agoHow do those handle user authentication and card installation? I assume you need support from your bank for the former and PINs for the latter?
- edarchis 2y agoThe amount of us who clicked no is amazing. I loved my Pebble Time but I'm going to give money to yet another Kickstarter and have it be killed shortly after.