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I remember reading that the Bluetooth stack was one of the main differentiators for Pebble at the time due to its reliability, shame it's not included here.
by v9v 2y ago
I remember reading that the Bluetooth stack was one of the main differentiators for Pebble at the time due to its reliability, shame it's not included here.
- aryonoco 2y agoIn 2014, that certainly was true. Every open source Bluetooth stack (i.e., Android, Linux and FreeBSD) was buggy and unreliable. Since then they rewrote the Bluetooth stack in Android twice, and finally what's in AOSP is quite comprehensive and reliable. It's now been merged into ChromeOS as well. I feel like it's the same about many of the items mentioned above, the free/libre offering in that space are a lot more polished than was the case 9-10 years ago. Back then the audio codec was still a patent encumbered minefield, now you can just use opus. The quality and diversity of free fonts is ordered of magnitudes above what it was 10 years ago. In short, it should be much easier for Eric to fill those gaps with free/open offerings than it was 10 years ago.