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i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble. it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$
by aucisson_masque 2y ago
i expected the price to be cheap, like the original pebble.
it's trying to make a cheap product into a niche product with kind of premium price, 150$ and 225$ for a watch is already pretty high.
The people who can afford it, they already got apple watch.
- repeekad 2y agoApple Watches start at $250 and up to over $1k, pebbleOS offers way more functionality and 10x battery life, they’re not overlapping audiences
- sulam 2y agoSorry but while I won’t argue the battery life angle, you really cannot say that the PebbleOS offers significantly more functionality than WatchOS. It just ain’t so.
- noname120 2y agoDo Pebble watches have GPS, cellular, and almost medical-grade sleep analysis? Are they rated for 50m underwater?
- dag11 2y agoI had an original Kickstarter Pebble, a Pebble Time, and am probably ordering this new Pebble, but I have to say you have it the other way around. Apple Watch has 10x the functionality in this comparison, but they're both delightful devices and I'm excited to have a Pebble back in my rotation!
- DecentShoes 2y agoApple Watch doesn't work on Android, and Android Wear watches are laggy garbage with stupid round screens. There are zero good options on the Android side, so something like Pebble\Core has value.
- c22 2y agoThe Pebble Time was $150 and the Time Steel was $250. That was also 10 years of inflation ago.
- theodric 2y agoDisagree, with the following reasoning: 1. IIRC the first Pebble was $99, and the one after it was $149. We're a decade on, inflation is rampant, and the new devices are evidently intended as lower volume products. $149 seems OK to me in 2025. $225 seems OK as well for the color unit, but I don't feel like waiting until December, and can't justify buying two watches. I put my money down for the $149 unit. We'll see how much it ends up being by the time it's on my wrist in Ireland. My current "smart" watch is a Mi Band 6. I'm on screen no.2, strap no.3, and shortly battery no.2: all told, I certainly have $100 invested in it by now, even though it cost me 42 Swiss Francs ($45?) to buy initially. 2. There are other hacking-friendly watches out there, but they do not have the depth of app ecosystem that Pebble did/does. I think those thousands of watchfaces and applications ready to fire on day1 are worth something. This is not a net-new smartwatch environment, it is an established if a bit aged standard that is being polished back up for the modern world. 3. I'm the target market, but I definitely don't have an Apple watch because it doesn't work with Android devices, and I absolutely detest iOS (and am increasingly frustrated with Apple's blatant cash grab-ism vis-a-vis RAM and flash prices on their computers to the point that I've pivoted back to Linux devices).
- brianshaler 2y ago> can't justify buying two watches I managed to eke out a couple more years after Pebbles were discontinued by finding replacements on ebay. If this is a low volume run, I'm contemplating the opposite—whether I can justify not buying multiple while I still can.
- theodric 2y agoFine, I ordered three.
- tombert 2y agoIt's a lot, but for the smartwatch world it's not that bad. My Garmin Instinct Crossover was $400, for example.