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Good question! (I am the Pebble founder) When factories restart, not all of the workers who were working there before actually come back to work. Some of them
by erohead 11mo ago
Good question! (I am the Pebble founder)
When factories restart, not all of the workers who were working there before actually come back to work. Some of them stay in their hometowns or they get other jobs. This means that restarting the production line actually means retraining people on how to assemble the product. There is also an entire supply chain behind the assembly line that takes time to restart. Think of all the sub-components like plastics, metal components, etc. that need to be built at respective factories. It takes time to ship them to the primary factory for final assembly and test.
After the product gets assembled, there are several stages of testing, like gluing, environmental testing, final assembly test, and packaging, that take time as well. Then the product has to be shipped to the fulfillment center, packaged, labeled, and then shipped out. Each step time, and the process needs to completely re-start after CNY.
- apparent 11mo agoThanks for explaining this. Would you estimate that the January units will be more likely to have issues than the later ones, since they'll be first off the line? Or will there be no changes to the components/process that might make the later units more reliable?
- erohead 11mo agoThey should be identical.
- rkangel 11mo agoA good manufacturing process (with the appropriate level of testing) should result in yield variations, not quality variations. i.e. if the line is running less well for some reason, then you end up throwing more in the bin rather than shipping bad product.
- njovin 11mo agoSorry to hijack, but are there plans to re-manufacture the Pebble 2 Duo in black? I was one of the pre-orderers that was offered either a refund or a white version and chose the refund because I really had my heart set on the black and don't want a color screen. I'm also an OG Pebble enthusiast, although sadly my old one is long gone.
- jmcphers 11mo agoEric has made it clear that the Pebble 2 Duo was always going to be a limited run because it was made mostly of leftover components and there's no reasonable path towards making new copies of those components. > Pebble 2 Duo is sold out! We are not making more. https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software-setting-expectations-and-roadmap#quick-update-on-pebb https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software...
- t0bia_s 11mo agoThat's really disappointing! I want BW eink screen, I'm not interested in colour version at all.
- apparent 11mo agoOut of curiosity, what's the downside of color? The screen on the new watches is also substantially larger. AFAIK there's no discernible battery life penalty for the color watches (even with the larger screen).
- t0bia_s 11mo agoPrice, durability, battery life, contrast ratio and overall not usability for my needs.
- jmcphers 11mo agoIt really is, I wish there were a version of the Time 2 that had a BW screen. I did manage to snag one of the Pebble 2 Duos before they sold out and I love it. The contrast and reflectivity is unbeatable.