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The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback. Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one. (www.theverge.com)

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Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd wear a smart watch again if it didn't suck ass and had a cool epaper display. But like... was the software being tied up the only barrier? He couldn't get someone else to just make new watch software?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's patent and IP implications. They sold EVERYTHING to Fitbit, which I think included their rights to develop a software that would have been essentially the same.