Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It might be one of those “you had to have been there” moments. It’s 2014, Obama was reelected, Uptown Funk was on the radio (there used to be this thing called FM radio), and there you are - a happy young thing reading texts on your watch in broad daylight, right the middle of a conversation. You felt like a cucumber straight from the freezer.

      I know all that sounds slightly laughable now, but there is an undeniable yearning for that zeitgeist compared to where we ended up.

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      It’s just a smartwatch that does some basic things right. The software is simple, it has buttons for control, it only does the very basics of smartwatching. There are no bells and whistles.

      Most of all, to me, it just feels right. It always did. Other smartwatches I’ve had were all too demanding of my attention.