Almost a decade after his disappearanceSmartwatch Maker Pebble is back – in terms of. Today, the founder of the company, Eric Migicovsky, has unveiled new hardware stores performing open source pebbleos. However, since Google has the pebble brand, it is not Pebble Smartwatches. Instead, say hello to the first watches of a new brand called Core Devices: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2.
For a brief lesson in history, Pebble rose in 2012 through a Kickstarter campaign that succeeds. Society smart watches Had electronic paper displays and arrived before the first Apple WatchOffering bearers the possibility of seeing notifications, creating personalized watch faces and even accessing an application shop, all with a battery life that lasted a week Despite a screen still on.
But the company Failure too quickly And then did not reach its sales objectives, finally deciding on sell. A few years later, Google bought FitbitThis meant that he had Pebble’s assets.
The original pebble smartwatches have not died – Fitbit kept the lights on for a while, and thanks to the cult fans of Pebble, a coalition of developers and enthusiasts helped launch the Rebble To replace the pebbles web services When Fitbit finally closed everything, so that the basic functions of the watches continued to operate.
But what allowed Migicovsky to present new equipment The execution of Pebbleos is Google’s decision to publish the source code in January. “I politely asked if they would open the operating system, and they did it very graciously,” Migicovsky told Wired. “We could not do what we do now if Google had not done that, so we are super grateful.”
New sheet
This brings us to the new brand of Migicovsky – Connection devices – a nod to the Pebble coreThe laptop without screen that has never shipped. This is a very small operation that consists of Migicovsky, another full -time employee and some entrepreneurs – he says he takes things a little more carefully this time. This is why there will only be 10,000 units available for the Core 2 duo and a little more of the Time Core 2—Pre -orders are live today If you want to reserve one.
“I intentionally try to build something sustainable, rather than a business to do fast growing,” said Migicovsky. “We take small risks, we do some products, one at a time – and with caution, carefully build this business to be sustainable. If we can do our job, build these watches and make people happy, build more. There is always more time.”
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