The name “Pebble” is one of those who cause nostalgia for anyone who recognizes it. In his time, it seemed to represent the beginning of a new era in the “laptops”, to disappear dramatic; Now, Pebble's spirit has an excellent opportunity to come back for everything that is big, and all thanks to Google.
Pebble was born in the era of “crowdfunding”, when it seemed that everything was possible if enough people contributed to money. The original project used Kickstarter to obtain funding to create an intelligent watch, accumulating more than $ 10 million, at that time the most successful project of the platform. The result was a “portable” device like no otherWho stood out for its black and white screen to consume less battery and the possibilities explored with the user community.
Unfortunately, the story of Pebble did not last long. After the failure of Pebble 2, Fitbit quickly acquired most of his assets, although he really did not do much more with them beyond the maintenance of the support for existing users. In turn, Fitbit was bought by Google in 2021, and Since then, Pebble has been in limbo As one of the many brands belonging to The Giant. Although the user community has continued to maintain and develop its watches, it did not have much help. Until today.
Google has announced that published the source code of PebbleosThe operating system used by Pebble watches, so that anyone can download and modify it; And this is the best gift that the community could have received. Instead of recovering the brand of pebbles and recovery of devices with its name, Google has chosen to help volunteers and fans of the brand who continue to keep it alive with independent developments.
With the publication of the Pebbleos source code, these enthusiasts now have a free way to continue to develop the system and adapt it to new devices; And that's exactly what they are going to do. Eric Migicovsky, creator of Pebble, has already announced the development of a New spiritual successor of intelligent watch of the original model And it will use pebbles; Migicovsky publicly thanks Google for publishing the code, which will allow the plans that it had to relaunch these devices.
The new Migicovsky watch will be based on an electronic ink screen, to keep the aesthetics in black and white and commitment to a long -term battery. Instead of complicating things and trying to compete with intelligent watches with Wear OS, Migicovsky promises that it will maintain simple things and have learned the lesson of the Pebble 2.. The new clock will essentially have the same characteristics as the pebble d 'Origin, and that is why the development team will not be large, and it does not even plan to seek investors for the project.
It should be noted that the pebble brand still belongs to Google, and therefore, the new watch will not be able to use this name. But apart from this detail, we are faced with a legendary apparatus for enthusiasts.
