I'd love to see the Pebble hardware running Android Wear (maybe fixed by Fitbit to last longer) with Pixel branding. I'm hopeful.
I'd love to see the Pebble hardware running Android Wear (maybe fixed by Fitbit to last longer) with Pixel branding. I'm hopeful.
That's the really impressive achievement of Pebble. They built a smartwatch software platform that was orders of magnitude more efficient than Apple or Google, but still a joy to use. That efficiency gave them the flexibility to make hardware design choices (e.g. 7 day battery or 7.5mm thickness or $99 price) that Google or Apple could never make.
I can make a Pebble app that feels complete without doing any real design work. Because there's not much design that can be done.
I'd be really excited to see something similar in a more traditional watch form factor.
That was the magic of Pebble: fitting an honest-to-god smartwatch on the hardware of a fitness tracker.
I actually think google would benefit from differentiating their consumer tech from their search/adwords products.