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I'll admit to being disappointed. After the Pebble Steel I thought they were going to take appearances seriously, but the Pebble Time barely even looks better than the original Pebble. Maybe if they make a Pebble Time Steel it'll be the one for me (and the sales figures suggest plenty do not agree with me).

That said, kudos to them for getting it out and being independent competition to Android Wear and the Apple Watch. We need that.

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Yeah it is too bad. I know many people who will not wear a smart watch if it doesn't look good. And these are people who have / wear many fashion watches of various sizes. The apple watch is the first watch that they actually like appearance wise.

At least come out with a shiny gold, brass and rose gold colored versions. Not actual gold mind you, just gold colored. There are certain market segments that love those colors.

I don't need fashionable watch. But this thing looks so childish.

I don't need a fashionable watch, but I really don't need an ugly watch. My phone tells time, shows notification, and does everything this does perfectly fine.

If it were fashionable, I'd be tempted. But it has to be at least one of useful and fashionable.

You don't, but many other segments do.

They announced it would be actual gold. Just like for luxury gold watches.

I know, but for example, the 'champagne' (gold) color iPhone 6 is a very popular color in China. That's why I said it doesn't have to be actual gold.

Ah sorry, it sounded like you thought that was what they were doing. re-reading I get it now.

Just wait for it. In the coming weeks we will probably see a steel version added to the Kickstarter

Nah, they'll probably wait a year first like last time. They know that too many people would just shift their pledge over to a steel version. It'd make waiting to release it pointless

They've specifically hinted that they want people to shift their pledges to a "surprise" that's coming later in the campaign.

It's been speculated that the metal version will be called "Business Time" :P

It's like the started with a target price ("N under Apple Watch") and worked backwards. I don't care if it costs more, the industrial design of this pebble is too cheap for me to wear.

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