I think the pebble was one of the first big smart watches, and here is a picture of mine paying tribute to my other hobby, retro computing.

I lost this watch on a skiing trip. Today I am more fascinated by mechanical watches, but I still miss this guy. I think I had the Apple Watch nailed a solid year before Apple. Today I am more fascinated by mechanical watches, but if they still made these I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

  • meteotsunami@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Pebble was everything that was right about connected watches. It wasn’t a spy. It didn’t nag you to walk around. It just did what it did and that was passive notifications. I had two, but neither survived very long before the screens would flip out. Everything else that came along afterwards was definitely not my cup of tea and I went back to mechanical and automatic watches.

  • Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    I miss my pebble watch. best alarm I ever had. battery was great so you didn’t have to charge at night, so you could sleep with it on; and it peacefully vibrates to wake you up gently, so great.

  • Captain Gandalf@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    I loved my Pebbles (red and Time) so much. I’ve moved on to mechanical watches but it was one of my all-time favorites.

  • GuyDudeman
    3·
    2 years ago

    OMG, is that a MacOS 6 theme?? I so want that for my Apple Watch.

    • Cal🦉OPMB
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah! Pretty cool, huh? I love old Macs. I still have a working Macintosh SE/30 next to my “real” computer. I have Excel on there and use it to do my budget every month.

      The pebble had so many themes back in the day, but this is the one I rocked most of the time.

      • GuyDudeman
        2·
        2 years ago

        That’s so rad. I had a working original Macintosh that I bought at a school sale back in college. I think it’s still in my parents’ garage. Haven’t talked to them in ten years, so I don’t know. One of the few things I wish I could get back from them.

        I took an iMac to college with me, and I loved theming out MacOS 9 to the retro OS’s and the other different themes you could use with Appearance manager and Kaleidoscope. That takes me back! :)

  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    I purchased one when it came up. I think there were “smart” watches before it, and it came as an alternative for long battery duration, which was amazing, and also focused in only important stuff to notify. I think it failed because the lack of all the bloat.

    • Cal🦉OPMB
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thanks! r/watches was my favorite subreddit and I was hoping to find a replacement community. Since there didn’t seem to be a lot of action here, I thought I’d try to get the ball rolling.

  • mort@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve got somewhat mixed feelings about the Pebble. It was great for its time, but it didn’t look that great - esp. the later version with limited colors and huge bezel. Also, I could never be bothered to start development - it felt too much like going back to early MS-DOS days (C, limited memory, …). And finally, there was this graceless death in the middle of a Kickstarter to a version that seemed like a better compromise than the ones before.

  • binarybomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    The pebble is still my favorite smart watch ever, the escreen and the long battery has not been beaten! I still have mine and still works!

  • TenSlot85
    1·
    2 years ago

    Holy blast from the past. I adored my Pebble Time Steel. When the battery wore I out I switched to a Fitbit Versa but it just wasn’t the same. Sold it and went back to “dumb” watches. The Pebble really was something special.