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Re:We're bringing Pebble back by echelon on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:34PM (#42845902)
Feels a little bit salty to send customers to Google's competitor given the fact that Google provided the exit and also liberated the code. They didn't have to do that.

A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.

Re:We're bringing Pebble back by erohead on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:02PM (#42846204)
Good call, I just changed it to send to pixel watch if opened on Android or Windows!
Re:We're bringing Pebble back by wlesieutre on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:07PM (#42846258)
I thought they killed FitBit and are doing Pixel Watch again instead

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_watch_3

Re:We're bringing Pebble back by alex_young on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:03PM (#42846219)
I think it’s perfect actually.

Google used to (still?) have a page internally where if you clicked on “I don’t care about security” it sent you to the jobs page of a competitor that had suffered a notable breach.

Very on point.

Re:We're bringing Pebble back by wkat4242 on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:00PM (#42846191)
It's just a joke I think. But yeah linking to the pixel watch would have been nicer.
Re:We're bringing Pebble back by Reason077 on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:10PM (#42848477)
> "A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit."

Fitbit has already gone off to the great Google graveyard, unfortunately.

Re:We're bringing Pebble back by shaklee3 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:47AM (#42849249)
no. they just released the Fitbit ace
Re:We're bringing Pebble back by imp0cat on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:19AM (#42850767)
Cue Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. :)

Fitbit isn't dead yet, but it's not doing great either. And the alternatives kinda suck (tldr; the best choice is probably a Garmin for 3x as much money and with less features ).