With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch developer war, at least for now

Re:With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch develope... by ccozan on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @10:11AM (#8788389)

Number of apps is not a measure of usefulness or enough for a buy decision. I have with my Moto 360 a, let say, small number of apps, but quite useful ( Google Now extension, navigation, remote photo trigger, fitness tools, to name a few). I know that more and more developers will add their wear-enabled apps and this will increase the functionality. The battery point is a good one, but while I sleep I have to take any watch off my hand so the point in my case is kind of moot.

Besides that, who would wear a kids like looking watch? Ok maybe some of us, but with some good leather straps, the Moto 360 looks really good and somehow unnoticed, like a normal watch. This gives me some real value, but also I am not a very young person too ;).

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Re:With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch develope... by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @11:22AM (#8788728)

Fellow 360 owner. The way this is tied to google services is really the value here. I don't need nor want to launch a dozen apps like some mini-smartphone. I want pushed updates, voice commands that actually do stuff, etc. I don't think people yet appreciate how clever AW is. It really is more of an unobtrusive yet helpful accessory for all the things on my phone than anything else. Which is exactly what a smartwatch should be.

All this talk about how Tizen on watches will beat AW and how watches will have their own 4G connection is really off the mark. Its just more mindless 'featuritis.' People want a good experience, not a checklist of features that suck to use in the real world.

The pebble reminds me of the Treo smartphones before the iphone came out. Sure it could do stuff, but it wasn't very pleasant and you had to be something of a techie expert to really make use of it. I'm surprised the pebble people haven't made an AW watch yet. They have the branding and the know-how. AW is going to steamroll them if they don't contemporize.

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Re:With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch develope... by bcraven on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @05:22PM (#8790556)

> who would wear a kids like looking watch?

If all Pebble Steel owners could channel their anger into comments below mine it may save us some space...

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Re:With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch develope... by krakensden on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @11:15AM (#8788697)

So... you want a Pebble Steel?

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