Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a lot. As a consequence, their battery life is generally poor. The industry's…
Their website has a question at the bottom “Are you still interested in Pebble?” And if you click yes, it’ll show you their new models, but there’s also a button for No, which takes you to Google’s latest smart watch. The “we’re not a big tech msgacorp” vibes are strong with this one.
It sent me to the Apple Watch. I have a Mac, so it’s probably using the User Agent.
The only reason Pebble has come back is that Google agreed to open source the software after the original pebble founder pleaded with them.
This is probably a cheap “thank you” for that.
Pebble in its current state is absolutely not a big tech megacorp lol
I mean this project was made by Google engineers (some of whom are ex Pebble engineers) so it’s not exactly a unbiased decision to link to Google smart watches
Someone else has it direct then to Apple store. They were on a Mac. They figure it’s user agent based and not Google being Google