@Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 5 months agoOpen source smart watchesmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1message-squareOpen source smart watches@Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 5 months agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
If you were to go out today and buy an open source smart watch to pair with a GrapheneOS phone which would you choose?
minus-square@GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink3•5 months agoI was so annoyed that Google bought both Pebble and Fitbit, then did… absolutely nothing with them. Would’ve loved a low-end (sub $100) fitness tracker with ePaper. Best thing they did was to release the pebble rights back to the creators.
minus-squareDiplomjodlerlinkfedilink3•5 months agoLarge corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.
minus-squareSemperveruslinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoSometimes. Most times they buy them to gut them for their patents. Fitbit and Pebble both probably had some patents that Google really wanted.
minus-squareanguolinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoSince they open sourced pebble, I’m hoping a Chinese firm will make a clone soon.
I was so annoyed that Google bought both Pebble and Fitbit, then did… absolutely nothing with them. Would’ve loved a low-end (sub $100) fitness tracker with ePaper.
Best thing they did was to release the pebble rights back to the creators.
Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.
Sometimes. Most times they buy them to gut them for their patents. Fitbit and Pebble both probably had some patents that Google really wanted.
Since they open sourced pebble, I’m hoping a Chinese firm will make a clone soon.