Your thoughts are wrong, plain and simple. Delusional at best. It was so far from a great product that I'd like a list of other things you think are good so that I can avoid them.

This is a very personal device segment, and privacy/security should come before everything else. I couldn't imagine being naive enough to think some nonamers could achieve this, or that android is even worth mentioning in this context. Apple's the only one to actually ship a compelling and useful product in any capacity past mere novelty.

Pebble was a dogshit piece of hardware with an absolutely dogshit API. It was far from slimline, nearly unreadable in most real world conditions (try reading an exit number off your wrist while you're on a motorcycle, I'll wait), slow as hell, and wildly insecure. They were also extremely fragile (they are incapable of surviving a common skateboard fall, let alone a brush with a brick wall while walking). Nothing screams quality like soft rubber buttons most commonly found on happy meal toys and TV remotes and a screen reminescient of a tamagatchi. I used those survival scenarios because they are all things my fruit watch has shrugged off without so much as a scratch! Actually took a chunk out of the corner of the brick wall when I accidentally swung my wrist into it :X

Pull the wool from over your eyes and look back into all the promises they made, and then walked back from. Do you remember when they told us it'd have sapphire crystal faces? Or injection molded ceramic bodies? The myriad list of features that silently fell by the wayside. They're a textbook example of how to fleece idiots on kickstarter. By the way, part of their problem wasn't that they tried to get too big, it was that they preferred large numbers of cheap hires. They weren't being hired for their talent, they were being mined for their social capital. This is an extremely common tactic found in other industries such as the loan/mortgage refinancing industry. Hire graduates > harvest referrals from friends and family who think they're helping this person look good at work > gone 18 months later with nothing to show for it.

Before you write me off as a hater, know that I was one of the very first backers on kickstarter and was so utterly disappointed that they had missed the mark to such an extent that I threw it in a macerating toilet and flushed it, then tweeted the video to the CEO. It's so much more than hate. It's vehement disgust. I just spit on the ground

The 1st gen apple watch by itself is leaps and bounds more useful. I specifically mention the 1st gen watch because of the way it works with the phone (similar to how og pebble functioned, only, not pants on head worthless), and also because it's still the thinnest amongst their roster. If you never used it for anything else other than haptic feedback to know wether you will have to turn left or right while driving, and heart rate/steps, it would still be leagues above anything Pebble ever managed to ship.

Good rittance.

I'm not interested in anything you have to say in response to this. I just want everyone else to know that pebble was so far removed from anything resembling "great", let alone "good" or even "merely ok"