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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

  • rhymepurple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    261·
    21 hours ago

    I understand that the watch operating system is open source. However, it seems that the watch will connect to a companion smartphone app. Do you know if the app is a requirement and/or if the app will be open source?

      • rhymepurple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        11 hours ago

        It is not clear that this is the app that will be used for the new watches. I imagine it will support the new RePebble watches, but I believe that app was intended for the original Pebble watches.

        The thing that makes it so unclear to me is that this is a repo owned by the Rebble team, not the RePebble team. I do not know how much overlap there is between the two teams, but the RePebble team does not have any open source repos that I could find. Any mention of open source software by RePebble (including the OS) are links to repos owned by other teams, which is a little concerning.

        • Thurstylark@lemm.eeEnglish
          28·
          19 hours ago

          The hand-wavy answer is: go check the code and find out, however that’s not accessible to everyone.

          The helpful answer is: The code is out there, and the launch date is far enough away that those who do understand it enough to make that distinction should have the time to do so before it ships, so time will tell.

          The Rebble folks probably are the closest to knowing, given they’ve been hacking on the current app for the past several years.

          My guess is probably not. The target audience probably wouldn’t be cool with it.

          Also, there are 3rd party watchfaces and apps that will be available, so that code will need to be evaluated too. So, it’s more complicated than a single yes or no.