You know, I didn't think so before the Apple Watch came out, but to your point...it does look that way now that I've been wearing the Watch for a few weeks. Interesting how quickly a jump forward in design can make existing competition look obsolete.
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You know, I didn't think so before the Apple Watch came out, but to your point...it does look that way now that I've been wearing the Watch for a few weeks. Interesting how quickly a jump forward in design can make existing competition look obsolete.
Love to know not if but how many law firms have talked to Pebble about suing Apple for anti-competitive practices.
As a Pebble watch owner and an Apple watch owner, we should all be pushing for Apple to release this app. Competition benefits the consumer. If Pebble can even remotely challenge Apple's watch, it would push Apple to continue to develop and improve their product to remain competitive (or to maintain their margin of dominance), so to speak. In my opinion, this benefits all of us.
There is a lot of money selling crap technology to a market that has no ability to judge quality. The fact that the Pebble Time is color and less expensive than any Apple Watch is enough for it to do well. You'd be amazed by how many people are willing to deal with daily software bugs and overall non-ideal design to save some money on a durable good.
Maybe someone who wanted a functional smart watch that you could leave on at night, for instance to do sleep monitoring, because the battery wasn't already dead?
Apple's behaviour on stuff like this makes me just want to scrap getting an Apple Watch. It's not very becoming of them.
Pebble isn't a competitor to the Apple Watch. It's too simplistic and in a different price point. Android watches, while janky, are more of a direct competitor.
It's within the normal review time. Learn what you're talking about before posting.
It's a watch that interfaces with the iPhone and is cheaper. It's a competitor. The fact that many consumers are on the fence between the 2 makes it a competitor. In some ways it's better. I have both so I can speak with some credibility on this matter.
They are in a grey-zone. Technically Apple smartphones is in what some call a "dual-opoly" where you have large firms working together keeping smaller firms from gaining market share. There were big time law-suits against the big three soda manufactures in the 80's keeping smaller bottlers from gaining market share. Once that dam broke, you saw the "soda revolution" of hundreds of regional brands showing up on supermarket shelves where many were acquired by one of the big three soda houses. Independent beers brewers followed along and so on.
Apple approves Microsoft's Health app for use with the Microsoft Band...Kindle Reader...Office for iOS...
That is not what a duopoly is, and Apple is not guilty of this, AND there aren't a bunch of regional brands of smartphones being held back by anyone. It's typically a low margin business with a high cost of entry.
Any competition & choice is good for us as Apple users - it drives Apple to add features (my own hopes for Watch v2 features that Pebble has are to be swim proof & have some form of "always on" time display) & puts downward pressure on prices (which would be welcome in the case of the Watch).
Still no idea why so much "hate" for Pebble. Pretty silly. No one is forcing anyone to buy one or taking away your Apple Watch (if you have one).
Personally I like that there are a variety of devices. Even more so that some ARE cross-platform.
Personally I like that there are a variety of devices. Even more so that some ARE cross-platform.
If you look at the status history in the screen shot, Pebble rejected their own app, maybe from a bug, after Apple approved it and it was ready to go to the app store. It does not sound like Pebble is trying to pin it on Apple. This article is just poorly written and the writer did not understand the circumstances behind Pebbles press update. They should just pull this article altogether from Macrumors since it is complete misinformation to people that are non developers and do not understand the status history screenshot that was posted.
Wrong.
Perhaps Pebble shouldn't have insulted Johnny Ive. Childish. Maybe that's why some people hate Pebble.
They will be bought or out of business within 2 years.
If Apple customers take that personally, I question their maturity - if not their sanity. And "insulted" is subjective. Still no reason to "hate" Pebble.
This will give us insight into how Apple might respond to the Android Wear iOS app which Google is supposedly working on. Maybe Apple is still deciding how to handle this.
The only comparison I can think of is back in 2001: There were third-party mp3 makers who were entitled to code software for the Mac, despite iPod + iTunes. Apple should let Apple Watch stand on it's own: Don't block competitors, make better products than them.
That's even if that is the reason for the delay, which obviously it might not be.
The only comparison I can think of is back in 2001: There were third-party mp3 makers who were entitled to code software for the Mac, despite iPod + iTunes. Apple should let Apple Watch stand on it's own: Don't block competitors, make better products than them.
That's even if that is the reason for the delay, which obviously it might not be.
This is how I feel too. I'm increasingly swayed by the thought of getting an Apple Watch, but I do have a Pebble Time on the way too, so I want to play with that first... then I might see the Apple Watch as the next step, a refinement. However, pressuring me to get the Apple Watch because the app for the Pebble Time isn't approved doesn't endear me to Apple... I actually feel pushed away more.
I sent an email to Tim, whether he reads it or not I have joined the battle to get the app approved. The ball is now in their court as to whether they're a big enough company to see this sort of petty behaviour has no place within them anymore.