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Have you gone through these steps? https://help.rebble.io/recover-developer-account/?viewall=true", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble app store recovery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"}, {"id": 735580704, "item_id": 45973794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973794", "by": "Brian_K_White", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Rebble honors copyright by taking anything down that a rightsholder says to.", "excerpt": "Core doesn not have any rights to it. Pebble did, and Pebble threw it away. Rebble honors copyright by taking anything down that a rightsholder says to. That's all copyright grants, and they are doing it. If you own an app and don't want Rebble to redistribute it, they won't. Core has no claim to anything. This is CoreTube coming along years later \"Hey I used to work for Youtube. 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I'm also a bit sad that this is the first we're hearing of this tension, because it likely would've changed my decision to purchase a new Core 2 Duo watch, and I would've preferred this sort of falling out happen before a lot of devices have been purchased.", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble watch services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Core Devices keeps stealing our work"}, {"id": 734746112, "item_id": 45921632, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921632", "by": "liampulles", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its been fun to play around building a watchface in the mean time", "excerpt": "Looking forward to getting my Pebble Time 2. Its been fun to play around building a watchface in the mean time: https://developer.rebble.io/tutorials/watchface-tutorial/part1/", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble watchface development", "switched_from": "", "story": "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 736634656, "item_id": 46039666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039666", "by": "liampulles", "date": "2025-11-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Rebble Foundation's response to this was totally immature and irrational", "excerpt": "I agree, and Rebble themselves highlight how inflammatory their initial blog post was in their most recent one: https://rebble.io/2025/11/24/rebble-in-your-own-world.html . They also backed down from their ludicrous position that they are acting as protectors of other people's watchfaces being downloaded in bulk by a particular company they don't like, whereas they are totally fine with the watchfaces being publicly ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pebble Watch software is now open source"}, {"id": 735631856, "item_id": 45976991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976991", "by": "arghwhat", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Rebble no longer represents any of the community, just a misguided and greedy board.", "excerpt": "The board falsely accused someone of a crime. The board members must take responsibility of that decision, which involves their interactions being evidence in claims of said crime. That responsibility is part of what it means to lead something. It's a little gross it had come to that, but ugh. 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This is what I think the history is: * The official weather app on the old Pebble used a weather server they ran, and stopped working when that service shutdown. * The old faces did not use that service, but instead each one wrote their own code to fetch weather information from a variety of sources, most of which have since shutdown or changed in incompatible ways, however some ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pebble Round 2 \u2013 The Most Stylish Pebble Ever"}, {"id": 736634656, "item_id": 46039666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039666", "by": "liampulles", "date": "2025-11-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Rebble Foundation's response to this was totally immature and irrational", "excerpt": "I agree, and Rebble themselves highlight how inflammatory their initial blog post was in their most recent one: https://rebble.io/2025/11/24/rebble-in-your-own-world.html . 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Have you gone through these steps? https://help.rebble.io/recover-developer-account/?viewall=true", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble app store recovery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"}, {"id": 735631856, "item_id": 45976991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976991", "by": "arghwhat", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Rebble no longer represents any of the community, just a misguided and greedy board.", "excerpt": "The board falsely accused someone of a crime. The board members must take responsibility of that decision, which involves their interactions being evidence in claims of said crime. That responsibility is part of what it means to lead something. It's a little gross it had come to that, but ugh. Sure rebble did good for the community, but that past tense is important. Now they're trying to do bad, and that cannot be ju", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"}, {"id": 735580704, "item_id": 45973794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973794", "by": "Brian_K_White", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Rebble honors copyright by taking anything down that a rightsholder says to.", "excerpt": "Core doesn not have any rights to it. Pebble did, and Pebble threw it away. Rebble honors copyright by taking anything down that a rightsholder says to. That's all copyright grants, and they are doing it. If you own an app and don't want Rebble to redistribute it, they won't. Core has no claim to anything. This is CoreTube coming along years later \"Hey I used to work for Youtube. 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I'm also a bit sad that this is the first we're hearing of this tension, because it likely would've changed my decision to purchase a new Core 2 Duo watch, and I would've preferred this sort of falling out happen before a lot of devices have been purchased.", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble watch services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Core Devices keeps stealing our work"}, {"id": 735380432, "item_id": 45961277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961277", "by": "modeless", "date": "2025-11-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Rebble for many years and bought the new Core Devices watches.", "excerpt": "I used Rebble for many years and bought the new Core Devices watches. The truth is Rebble will die without new hardware. It was declining in usage and I myself stopped using it when my old Pebble hardware gave out, until the prospect of new hardware came around. There needs to be a business making money to build the hardware to support this community. I appreciate that Rebble kept the flame alive, but I support Eric ", "context": "Pebble user", "use_case": "Pebble watch services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Core Devices keeps stealing our work"}, {"id": 734746112, "item_id": 45921632, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921632", "by": "liampulles", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its been fun to play around building a watchface in the mean time", "excerpt": "Looking forward to getting my Pebble Time 2. Its been fun to play around building a watchface in the mean time: https://developer.rebble.io/tutorials/watchface-tutorial/part1/", "context": "", "use_case": "Pebble watchface development", "switched_from": "", "story": "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"}]}