Even if Apple has its own watch in development, purchasing Pebble might be a smart move, if only to get their people/know-how. It's clearly a sharp little company.
I just found out I can use the Pebble with my chartplotter, perhaps reason enough for me to get one. Some of the more recent marine electronics are impressively connectable with remote devices. I already have a setup that lets a tablet or smartphone mirror the live sonar display so other fishermen on board have access to it.
The design has polish. What it lacks is post-1980s taste. It’ll work no worse than those big golden bracelets people wore back then.
…if it’s touch-enabled what is to keep it spinning around your wrist when you try to use it?
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I just found out I can use the Pebble with my chartplotter, perhaps reason enough for me to get one. Some of the more recent marine electronics are impressively connectable with remote devices. I already have a setup that lets a tablet or smartphone mirror the live sonar display so other fishermen on board have access to it.
The design has polish. What it lacks is post-1980s taste. It’ll work no worse than those big golden bracelets people wore back then.
That’s the beauty of it! Apple has taken that into account, and the inevitable spinning and uncontrollability of it are HOW you control it! The spin gesture wakes it up!
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I want them too
Pretty. Designed well.
But hit your wrist against ONE thing and boom, it’s gone.
With the iPhone, iPod, and iPad, you’re not generally smacking your head around into objects.
I want them too ^_^