Eric Migicovsky, the creator of the original Pebble Smartwatch, says it was always difficult to design a device that works with Apple’s iPhone, but said “things have actually gotten worse lately”.
“You have become more restrictive! If you could believe it,” said Migicovsky Assets. “You have removed the ability to make the hack with which we have sent Pebble SMS to iOS.”
Migicovsky announced Two new Pebble watches This week, the first new watches that have been using Pebble Branding for eight years. Pebble if you forgot collected more than 10 million US dollars of over 68,000 different Kickstarter supporters 2012 for his first smartwatch, which was the most financed project in Kickstarter’s story at that time. Fitbit acquired assets of Pebble At the end of 2016, after the company had become insolvent, everything went Google If the search giant Bought Fitbit for 2.1 billion US dollars in 2021. Google Agree on open source The code that started the original Pebble software at the beginning of this year and paved the way for new watches.
But while Migicovsky says that mass production for the new Pebble watches will increase “later this year”, he made it clear that you shouldn’t buy this watch if you want to compare it to an Apple Watch.
“I would like to set the expectations accordingly,” wrote Migicovsky in A Blog post this week. “We will create a good app for iOS, but be prepared – there is no way for us to support all functions that Apple Watch can access.”
Migicovsky made a cloth list of things available that either “harder or impossible” for smartwatches from third-party providers, every smartwatch that has not been made by Apple-if you try to work with an iPhone. In particular, you cannot write an SMS, answer notifications or mark actions as “completely”. If you either deliberately or accidentally close the Pebble app on iOS, your Pebble clock cannot speak to the app -or even with the Internet. This extends to the clock’s ability to work with other iOS apps: it just doesn’t work.
“Apple claims that their restrictions for competitors only affect security, privacy, better experience, etc. etc.
“I personally do not agree – you clearly use your market power to include consumers into their walled ecosystem.
Migicovsky is not alone in his criticism of Apple and his not alone so -called “walled garden”, At the same time, this is one of Apple’s strongest sales arguments among consumers, but also its split features among third -party developers. Like large companies SpotifyPresent AdobeAnd Epic gameslike independent developers Marco Armment And Steve Troughton-Smithhave criticized Apple’s inconsistency when it comes to approving apps for the App Store, and the inequality that exists between applications from third -party providers and Apple’s own offers.
Migicovsky complained that apps on the iPhone on the iPhone to be able to be able to install apps or updates outside the official App Store-because this means that “every update runs the risk that a random APRETZEATER can make up some BS investigation and block the update.” This is something that many developers have complained about it Over the years.
But because so many Pebble users have an iPhone, Migicovsky said: “We will do a damn iOS app.”
“Apple Systematic for portable developers of third -party providers makes it almost impossible to create a smartwatch experience that is comparable to the Apple Watch experience, ”he wrote in one Blog post.
“I think we are gluts for punishment,” he added.
Apple did not react immediately AssetsInquiries for comments.
The two newly announced Pebble Smartwatches – the Core 2 duo and the Core Time 2 – come this year. The Core 2 duo costs 149 US dollars and begins in July, while the core time costs 2 225 US dollars and shipping begins in December. You can learn and pre -order more about devices. On the Pebble website.
This story was originally on Fortune.com
