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Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 149 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Dude, Migicovsky fucked it up once and already wants back in? He sold the Pebble company and fucked almost all the workers on the way out. They were promised their jobs, that their jobs would be part of the deal. At the last minute they find out, nope, Migicovsky signed off on the deal that left them all without jobs. He walked away with a fat stack of cash.

Then the idiot spun up Beeper and hacked his way into the iMessage system with a workaround which Apple them promptly blocked within a few days. People were paying for this service. What was Migicovsky's plan? None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.

Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services, which means they have always had some weirdly serious access to the chats they're helping you compile all in one place. Initially you basically had to give them way too much control over your Apple account to use the iMessage stuff since they had to have a fleet of Macs for each iMessage user they were supporting.

I'm sorry. I don't care how good it was. Don't let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.

Why do people keep giving this guy good graces when he fucked over his own devs on the way out and didn't even have a plan on how to keep his iMessage system working for paying customers?

Please stop letting this guy fuck up and walk away with the money.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm hoping someone else comes up with a better open source service

[–] coronach 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Than matrix? Me, too. It's so complex, cumbersome, and full of half-functional clients.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thankfully someone invented xmpp omemo way back in the day.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

XMPP is a mess as well.

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