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The future of Rebble


Today we’re excited to announce several developments which will affect the future of Rebble. Let’s get straight into it, starting with the big one…🎉 Google O...

Building a production-ready realtime OS for the Pebble is no small feat, and although we were confident we’d get there given enough time, it was never our ideal path. Rebble has always been about preserving these humble little smartwatches as a little oasis of user-respectful technology in a desert of big corporations trying to sell your attention, and we’re excited to have a legal framework that lets us codify our missions of: educating people about why these are important; using them as a platform to teach embedded systems; preserving the history of this quirky little platform; and building open source software for the public good to keep the dream going long into the future. Without all of you Rebblers who have been entrusting us for the past 8 years to keep the dream of an open-platform user-respectful smartwatch alive, PebbleOS wouldn’t be relevant at all today.

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