Only a small part of the software in use here was written by Rebble. They cloned the Pebble app store originally, but the store has no value by itself. What makes it valuable is the catalog of watchfaces and apps, approximately none of which were built by Rebble. They were originally scraped by Rebble from Pebble, which makes the accusation of scraping here ironic. The software on the watch itself is mostly Pebble software with mostly Core Devices modifications. The phone app was written mostly by Core Devices. By Rebble's own admission using Rebble code only saved Core Devices "a month or two of engineering effort". And the "more restrictive license" they're accused of adding is AGPL, still aggressively open source.
It's also strange to me that the Bluetooth commit they point to before claiming "Rebble paid for the work" was actually written by Liam McLoughlin, a Google and former Fitbit and Pebble engineer. Was Rebble paying a Google engineer?
The android app had stopped working for me a couple of months before the new Pebble came out, so my Old Pebble Time was at EOL, and unusable.
The new Pebble app by Core devices made it work again.
Rebble didn't do that. They were effective only keeping the old devices on life support. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome that Rebble came along and extended the life of our Pebbles. I'm siding slightly more with Eric and Co. than with Rebble.
"Autism spectrum is wide enough to have very different prototypes within it. On one end we have profound autism, representing someone with severe autistic traits who is completely dependent on others for care and has substantial intellectual disability or very limited language ability. At the other end, we have successful nerdy individuals with autistic traits and superior intelligence, often seen in science or academia, à la Sheldon Cooper."
He's just another ableist crank who thinks people with intellectual disabilities who are also autistic are “profoundly” or “severely” autistic. Neither of those are actual diagnostic categories; they were invented by “autism parents” (not autistic parents; parents of autistic children) as a way to exclude everyone except level-3 autistic kids with intellectual disabilities.
Then he throws in the “superior intelligence” nonsense. No. Just no. More ableist BS.
I’m a late-diagnosed “level 1” autistic adult (also ADHD) who works full-time as a network admin. Functioning labels don’t make someone “less autistic”; they just reflect different support needs.
He also brings up BPD. Lots of autistic women get misdiagnosed with BPD. My wife was one of them. Once I dug into how autism presents differently in men vs. women, it became obvious she checked all the boxes. She later got an autism diagnosis too.